WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.361 Hello everyone! 00:00:01.361 --> 00:00:05.217 Some of you might have looked at  this video, noticed its runtime, and thought 00:00:05.217 --> 00:00:10.331 “Wait, it’s not November yet. Surely this can’t be  a video from Technology Connections” 00:00:10.331 --> 00:00:11.830 and yet, it is! 00:00:11.830 --> 00:00:15.707 But, a typical video of mine it is not. 00:00:15.707 --> 00:00:21.956 This is more of an announcement for a new project that I’m working on over on my second  channel Technology Connextras. 00:00:21.956 --> 00:00:26.712 That’s right, I have a second channel where I talk about  stuff and don’t prepare for anything. 00:00:26.712 --> 00:00:29.027 Except that’s about to change. 00:00:29.027 --> 00:00:35.312 Well, the talking about stuff won’t change, but the amount of preparation will at least marginally increase. 00:00:35.312 --> 00:00:38.821 I received a request from one of my patrons who is blind. 00:00:38.821 --> 00:00:41.059 And it was really thought provoking. 00:00:41.059 --> 00:00:47.835 Those of us who work in a visual medium, like I do, tend to throw audio pretty far to the side. 00:00:47.835 --> 00:00:50.735 Now you all probably knew that about me, 00:00:50.800 --> 00:00:55.120 I’ve never exactly been thrilled with  my audio setup here in the studio,   00:00:55.120 --> 00:00:59.041 and, uh, more than a few times I’ve forgotten to  run the de-esser. 00:00:59.041 --> 00:01:01.768 Sssssssssorry about that. 00:01:01.768 --> 00:01:04.472 But that’s not really the issue I’m tackling here. 00:01:04.472 --> 00:01:10.029 For those of us that feature whatsits and doodads, when we talk about how they work and what you do with them 00:01:10.029 --> 00:01:13.495 we are often talking about them while they do their thing. 00:01:13.495 --> 00:01:16.273 And yep, that’s how I’ve been doing it forever. 00:01:16.273 --> 00:01:23.801 All of my B-roll shooting has been done thinking essentially not-at-all about capturing the sound of the device I’m featuring. 00:01:23.801 --> 00:01:32.269 In fact, I typically listen to  podcasts while I’m getting B-roll so much of what my camera manages to record is completely unusable. 00:01:32.269 --> 00:01:38.357 Now to give myself the tiniest bit of credit,  there have been a few times in many of my videos where I thought 00:01:38.357 --> 00:01:42.100 “this would be good to let people hear” and I’ll shut up for about a quarter of a second, 00:01:42.100 --> 00:01:44.594 but  still that’s not exactly great. 00:01:44.594 --> 00:01:48.907 This entire time I’ve been thinking about  device and other mechanical sounds 00:01:48.907 --> 00:01:53.735 as adding something to the video experience  but nothing of critical importance. 00:01:53.735 --> 00:01:58.344 But there are many people among us to whom the audio is the  only experience, 00:01:58.344 --> 00:02:00.457 and wow that must be irritating. 00:02:00.457 --> 00:02:02.123 So, I’m gonna fix that! 00:02:02.123 --> 00:02:08.958 I’ve been working through my old B-roll to see what’s got usable audio and what I could feature in this new video format. 00:02:08.958 --> 00:02:12.184 And yes, I will still be making these as videos. 00:02:12.184 --> 00:02:15.773 I think this series can be enjoyable  to those who are sighted as well, 00:02:15.773 --> 00:02:19.376 and so I’ve decided to call the series Sights and Sounds. 00:02:19.376 --> 00:02:24.999 Now I don’t think every video topic of mine will be worthy of its own Sights and Sounds companion, 00:02:24.999 --> 00:02:29.456 and indeed as I’ve been going through my back catalog I think the majority are not. 00:02:29.456 --> 00:02:31.728 But for those that are, we’ll revisit them. 00:02:32.080 --> 00:02:37.120 And part of that revisiting will be cleaner  audio recordings along with new footage.   00:02:37.120 --> 00:02:42.480 There’s a lot of stuff from my archive  that frankly has terrible audio of its own,   00:02:42.480 --> 00:02:47.388 largely from before I had this studio space, so  I’ll just get some more. 00:02:47.388 --> 00:02:53.108 And when appropriate, I’ll try my hand at descriptive audio so  that those who need it can follow along.   00:02:53.360 --> 00:02:57.531 Going forward I plan to make this part of  my general video production, 00:02:57.531 --> 00:03:01.637 and will upload a Sights and Sounds companion along with the main feature. 00:03:01.637 --> 00:03:07.044 Again, that won’t always happen - many of my topics don’t really feature specific devices. 00:03:07.044 --> 00:03:14.800 But when they do, I’ll do a better job at documenting what they’re like without my commentary, explanations, mood swings, et cetera. 00:03:14.800 --> 00:03:18.433 I’ll be revisiting my old topics rather sporadically. 00:03:18.433 --> 00:03:23.328 I think it’s fair to say that right now I’ll be treating this as something like a side-project, 00:03:23.328 --> 00:03:27.071 so stuff will appear up there when I have some more idle time. 00:03:27.071 --> 00:03:34.218 I mean, if you haven’t figured it out  by now I don’t exactly have a production schedule and so, 00:03:34.218 --> 00:03:34.831 yeah... 00:03:34.831 --> 00:03:36.412 But I’m excited about this! 00:03:36.412 --> 00:03:42.091 I think it’s very worthwhile to document the things I feature in a more chill and accessible fashion, 00:03:42.091 --> 00:03:44.296 and I hope that you find it worthwhile as well. 00:03:44.720 --> 00:03:49.518 The first video in the series should be up  right now and you can click on it right there. 00:03:49.518 --> 00:03:51.298 Or find it in the description. 00:03:51.298 --> 00:03:55.861 While you’re there you could also subscribe if  you like so you see the new ones as they appear. 00:03:56.076 --> 00:04:00.480 As always, my sincerest gratitude goes to all my amazing Patrons,   00:04:00.480 --> 00:04:04.191 not only for their support, but for great ideas like this. 00:04:04.191 --> 00:04:06.560 And thank you very much for watching.