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JOSHUA CHEONG: Hi.

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Joshua here.

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So excited to do is vlog.

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This is kind of
like my first time

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doing a vlog in front of
a real public audience,

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and so some of the
things I really

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liked about yesterday
was-- I mean,

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honestly, yesterday was one of
the most mind-blowing sessions.

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I got so many simple, yet I
can see how very effective

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videoing doing, and being a
talk show host techniques.

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And I see how that can
connect to my life.

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Yeah, the first one I
thought that really stood out

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for me was the one on looking
at a member of your audience

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like your family member or a
professor behind the camera,

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so it's not just a camera.

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So I mean, yeah.

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But the funny thing is
speaking of this tip,

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I kind of forgot
it, and I'm looking

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at the camera thinking of the
camera, so it's a bit ironic.

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I guess many of these things
require a lot of practice,

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and that's kind of
like what I need

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to do and get out of
the zone of thinking

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that I'm in front of a camera.

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I mean, usually, every
time you press a camera,

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there's this red button.

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Sometimes I think maybe if
that red button was eliminated,

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a lot of things
would be different.

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Yeah, so I mean, I guess
one of my questions

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I would like to ask as well
is what kind of face, what

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would be an appropriate
member of the audience

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that I would like to put there?

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I mean, if I put
someone who is very

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respectable like my
professor, then I

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guess the whole tone,
tonality of my voice,

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the whole choice
of my vocabulary

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would try to be more serious.

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But at the same time, I
guess if I put someone

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like a two-year-old in my
imagination in front of camera,

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I probably would not talk
in the same tonality.

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So I guess what would
an appropriate member

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of the audience be in
front of the camera?

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Well, some of the other tips
I got that really stood out

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for me was-- yeah.

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For example, the
idea of doing it

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in a ridiculous way,
so basically, George

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had us come in front
of the camera--

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not the camera but in
front of the screen--

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and read off the script, and
some interesting things is he

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tried his best to tell us to
say it in many different ways.

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But although we
tried, we kind of like

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said it almost the same way.

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And I kind of
realized it myself.

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And the funny thing
about that is, well,

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I guess somehow
wired in our brain

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to think that there is probably
the best way of saying it,

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and then after we have
adapted that way of saying it,

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we find it very difficult
to draw away from that.

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But the key element in this
process that stood out for me

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is saying repeat.

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Oh, that's good.

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Oh, you recorded that well.

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But can we do that again?

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And you would do it like
over and over and over again,

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but every time we do it,
you want to be different.

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And so stepping out of your
zone and doing something crazy

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would help you and aid you
in the process of coming up

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with variations
of ways to say it.

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And I think the
beauty of recording

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is probably that you
could get the best version

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and use the best
version in your edits,

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rather than in a
live performance

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when you only have
one shot, and it's

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kind of like if you
don't make it, it's over.

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So I guess it's a
bit different then.

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But at the same
time, it gives me

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that understanding of like
you have to keep repeating.

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It's kind of like
doing many things.

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If you do well at, you probably
have to repeat many times

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to get it done right.

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And I guess it's
no different here.

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Yeah, and overall, I think
it's a very, very good learning

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experience that I have.

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I'm actually super excited, and
I've always come to ask myself,

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why did I choose to make videos?

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Why video rather than
like anything else?

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And I've thought that,
well, videos in education

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are not just videos to educate,
but it's also to excite.

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And that's what I want to bring.

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And my view is I don't see
that it should just be about,

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oh, I learned something.

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Oh, I'm just becoming smart.

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But rather, it
should be something

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that, oh, my goodness, I didn't
believe I didn't know this.

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It's so simple, but now
that I've watched it,

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I used to think
it was difficult,

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but now I know it's so simple.

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And I know that I can do it.

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It's kind of like being
enlightened in some sense.

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Or rather, in another
sense, it could

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be seeing something
really normal

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and turning it extraordinary
or seeing something really

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extraordinary, which I always
thought was super complicated,

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and only a small
group of people could

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do-- taking that and
turning it into something

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that I can understand.

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I feel that that's quite
empowering for anyone.

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And that's kind of I
want to achieve here,

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and I hope I do with my pictures
and my video eventually.

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I guess one of the hardest
things I have with the script

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and with the way
I want to share is

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that programming and
software algorithms are

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very conceptual in
nature, and they

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don't have a physical form.

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So usually, I have to
choose like analogies

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that would be physical in
nature that represent them.

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And one of the key points
I learned about how do I

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avoid sounding like I'm
dumbing down my audience,

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and I found that the
tips that Josh gave

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was to give them a sort of a
reply, something like preparing

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them to understand that this is
the really simple way of saying

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it.

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So you would say something
like, this the really simple way

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of saying it, but
basically, blah, blah, blah.

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So that kind of like helps
you prep the audience

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to understand that you're giving
the simpler picture instead

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of something more
complicated, I guess.

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And I look forward to
the next few lessons,

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and it will be interesting.