How to make a YouTube gaming channel
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This is a school (Creative Multimedia) project. We have to make a storyboard that we might of might not actually make.
Storyboard Text
- 1) Blurry Opening Title Screen
- How to start a YouTube Gaming Channel
- 2) Narrator "Professor Gary Thunder" Walks on
- 3) Gary speaks
- MEDIUM CLOSE UP
- 1. Cutting on the action of siting down, shot 4 starts with siting on the chair. 2. Putting on headphones
- 4) "Camera in computer" shot
- 5) Creating the YouTube Channel
- 6) Creating the channel art
- 7) Creating the intro
- 8,9,10) Getting recording software
- 11) Finding a game to play
- 12) Finding a game to play - second shot
- SHOT FROM THE RIGHT Cuts on the action of turning around - graphics come on screen when they are talked about
- Starts with an opening that fades in, then the title fades in, and then out. The music also starts here. The background is faded wile the title is on screen.
- 13) Starting the video
- LONG SHOT
- Our fateful narrator enters the scene from the right. His name is Professor Gary Thunder.
- 14) Ending the video
- LONG SHOT
- GARY: "Hello all! My name is Professor Gary Thunder, and today i'm going to teach you how to start your very own YouTube gaming channel! Lets get started!" Gary turns around and walks towards the computer ans sits in the chair.
- 15) Quick tip
- MEDIUM CLOSE UP
- 16) Quick tip - part 2
- Shot 4 cuts to shot 5 on the action of putting head phones on, if it looks good.
- MEDIUM SHOT
- GARY: "First we need to create a YouTube channel, and this is were we pick our username, be sure to be as uncreative as possible, and include elements from the game you want to play to limit your channels potential." -- SHOT IRREVERENT, IT IS CAPTURED ON THE COMPUTER --
- 17,18,19) Editing
- GARY: "Now that you have a channel,your going to need to get some channel art. Simply search "free YouTube channel art creator" on Google, these are always of high quality!"
- 20) Uploading
- GARY: "All the popular You Tubers have engaging intros at the beginning of there videos. Search "free YouTube intro maker" on Google, and make sure to pair your into with weak, shitty dubstep."
- 21) Settings
- GARY: In order to record videos, we need some software to record our screen! Quality free software include: Bandicam, ezvid, and dxtory!"
- 22) Settings - part 2
- Cutting on the action of turning around
- GARY: "Now we need a game to play, make sure to pick something that people have not made a lot of videos about,"
- 23) Promotion
- FRONT SHOT CAMERA PERSPECTIVE FROM THE COMPUTER
- MEDIUM SHOT
- GARY: "like Minecraft and Call of Duty!"
- 24) Promotion - part 2
- MEDIUM CLOSE UP
- GARY: When you start the video, say the phrase "Hey guys", then tell your massive audience what your going to be doing in this video."
- GARY: "At the end of the video you should beg for likes, comments, and for people to subscribe to your channel. People will really appreciate this and will be sure to do what you say if your voice is annoying enough."
- GARY: "Here is a quick tip. When making your video, use the built-in microphone on your computer."
- Zoom in on the microphone
- GARY: "This microphone i'm using to make this video? No... trust me just use the built in one."
- MEDIUM SHOT
- GARY: "We have to edit, use Windows Movie Maker, Loopster, or Picasa. Adobe Photoshop, Sony Vegas, and Lightworks are stupid programs and you should not use them."
- GARY: "Here is the easy part, uploading. If it takes 50 hours to upload, you know your doing it right!"
- GARY: "Set a description, tags, category,"
- MEDIUM SHOT
- Random boxes with settings pop up
- GARY: " and other technical bits that you can figure out yourself; I don't have time for this."
- (Keyboard would be here)
- CLOSE UP HIGH ANGLE
- GARY: "If you want to go far on YouTube, you need to promote yourself. Forget about Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, RSS, and Tumblr, "
- I am a desk
- Icons display on screen when they are talked about
- MEDIUM LONG SHOT
- Gary: "do all of your promotions on Google+!"
- Green thumbs up flashes
- MEDIUM CLOSE UP (Same as shot 12)
- 25) Wait
- 26) Respond to Comments
- Scrolling comments and a graphic of hitting the delete button, if of course I can figure out how to do so.
- 27) Make more videos
- MEDIUM CLOSE UP
- 28) Look at these YouTubers!
- VanossGaming Subscribers: 15,024,523 Views: 3,466,130,336
- Pewdipie Subscribers: 40,653,749 Views: 10,610,148,463
- 29) Look at these YouTubers! - part 2
- Earnings per year: $858.2K - $13.7M
- Earnings per year: $1.3M - $20.8M
- 30) Look at these YouTubers! (Part 2)
- LDShadowLady Subscribers: 1,481,912 Views: 371,397,192 Earnings per year: $157.3K - $2.5M
- 31) Look at these YouTubers! (Part 2) - part 2
- MunchingBrotato Subscribers: 849,174 Views: 68,963,635 Earnings per year: $3.7K - $58.7K
- 32) Now look at you
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- xX_SpiderSlayer465_Xx Subscribers: 12 Views: 234 Earnings per year: $0.00 - $0.09
- 33) Now look at you - part 2
- 34) End
- MEDIUM CLOSE UP (Same as 12, and 24)
- Gary: "Wait for your amazing video to be enjoyed by tens of thousands of people, or hundreds of thousand, or possibly millions!"
- Gary: "Your bound to get lots of constructive and supportive comments, a true YouTuber responds to comments for viewer engagement, or deletes all of the bad ones. That works too."
- Zooming on Gary, there is a narration over Gary, as he is not talking himself. Gary has a "screaming internally" look about him as the comments scroll past him.
- MEDIUM SHOT
- Gary: "You can't have a channel with just one video, so make more videos and keep to a unregular, sporadic uploading schedule."
- Gary: "Congrats, your now a YouTube gamer! A member of an elite group of individuals...
- MEDIUM SHOT
- * Estimated earnings by Social Blade, www.socialblade.com Does not include sponsorships
- Gary: "who make more money then you for simply playing video games. "
- CLOSE UP
- Gary: "I mean damn, this gaming channel is pretty medium by YouTube standards, and shes making bank!"
- MEDIUM CLOSE UP
- * Estimated earnings by Social Blade, www.socialblade.com Does not include sponsorships
- Gary: "OH, AND LOOK AT HIM! He is from Cape Breton and is a pretty big YouTuber, meaning fame can come from anywhere, no matter how small!"
- MEDIUM LONG SHOT Slow zoom back to MEDIUM CLOSE UP
- Gary: " Now lets look at your channel... well... 10 months into your career and this is what you have accomplished..."
- * Estimated earnings by Social Blade, www.socialblade.com Does not include sponsorships But at this point, who really cares?
- Gary: " I guess the YouTube game isn't for everyone."
- MEDIUM SHOT
- Gary: "Well, that just about does it for this video on HOW TO START A YOUTUBE GAMING CHANNEL!"
- Shot from right, cuts from 33 to 34 on the action of turning around.
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