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so guys welcome back to the second part of our tips and techniques for content producers thank you so much for tuning in on this last episode and for for this part we're going to be finishing up with something that I think is very important to discuss competition and who do you learn from or how can you make yourself go further and involve even faster and do different things so competition is good in multiple ways first of all it allows you to be dynamic it sort of not allows you but it almost forces you to be dynamic and evolve into certain things do things differently and you have to make those connections you have to look up to certain people whose content you appreciate and you like and you have to sort of try and create something that is simple like out of their style and make it your own style so there are a couple of youtubers that I follow Phil a bloom chase jarvis and dave dugdale are my three camera guys then developed fantastic content in both educational technical and creative all the same time and it helps me to see what they're doing and how you're capturing things and translate that into our technology reviews and our coverage and that's why when when we're doing certain things that as simple as a case review you've seen all types of crazy angles and crazy shots on lighting setups that look fantastic on video but they're really basic in terms of just knowing where to position the lighting stuff and throw this series we did lighting subs so make sure to check it out within filming tips and techniques so make sure to check that out as well and all that really encompasses into your own style and looking up to seeing what you like from other people and you know borrowing some of that and making it your own I don't mean to say plagiarize their style I don't mean to say plagiarize the exact same shots but take that into account when you make your content because that is how you are going to try to evolve and try to be unique and try to be unique with each single video not the entire video but try to do at least one thing differently new with single production now i agree competition is good as a matter of fact back when I worked in Microsoft I used to use the slogan competition breeds excellence and i would say that all the time in meetings mainly just because it sounded bitch and bitch and but the reason why I really said it is when you're competing with somebody in competition doesn't mean that you're trying to trying to undermine somebody you're trying to hurt them get to get that out of your head success by hurting another person is just stupid that's the wrong way to do it there's a couple YouTube channels that I'm not going to mention that basically thrive on the destruction of other channels and other people and those kid that's not the way to grow that's not a legacy that's not something that's sustainable and ultimately in the end it's just going to get you into a lot of trouble so the way that I look at competition is what I look up to somebody who's a larger channel to me or somebody who's doing content that I want to do and I feel like I can do something different in that territory and I can really really create that same kind of draw that they've produced by being unique and doing it my own way now from the tech world something that is more relatable to what hi reckonings does is obviously we have this amazing community of youtubers that share this audience this amazing audience and I say share because competition in itself is awesome but you also have to remember that we are all part of the community so we all kind of feed off each other and we all seeing what's working with different YouTube channels and what I would do sometimes is go into certain channel that I have seemed to thrive recently like awesomesauce network kyle has amazing comedy and seeing what he's doing right and actually that's helping me to seeing what people are what what is popular and what is getting the most engagement and part of that is obviously his character he is putting out his personality to the table but also he is releasing content and that is actually very good tip for everybody is to release content that people want to watch in doing so make sure not to forget and not to derail from your initial objective is to is to portray your character and to do things that you want to showcase I also look up to TLD because his content is so crispy man you could cut glass without crispy footage taking some techniques looking at the footage and looking at how he is able to achieve something that is so beautiful and tried to recreate your own then you can notice little things if you look at the footage for example to try to do this next time if you are content producer and you like what you see pause the video try to count the light sources and try to seeing how the lighting is positioned seeing what the camera is in relation to the subject and try to visualize how that scene was first come you up the composition is like and how that scene was first put together in order to create something that would not create but in order to realize how those things were were shot and trying to recreate that sort of similar composition later on for your own video another took youtubers that I follow for the technology side of things is obviously Linus is entertaining and educational as well there's a lot of things you can learn from people even though if it's not completely relatable but we our content sort of overlaps quite a bit when it comes to hardware and there's obviously Jerry thank you so much for coming on to this episode but his content is so personal and so it actually has helped me to develop to just sit in from the camera and talk to you about my techniques about my style and throw these episodes I think that I have grown to to how to control myself around the camera what to say and how not to just completely blank out and that all comes with practice and as you watch these other youtubers you can take little things here and there and try to make sure that you can do a better job for the future obviously regardless of the content and so for all you guys leave your thoughts in the comments below of who you follow in terms of trying to learn from them who is your sort of role model in terms of all the aspects creative aspects personal aspect second you know informational