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PROFESSOR: So on my
way back from class,

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I had time to reflect on
today's lessons, I guess.

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And to demonstrate how you
can vlog about it instead

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of writing a written post and
to practice being on camera,

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I decided to make
a vlog instead.

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Loosely edited,
because I still forget

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what I'm going to say
sometimes, but I'll

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keep it mostly raw footage.

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So the first main thing
I was thinking about

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after talking with Elizabeth
and a couple of you after class

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and re-reading the comments
on the annotated articles,

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especially those on
the Hank Green one,

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is that I was thinking about
how online video is a thing now.

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And people don't necessarily
always understand

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how much of a thing
online video is.

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A lot of you in
the class right now

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seem to be coming from the
perspective of scientists

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learning how to
communicate better.

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And video is one method
of communicating ideas

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to a larger population.

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And it's great,
and it's wonderful,

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and I'm clearly very in
favor of using videos

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to spread information.

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A lot of people who are getting
into online video in the more

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modern day are people who have
worked on productions, like TVs

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and film, and come from a
different medium background.

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And they're trying to
transition over to online video

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and taking practices with
them from those mediums,

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like how to shoot
correctly, how to edit,

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how to compose a script,
how to write a script,

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how to edit a script,
how to engage an audience

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from those other mediums,
which is all fine and good,

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because it's helping
online video evolve.

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But then there are
people like myself,

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who watched online video,
and grew up with it,

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and started watching YouTube
and the cheesy vloggers

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as soon as they started.

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And my editing practices--
the first time I ever filmed

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and edited a vlog, it was
filled with all these jump cuts

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and pauses for comedic timing
just because this is the way

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that people like
Charlie McDonald,

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like the original Vlog
Brothers channels,

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would frame and put
together their videos.

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You would never see a
movie edited with jump cuts

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like these or a professional
documentary like this,

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but this editing
style has evolved

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because of online
video, which is

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kind of cool and kind of crazy.

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It just become a way for people
to start thinking about things

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like editing and how
to frame yourself

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within whatever-- a webcam or
a slightly high quality camera

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can hold.

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And thinking about your
background as your room,

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as something that demonstrates
who you are-- it just so

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happens that my desk faces
opposite from my wall posters.

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And because people
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these different
perspectives, it makes

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establishing a best practices
type thing even harder.

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Because online video, maybe
five years ago, no one

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would think to use it for
education, specifically

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for education, and
channels like Sci Show

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and Minute Physics and the
Brain Scoop wouldn't exist.

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But now they're being
watched and things like that.

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And so it's constantly evolving.

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People are constantly
trying to find ways

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to make it more interesting.

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And so it's hard to try and
describe how to do something

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when everyone's making
it up as they go.

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The second thing I
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was getting overwhelmed at
the beginning of the class.

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This class can seem
scary at first,

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especially because we're
throwing a lot of new things

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at you.

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A lot of you have not
uploaded videos before,

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or are relatively
unfamiliar with video making

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and relatively unfamiliar
with platforms like Tumblr

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and things like that.

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And all of a sudden, you're
tossing around ideas,

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and it's really
scary to pick an idea

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that you could
conceivably commit

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to for an entire month or three
weeks of your life developing

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and fleshing out
and building upon.

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And especially today,
it's fun to bounce around

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ideas off of sixth graders,
to have conversations,

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to see what excites people,
and excites your peers,

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and excites them.

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But ultimately, you
have to start somewhere,

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to pick an idea, run
with it, make something.

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And even if that thing
is kind of crappy--

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even if your first draft of
your script is kind of crappy,

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as scripts tend to be the
first time you write one ever,

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and that's OK.

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Because it's all about revision.

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That's one of the wonderful
things about digital media,

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is that you can
always re-record,

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you can always re-dub, you can
always rewrite and re-film.

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So I think the biggest
thing going in tomorrow

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is just getting something you
can work with, getting ideas

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concretely down on paper,
which sometimes can be

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a really hard step in itself.

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Because you want your
idea to be perfect,

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and you know what good
content looks like.

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But it's very different knowing
what good content looks like

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and getting to that level where
you can produce good content.

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And that gap is really
frustrating sometimes.

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Yeah.

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That's all I have to say.