Sometimes, you don’t get what you’ve asked for. You can pivot and go in an entirely new direction. Or you can decide to do everything yourself.
In this episode of Creativity Excitement Emotion, David shares how he decided to learn new media all by himself.
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Highlights:
00:17 – The story of how David ended up learning new media by himself
02:27 – Figuring out how to create content
04:23 – The trick to audio sweetening
05:18 – The evolution of David’s new media journey
06:14 – One microphone changed everything
07:02 – The pros and cons of a content first approach
08:12 – Capturing ideas as they come to you
09:33 – Don’t worry about the gear – start recording!
Transcript:
In 2009, I was thinking about going to school for a new media course, and I think I've told that story before. My grades were fine, there just weren't enough seats for me to be able to join the class, which primarily focused on podcasting, video, and composing music for video games.
It was right around that point that I decided, I didn't get into this course, and I ended up applying through a strange set of circumstances anyway. Originally, I was just going to audit a composition course because I was like, “Well, I want to continue to invest in my growth. I'm just not sure if I'm ready to enroll.”
And then I was told by the professor, “Why audit? You could totally enroll in this.” And that's where the seed was originally planted.
So, when school didn't work out, I made that transition very quickly to, “Well, I think I can do it myself.” It was then and there that I decided, “Let me learn the art of podcasting, and making videos, and composing for video games by myself.”
And that's what I ended up doing. I started a YouTube channel for video game and movie reviews. I ended up kick starting the David Andrew Wiebe Podcast. As an extension of those projects, I ended up composing music. Maybe not a ton of music, but certainly like 10, 20 tracks. The music appears in some of my videos as well.
That YouTube channel did alright over time. I think it was just good timing. I could record a little bit of gameplay footage and get a few thousand views. Those were the days, that was a fun time for YouTube.
We've switched things up quite a bit, so I'm not too sure if there are any old guard listeners out there that remember all those projects, but if there are, just know that I super appreciate you because if you've followed me to this point, you've had to hop at least two other podcasts just to get here. So, thank you, thank you, thank you if you have been following me since that time.
And I remember thinking to myself at that time, “I don't even know how to record myself. I just know that I have a headset.”
Which, oddly enough, those have somewhat increased in popularity in recent years. I was kind of surprised to find that because my experience with my headset was fine, I suppose, but it wasn't anything special.
As I'm speaking, the headband would make a lot of crackling noises, and I was like, “This is kind of weird.” But I figured out how to do it at least at a very basic level. I don't even remember what I was using to record at the time.
It was a USB headset, and I found some kind of recording app on the PC. Well, it's that hard to believe that it's that far back at this point that I can't even remember what I was using.
But I plugged it in and recorded myself and away I went, right? And the podcast got going.
My first video edit that I ever did, too, was a review of a wrestling game from Super Famicom or Super Nintendo, if you will. And it went much the same way. I had to figure it out as I went. I used Windows Movie Maker to put it together.
And then I got a little bit of help from my buddy, Adam, who knew our home studio better than I did.
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