Chance At Video Editing

On Wednesday after traveling on the bus home I decided to document my journey from the bus to my house via video. In my spare time I love to sit down, relax and watch/catch up on some of my subscriptions on YouTube. One of my favourite things to watch is people's daily vlogs. I love the fact that you're able to have an insight into someone else's life, someone who you've probably never met and lives miles away. It does give me comfort seeing how other people live their life, as weird as it may sound but it makes me think "Oh, I can achieve/do that too if I try!" or "Oh! I can relate to that!".

One of my favourites is The Sacconejolys. I discovered them back in early 2012 and have been hooked ever since. At the time I started watching them they were just married, had two dogs, were living in Cork and were waiting on the arrival of their baby girl Emilia. I have just finished watching their vlog for today and they now live outside London, with their six dogs, six month old baby boy Eduardo and two year old girl Emilia. Through those two years they've never failed to upload a video of their day which amazes me! I love the idea of recording everyday of your life, seeing the subtle changes. It's been amazing seeing the whole of Emilia and Euduardo's life so far, seeing their firsts and just seeing them grow up day by day. Also how their making a living from documenting their life amazes me! 

I remember back in 2012 I commented on one of their videos saying something along the lines of "Your life looks amazing, I wish mine was like yours" (looking back I totally disagree with what I wrote! There's no point wishing for someone else's life!). He then replied with something like "Don't worry, everything is better in the future!" which did give me some sort of hope. I can understand why some people get annoyed at people who expose their life on social media,  when people start thinking 'who cares what they do'. I can say I do agree on that.

I'm starting to go off the topic of this post but it's one of the small reasons why I actually decided to create this video. I've got to admit that in the past I've tried to create videos but I just ended up never uploaded them due to being too scared, so I decided to give it another go. Last night I uploaded the footage and started editing it on Youtube. It was around 3:50 minutes long but since the music was at a specific length I tried to cut it down as much as I could so no parts of the video were hanging off at the end. I love the idea of vlogging but the fact that it attracts attention holding a camera to your face constantly does frighten me a bit, especially when I'm surrounded by people I recognize from places etc. After writing that sentence I've started to think about what Niall told me in the one-to-one meeting yesterday. Him telling me to just do it, whatever you've started doing, you've started it for a reason and obviously because you want to so why dilute it to fit in to be accepted by other people. I just need to have belief in myself with the things I create so without further ado here it is.