A big defining factor of Paige (me) as a human being is being a pain in the ass to feed. Being a coeliac vegan, I felt as though it was my god given right to play my snowflake card to the best of my ability, and get some content out of it.
I reflected on the type of content I like to watch in my spare time and 90% of my YouTube history is vegan related food videos (recipes, what I eat in a day/week etc). I get most of my recipe inspiration from both videos + vegan food blogs.
Some vegan Youtubers I thoroughly enjoy are Amanda Ducks, Caitlin Shoemaker, Healthy Crazy Cool & Julien Solomita.
There seems to be a general appreciation of aesthetics across the board for those mentioned above, with even the thumbnails radiating the typical plant based video energy.
This highlights 2 things:
- Food and cooking content is something I enjoy
- I have a personal preference of what I think a ~good~ video or blog is.
For my digital artefact it seemed appropriate to combine the above and create my own recipe videos which are suited to my dietary requirements. I have a severe lack of video skills, with the extent being base level iMovie knowledge. What I am missing in knowledge I can make up with enthusiasm, right?
I admit that I have been slacking on creating anything for DA as the plan was to just film what I did on the daily, in theory I eat everyday so it shouldn’t be that difficult to capture SOMETHING.
I find that I am already experiencing a droplet of failure in the ocean of complete chaos. Everytime I set up my phone to record (need to master the basics before I whack a camera into the mix), there’s some mess on the bench, or my chopping board isn’t fitting with the theme, or just any excuse I can think of. Not very FIST or FEFO of me.
I have the fear that I am going to put off making content due to the fact I KNOW the first lot of videos produced won’t be the standard of those I watch. Rationally, I know I am not a professional food blogger, but the inner perfectionist in me wants it to be PERFECT.
I think I just need to bite the bullet, everyone has to start somewhere.
PAIGE SUTTON 
Really interesting reading about you DA, I am also doing a cooking related DA so I can really relate to this. First things first I completely understand how irritating it is when you want to film but nothing looks right on camera, but just film whatever you can because it can help to develop your persona. In my DA I wanted to have a performative persona (like in the Five Dimensions of Persona pages 4-5) of a student’s voice while still maintain professional ish videos. So testing out these different filming styles can help you narrow down what you wanna project. Like how Julien Solomita has some hella professional and aesthetically pleasing shots, but he doesn’t lose his personality in it. I would have loved to see some of the stuff you have filmed in the blog, even if they were just really shot GIFS because it might show a bit more of your process. Also you mentioned having basic iMovie knowledge and you’re filming on your phone, so I really need to recommend an app I started using this semester called “VLLO”. My editing time is so much shorter, and I don’t waste time importing and exporting footage, also it isn’t really dodgy looking like other iPhone editing apps. Hope this helps, but I love your ideas can’t wait to see more!
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This is really cool and I considered something similar. I’ve been thinking about going vegan alot recently and even started cooking vegan meals but can’t get the push to stop having some of the good stuff form time to time, but maybe instead of doing videos you do a page with instructions and use gifs or clips to show the actions needed instead of full videos that way it will be easier.
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Yo dude, nice post. I’m diggin’ your DA idea – seems simple enough to do and makes good use of your identity. I think that despite what you say, it certainly covers #FIST – instead #FEFO seems like the major rub here. And damn, I totally get the inner perfectionist stuff (as someone who produced jack for #bcm112). Wise folks say “perfect is the enemy of the good”, which means… well, literally just #FIST in the sense that it means perfect is *impossible* and *overrated*. So yeah, biting the bullet and getting on with it sounds like a good idea (for both of us, in fact…).
Besides, from what you’ve displayed here, it sounds like you’ve got *plenty* of stuff under your belt to ensure whatever you make will be fine. I don’t know much about this sort of content, so I can’t really recommend much; YouTube sounds fine for now. I suppose you could blog about food too…? Though I think it’s best to consider stuff like that once you’ve gotten a good schedule of videos going. Develop a core and branch out from there, y’know?
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