RE: He’s a natural presenter (a 5 year old)
My boys wanted to do the gaming thing like their favourite Youtubers too (I'm pretty sure youngest used to watch FGTV). Oldest has this delusion that you definitely need all the gear (which we currently can't afford) to get anywhere and refuses to acknowledge/believe that it's possible to slowly work your way up and thus won't even start. Youngest is still keen to become a dtuber but as he's realised after a couple of experiments that he's not that great at talking his way through his games and also doesn't feel like a good enough gamer to be a tube gamer he's decided to do something else, he just hasn't worked out what that is yet. I'm trying to get him to do videos on our homeschooling shenanigans (which will also satisfy some department requirements XD) but we haven't managed that yet either.
ps - hope your 5yo is happy with the family and friends audience so you don't have to fight with him about why you don't want to put it on Youtube :)
That’s great they showed and interest in it, and perhaps still do.
Yes there’s a myth that you need lots of fancy idea gear, but you really don’t.
I used 2 x GoPro Hero 4 cameras for the video we did with my boy. Then just edited those two angles together, and added some fun titles and music 😁
GoPros are very cheap and easy to get hold of, easy to mount anywhere too - we did an over head shot looking down at the iPad from above and we used a broom pole to clamp the camera on to achieve that effect 😂
That’s half the fun - the journey of producing something and setting up is quite satisfying in itself!
Perhaps there’s a way to source some basic cameras to do this with for a day and make it a project?
Convince them it’s possible and might spark something in motion?
We only have my iPhone to work with ^_^; and that's getting hard as I normally delete stuff off it once it's been offloaded to my computer but as that's been unreliable to non-functional recently (not sure whether to blame Linux or Apple at this stage as it was working and then there were updates and now it's not really working) I haven't been game to offload things unless I know for sure they're on my computer (so basically just deleting earlier videos as I go as they're what takes up most space).
Youngest is happy to work with what he has with this kind of stuff, I think what will help most with oldest is me telling him that you do this kind of stuff professionally and still just rig stuff up :)
I see! Ah that’s a tricky one.
iPhones are a pain in the arse for that.
Yes all professional videographers always face times when they are required to think on their feet to solve a problem, usually with lighting and camera stuff. Often using gaffer tape or whatever is to hand.