aspects and all those things because that's the beauty of the video community is that we have so much variety so you can really take anything from anybody and make it your own so there's quite a few people that I look up to in the YouTube community too many to list right here because I'm sure my long-winded responses of art blown Dimitri's video way out of proportion i'm sorry about that bro but you know me I talk a lot so the top guys I would say influenced me would be at number one spot and it's going to totally just give him a big ego boost in the head would be JS to sense now Jays to sense is a technology channel where he reviews mainly computer components does computer builds in his in his expertise is in water liquid cooling right and I found his channel early on when his channel was actually larger than mine he had more views he had more subscribers and I really loved his quality of video and once I finally contacted him I came to learn that he was achieving that quality of video on a very cheap DSLR camera nothing special for audio all of his lighting was like Home Depot cans with CFLs in it and paper draped over it and it looked absolutely stunning and the first thing I learned from him was that the quality or video isn't always determined by your equipment I was shooting on a canon 5d mark 3 which is a 3500 dollar body another thousand dollars in lands h4n audio interface shock and Mike and I was not producing the same quality that he was and he was the one that taught me that setting up lighting and doing stuff correctly and and and I still haven't picked up on some of the stuff like smooth b-roll people love smooth b-roll I don't know does I still hand-holding I'm all over the place like I just drank a couple starbucks before I do it but but I've learned a lot from him in that respect that you don't need a lot of money to actually produce good quality video but the goal is you do want to produce good quality video you want to be well lit you want to have good audio right now we're in a lavalier mic so that you can hear me really well when I'm all animated moving my head around with the shotgun mic that just didn't work very well because I was always facing in different directions but it's making all these small little changes and learning how to master the tools that you have that they really up your game and now now I'm a larger channel than Jay I mean I think I'm like a hundred thousand subscribers ahead of him or something like that you know because clearly I've got the better channel actually he'd probably argue that just cuz i got into 3d printing when that was the huge craze and nobody else was doing it and i'll probably agree with them that's probably the biggest draw to my channel even today is the 3d printing or or things that are combined to it and it's kind of like the starting point for a lot of new people coming into my channel so i'll totally agree with that now the second person might surprise you guys in actually helped me a lot and that's Linus Sebastian from Linus tech tips uh he's actually a really cool guy I see a lot of comments about him where people get mad because he makes such short videos now and he does he does a lot of things that people don't necessarily agree with but the thing that I you have to realize from my perspective is I've watched lioness grow a lie I mean more than double his size since I'm God / I'm more like tripled his size since I started watching him and he's actually talked to me on many occasions offline where you guys haven't seen it gave me pointers on how to do things for my channel and at one point he may have even lured you know alluded to me coming and working for them but i'm not i'm not a canadian so so that that didn't work out but anyways he has actually been a great mentor he's given me a lot of really good advice and even despite all the hate that comes in from the community and people that really really try to tackle him back to a simpler version of himself he still just keeps on storming forward now his format isn't necessarily for me you know a lot of what he does is very very professional very very scripted very very well set up he has employees he has editors he has a building he has those things he runs his youtube is a business and I have huge respect for that and he is highly successful at it now my goals with YouTube are completely different but that doesn't mean that he wasn't a huge influence on me and gave me a big confidence boost that I needed now the last person I'm going to mention here is going to be Logan from tech syndicate and the reason why Logan's on there and it's kind of funny because tech syndicate is such a different channel than like linus tech tips jzu says I mean they're all over the place right I'm picking these from weird spectrums but the reason why I picked Logan is because tech syndicate itself is awesome in that they don't care about anything when you look at them it's not about the money it's not about the business it's not about really anything they just want to do what they want to do enjoy what they want to enjoy say what they want to say and they really don't give a shit about what anybody else thinks and I I have huge respect for that because they could sell out any time and just grow grow grow grow grow push the business grow at hire more people do more things but they don't they stay true to their original mission statement and they just keep on plugging forward and plus it's a it's an awesome group of guys not just Logan I mean you got Davis cane you got Wendell so so many guys that are just super super intelligent and brings something unique to the table and I've really liked that and I and I love talking to Logan every chance I get because you talked to the guy for like ten minutes and you get the vibe that he's the same guy for the most part that you see on camera and he's all about just doing what he's excited about he's not about doing what brings in the most money he's doing about what he's excited about and he's actually really good at it between those three they're probably about fifty percent of my overall influence and then there's probably a hundred other channels that are responsible for the rest I mean like tested and the ben heck show and stuff like that I mean there are a ton of channels out there that have have contributed to the influence that makes what you see here the barnacles nerdgasm