For this sketch I uploaded 2 of the same videos. One is a simple focus on what a highlight essentially is on a site like YouTube. Although I’m exploring how YouTube effects the creative process of a gaming highlight in this sketch, what I’m mainly focusing on is how I can expand on this concept through YouTube.

YouTube offers me the freedom to edit and change the video as much as I like, the only constraint is within copyright laws and classification issues. However, I’ve already addressed this issue here in an earlier blog post so for now I’ll only be focusing on the form and style I’ve tried to create in this sketch.

So for these two sketches, I’ve decided to work within the constraints of YouTube which there aren’t many really – seeing how far I can take this concept of a ‘gaming highlight’ and experiment around with it.

The original unedited version is down below:

So as you can see it’s pretty straight forward, it doesn’t really feel ‘YouTube worthy’ in a sense it’s too ‘vanilla’ – meaning its too plain. Sure this video may work as a short Facebook video or better off shared on Twitter, but within the YouTube gaming community, people tend to expect more when it comes to videos such as this. In order to make it ‘stand out’ among the other countless videos, it need personality – hence I’ve taken the same video and simply added extra effects to it – a simple effect but I reckon it works better than having it plain.

Post edited with Sony Vegas again, formatted into an .mp4 file because like .wmv’s they’re not too large and make uploading easier whilst still remaining quality.