I’m Slowly Changing My Channel
There’s this sickening pressure on YouTube to find a niche, develop a brand, and do it consistently. Every YouTube “expert” advocates for a predictable consistency in what you offer to build a large audience. I’ve been back and forth on that direction, and frankly I don’t think it’s what I’m trying to do. Being financially successful is great, but if you have to become artistically bankrupt to do it, then I’m out. I started reviewing speakers and products because it was a great balance between my interests and a commercially viable video for affiliate marketing but it doesn’t feed my desire for narrative story telling and discovery.
This is why I decided to start bringing real interviews into the mix on my channel. I spontaneously purchased a Sennheiser MD46 which is microphone designed for news gathering, originally conceived for the 2020 Olympics to help isolate background noise with it’s cardioid pick up pattern. My latest video about a coin show features lots of quick interviews, and I really loved doing them (with caveats). It’s quite frankly, thrilling. The caveat is that I’m working on overcoming my social anxiety, which why I wanted to try interviewing. Had I chosen to stick with the “experts” on YouTube I doubt they’d have recommended such a departure in my content, but I think in the long term this will bring more success. Interviews make me really uncomfortable, and I wanted to explore that feeling.
Below are some of my projects with my interview microphones (more on the way on my channel)
Before I had gotten the microphone, I was focusing more on voice over work with a limited set of interactions (talking to people is hard to make interesting sometimes). This CES 2023 overview is where it started.
