Since you have watched my mailbag #2, how much you rate it from 10?
Comments:
- Audio is fine, speech is fine and quite listenable
- Pacing is fine
- Lighting is a bit to "harsh" IMO, like you have studio lights that are too close pointed right at it. The key is using diffuse lighting bouncing off walls etc
- Framing is a bit too tight, I'd pull back the zoom a bit.
- I really don't like videos shot in this "looking down" approach, it just seems unnatural to me. Personal preference of course. I have mine at maybe a 45deg angle, i.e. you would see what I see if you were sitting at a bench opening something.
- Seems like you have auto white balance on, colours look wrong at some points.
But basically you are doing just fine.
I am interested to see if you people could understand my English properly without that weird Arabic-English accent some of us have. I see ElectroBOOM speaking fluently (unlike me who say "ahh" "umm" a lot!) but his accent is not good but still gets +1M views each video. His comedy and high voltage shorting of himself are more important than what he speaks as it seems.
ElectroBoom is popular for more than his comedy, his phrasing is really good, mannerisms and expressions are really personable, and he explains things very well. Doesn't matter how funny you are if you aren't appealing in other ways.
Getting the "natural" speaking ability is vital for this as I think, I wonder how will I achieve it. Even Dave himself was so bad at it in his beginnings.
I still suck at it.