| Re: Renforums youtube: add your gameplay! [message #493404 is a reply to message #493401] |
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Xylaquin
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PwnCall I'm particularly interested in this idea.
I personally think the forum's YT channel should come across almost as if it's the official Renegade channel. By making the videos polished, we would make it accessible, clear and thee definitive channel for the game.
So as mentioned previously, my suggestion would be to avoid cringe YouTuber things like:- Thumbnails with presenters in them
- Clickbait titles/shocked faces
- Having an intro/"What's up guys, my name's Derek and today I'm gonna show you how to plant a beacon"
- Prompting viewers to like/subscribe/leave a comment etc.
Instead...- Do have custom thumbnails, relative to the video subject
- Simple titles
- Cut straight to the content. People already know what the video's going to be about from the title, so just show us.
- At the end show the URL to the forums. Put it in the description too.
Further things since posting the above a few days back:- Personally I'd vote against having webcam footage/overlay, there's no need to see the narrator and you want the audience to be looking at the subject of the video, not the presenter.
- The idea of having short/30 second videos is good, as nowadays attention spans are short and reels are all the rage. I also can't shake the feeling that the discovery algorithm is different for reels, which might work in our favour.
- Perhaps for the YouTube channel, use the forum logo as the channel banner and in the video at the end with the URL.
I plan to make video versions of the guides I've posted on Steam
The goal is to get new players up to speed with Ren's multiplayer.
I've thought about going spectator in RenCorner and collecting footage of various aspects of gameplay, but I'm kinda thinking it might be easier and quicker to get a bunch of forum members/players to join a private server and act out the specific things needed. Would anyone be interested?
Once edited, the main videos would be in 1080 res, but I think I might also make portrait versions tailored for phones.
Getting gameplay footage
Apart from this, I use the Windows' inbuilt screen recording, the Game Bar (Windows key + G) whilst playing Renegade to record video and after a good evening of playing the next evening you can edit the best bits of footage you get into an action/amusing video. I used ClipChamp to edit that together, but if folk here don't have the time I'm sure those involved with the channel would love to collate your funny/cool moments.
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