Re: Motovlogging - Video log while riding a motorcycle Is this all about this thread?
Well here's my Motovlogging story:
Graduating in the subject of English from Delhi University has its own merits and demerits. While demerits for me were more, merits were only a few. Hence, I chucked the idea of going for Mass comm and started working in retail back in 2009. But my interest in Detective Fiction, Agatha Christie being my favorite, never subsided.
Meanwhile, I bought a Pulsar 220 and started going for regular meets, initially. Steped into stunting and while I was going good, I met with an accident, not because of stunting though, and gave it up sompletely. This could be attributed to my biking circle which was limited to some of my friends with most of them riding 220s that time. While I was a no-touring person, I did join them for a ride to Bhangarh from Delhi and that changed the entore perspective. Soon, I gave up stunting completely and began riding.
Now there used to be this gentleman, Nishant Jha, who rode his enfield to places and blogged each and every ride. He came as an inspiration to me and I too started posting each and every ride. The English Honors chap was coming back and I started enjoying jotting down my experience.
Learing is continuous. Even while you sit and do nothing, you're learning something or the other. I too was learning and with every ride, my writing skills got better and better and the content started appealing to the readers. I'm still learning! Not that I have a huge fan base which waits for my next post, but yes, every travelogue completed gives me even more satisfaction than completion of the ride.
FF to 2016
Mid 2016, I joined a Kawasaki dealership as I was looking to explore and pursue my passion for motorcyles. Well though I'm back in retail (this is where I belong!), my motovlogging story started this very year and at this very place.
One of my colleagues , then, now my friend, bought Sj M20 as he was into tech stuff and had good contacts with distributors and retailers. So this M20 was delivered to him at our showroom and I too was present. While I did watch youtube videos, but it was only in 2016 that I got acquainted to this workd of Motovlogging.
The gadget looked fascinating! Like a gem in a crown! oyed around a bit on it and then that very evening, I had my own! Yes, that fast! Now, I have the gadget, what next? I was clueless. Then began a period of watching youtube videos almost entire day and sometimes night just to understand this term Motovlogging.
It was finally in September that I rode down from Delhi to Pune on my Std 500 for a training session at India KAwasaki Motors and had a chance tu use my M20. However, when I came back, I had little to no content that made sense. So it was an effort wasted.
This brought about a second phase for me as a youtuber to understand as to what to shoot and how to present. After a lot of research and spending countless hours to understand what people like and what way do they want to see it, I started following few vloggers and learned a lot from them.
Post this, I was able to shoot sensible content. However, something was missing again. I needed a software to edit and complie videos. Trust me, the first 53 min ride video was a complete disater. As I say, life is all bout learning and I learnt. I learnt that if I cannot watch a 53 min informative documentary, how will people watch my crap for 53 mins?
So now editing played a majoe role, I downloaded a software and read the pdf for the same and was able to perform some basic editing almost instantly. All this while, I was being shifted to Bajaj as Kawasaki had revoked the existing dealerships pan India. While I worked at Bajaj showroom, sundays were lively!. Rides were regular, organized by Bajaj and this gave me an opportunity to shoot, edit and post videos on youtube...basically grow my channel.
Come 2017, I recorded my 13 day journey across Bhutan ex. Delhi in full and posted some content in a way that I would like to watch and I did gain a lot of appreciation for that. However, another lesson learnt, you cannot record any clear audio at anything above 40-45kmph, you need an external mic.
Ordered an SJ7 star from Ali express with eternal mic support and things have been better! Life is all about learning, you know! |