Monday, October 25, 2010

The Process of a Guitar Lesson Video

When I started my digital story, I knew I was going to be recording myself a lot, so my first problem was getting a camera that was able to track me with out any noticeable lag. I bought a web cam and that proved to be troublesome as when I played my guitar the sound would come a second earlier, which is horrible. It made  the videos all awkward, but thankfully I had a solution! My wonderful PlayStation 3 had a wonderful accessory called the PlayStation Eye which had a wonderful frame rate good enough to produce my videos and record my audio as well.

With the camera set, I decided that the easiest way to post them was YouTube. My videos take about an hour to be uploaded to YouTube. YouTube is the perfect choice because I can always embed them or post them anywhere. I really don't use a video editor except for the Windows Live Movie Maker, which just helps me trim the video but thats about it for the editing process.

The hardest part of the guitar lessons is the information. I want to make sure my information is exact because I don't want anyone to go to Guitar Center and have an awkward experience because they don't know anything about their guitars. Also with my lessons, I give the viewer some of my experiences with the guitar such as tuning and the pinky problem of the beginner. When I make my videos, I usually plan to stick to one topic unless its very short and then I would include another part with the video.

My next video is actually going to delve into the musician side of the guitarist such as tabs and music sheet notes and other basics such as beats.

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