but honestly guys without any kind of competition we wouldn't really have any reason to keep getting better I mean after a while besting yourself isn't that interesting it's always fun to actually have other people that you're in competition with like even Jays two cents and I mean we we compete on a fun level where we'll share statistics and rub each other back and forth whenever we have a success and stuff like that and it keeps things really interesting again it doesn't come from a hateful place it's designed to motivate both parties please don't ever go and try to make a channel and try to become famous by doing gossip putting other people down being destructive trying to become famous by trying to negatively associate yourself with larger people to force them they engage you I see this happen all the time and and it seriously just makes me want to cry that there's people out there that they're so focused on being famous and they want to be somebody to the world that they're willing to compromise their entire morality to do it and damaged a lot of people in the process so don't be one of those guys now if you guys are wondering this entire video is shot on a sony FDR a x33 camcorder that costs about a thousand dollars 4k capable I have a hooked up to a Sennheiser microphone setup that's actually a pretty expensive set up but right now I'm shooting at a manual f-18 aperture it's tracking my face and doing autofocus so much easier than using a deal DSLR and the reason why I'm telling you guys this is because if you're getting into YouTube don't think you have to go get a super high-end camera you don't need a red cinema you don't need black magic you don't need a canon 5d mark 3 with a full-frame sensor and a two-thousand-dollar lens you just don't do your research it's YouTube that we're not we're not producing video for the imax theater here so definitely don't spend a massive amount of money on equipment first and then hope to be successful use what you have use your cell phone if it's got a good camera use a wired lav mic that cost twenty bucks use the minimal amount of hardware that you can to find yourself figure out if you like it and find that audience that you're looking for once you do that then start the improvements in building I've seen a lot of youtubers actually go out at the wrong way and they go out and buy really expensive camera mikes big studio lights and everything like that and then they find out that they're just not comfortable in front of the camera or they get frustrated when they don't draw an audience really quickly because like me it's taken me six years to get to where I'm at guys it's not like overnight I just became huge I mean most of my growth has happened over the last two years but it's not like you're just going to create a youtube channel and become famous I mean unless you pour gasoline on yourself and run around naked on fire and an intersection somewhere and somehow survive then you'll probably be viral and and then you'll be you'll be famous for that one video which brings me to another really quick point and that is don't try to become viral the thing is well actually let me rephrase that you do want viral videos if you can achieve them but don't make that your goal to create a viral video because what happens you'll create a viral video you'll bring in a ton of subscribers will bringing a ton of views on that video and then nobody else will watch any of your other stuff if it's not as good or as compelling as that video and it'll become very very frustrating TV I prefer to go the route of slow and steady wins the race have that nice steady positive growth and have each video meet the expectations of the majority of your audience and it will as long as that audience was brought to you by you being yourself because it's hard to not be yourself and being yourself as I said before and as jerry has explained is crucial in order to develop your own relationship with the camera your own relationship with the audience to make sure to follow that advice to heart hey Demetri thanks again for inviting me to be in this video the last thing I want to say is guys just like I'm doing right here with Demetri collaborations are also there very important I didn't talk about those very early on but try to collaborate with other people that are similar to you that have like-minded goals now I'm not saying go hit up PewDiePie and try to get a collaboration be realistic try to find channels that are in your in your same size and in your same genre but don't be afraid to reach out and try to collaborate with people where it makes sense because collaborations help both people involved if done properly and honestly it can give you a huge boost in subscribership now don't confuse collaboration with shout out you don't want shoutouts everybody asks for those in my video if I say hey ya go follow at Shane blah blah blah on Twitter five people will go follow you though three of them are trulia and then four of them will leave it's just it's just how it works a shout-out doesn't give any kind of tangible proof that you're worth watching or you're worth following what you want to do is find people that will actually collaborate with you people that will showcase your abilities people that will merge their abilities and your abilities together towards a common goal those are the kind of collaborations that you're looking for and if somebody doesn't want to collaborate don't get mad about it move on because a collaboration needs to be something that both people are mutually and equally excited about if one person super excited and other guys like me trust me it's going to show in the video all right take it easy Dimitri so thank you so much to Jerry a key Barney Cleese nerdgasm for joining on this episode part to make sure to check out part 1 in the description and as always guys this is all about providing that insight for all the content creators that might benefit from all this information and if you have any suggestions on who we should bring in next for the next future behind the scenes series let us know in the comments below is always thank you so much for watching don't forget to subscribe for more similar content remember behind the scenes on how to videos every Friday make sure to subscribe and follow I'm Dimitri with Hera canucks thanks so much for watching we'll see you in the next one