Real
Estate Videos
When I heard
about the power of video for real estate, I knew I had to begin publishing
videos about real estate. Having now been publishing real estate videos for over a half-year, I still have more coming up.
That, in
itself, is not particularly noteworthy.
Surprisingly,
however, I received a lot of compliments on my videos. What I hadn’t realized
was that not a lot of other real estate agents were publishing videos, at least
not here in Cincinnati.
And Also
JewishDrinking.com podcasts
While that
felt good to receive the compliments, I also began to work more on
video-editing due to my video and podcasting for JewishDrinking.com.
A Few
with Drew
A big jump
for me recently, however, has been doing my daily Coronatine project, “A Fewwith Drew”, a [nearly] daily video of 3-5 minutes speaking to the camera about
a few topics and possibly with drink in hand (whether coffee, tea, beer,
whiskey, etc.). Inspired by Gary Vaynerchuk’s “Tea with Gary Vee”, I decided to
embark on this project, but I knew I didn’t have the time nor did I have the
energy to engage in another video project involving editing. So I decided to do
something I’ve never done with video-production and publishing: no editing.
Background
For some
context, I began playing around with publishing videos in 2008-2009 (which also
happened to be my final year in rabbinical school), on a few topics, but also
did a weekly vlog post for 26 weeks (yes, a full half-year). (Here's one of my final ones, following that 26th weekly vlog post.)
(While I had a lot of enjoyment as a kid
recording videos of various things (including videos of me shooting hoops and
playing other sports with friends (I remember having a great clip of a really
awesome badminton move with a friend)), there wasn’t a lot of editing, although
I did sometimes hook up two VHRs and copy over certain scenes from one VHS
casette to the other one (such as that badminton highlight), but none of that
was in the era of publishing to the Internet.)
Following
that vlogging experience, I then did my 30 Videos of 30 Drinks by a 30-Year
Old, which was a cool project, which also got me an article write-up in an
Israeli newspaper, but the most important takeaway for me from it was thinkingabout my speaking to the camera, especially in seeking to decrease or even
eliminating filler words (e.g. eh, um, uh) from my speech, even if just
on-camera. Of course, it also helped my video-editing skills through practice.
At this
point, when people ask which software I used for video-editing, the answer is
simple: I used Windows Movie Maker, which had come with my computer. That’s I
got my start with video-editing - on a simple, video-editing software.
In
2013-2014, when I began editing and putting together some Star Wars material, I
was looking around for some software online that would convert certain video
files to other video file formats and stumbled upon one that also had a
video-editor associated with it. Having downloaded it and liking it, I paid
some money for the license to it. This software was Wondershare’s Filmora,
which worked nicely.
While I
would occasionally publish a video here or there over between 2014 and 2019, I
really didn’t work on it much.
That is,
until I began working on my real estate videos, as well as the JewishDrinking
podcast videos.
“A Few
with Drew” Serves as Catalyst for Further Videos
Having seen
how easily I can make videos and publish them with no editing has served as a
catalyst for considering how much more video-production and publishing I can
involve myself in. The clearest example is having begun publishing a couple of
Star Wars videos, especially on books. While those were directly-inspired by my
“A Few with Drew” videos, as they involved no post-production and removed the
friction of taking the time and energy to edit them.
Taking the
lesson of my cocktails videos project of seeking to remove filler from my
speech, at least on-camera, I have sought to eradicate any filler from my
speech on-camera for the “A Few with Drew” project, which I haven’t fully
perfected, but have definitely been improving. Taking this non-editing approach
has enabled me to make more Star Wars videos, even if I need to be quite
mindful regarding speaking to the camera without fillers and really knowing
what I need to speak to the camera, as if it will be a complete product right
there.
While I plan
on doing some more with a bit of editing, certainly for these Star Wars bookvideos, I can do it with less friction for my own energies and time, which is
great, and which I hope yields further Star Wars video content.
I am now
also tempted to create more video content on Talmudic topics. While I have a
broad interest in Talmudic texts, I really probably should focus it for
JewishDrinking.com on Jewish drinking texts in the Talmud. Perhaps, at a later
point, I can branch out.
For the time
being, I am now excited about this “unlock” of ease of video-publishing that I
had made more difficult for myself by necessitating or at least thinking I
needed to edit any of my videos prior to publication.
Stay tuned.
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