How good are you at watching YouTube uploads of our flights? Dare you be honest?

[Dangerly]

Presumably most of us upload to YouTube whatever we did on our drone journeys - because we want people to watch them (and hope for a response that is favourable cos we humans are self-centred like that!)

[snip]

We drone pilots tend to get caught up in the pilot part of the video and forget the fact we're telling a story. If the story is weak, you'll lose the viewer. Simple as that. Ideally the viewer forgets that they're watching a drone video and loses themselves in the story.

 

[RodTurner]

Usually I jump in sections and watch bits that interest me. I watch a lot of pilot eye videos and tend to skip in the same manner.

 

[Archer]

Dare you be honest ?

I put my drone videos on to youtube, mainly for myself ..... fortunately.
100 views over the length of a year is good going.

Making Drone videos for youtube seems to be a bit of a niche operation,
people have to be interested in watching drone videos before they watch them,
who must be a very small number in the general population.

Personally, I have a few gripes with other people's drone videos on youtube.
Maybe I am too picky.

Videos made during the much recommended " Golden hour " by video "experts" on youtube.
Sunset and Sunrise..
This results in videos much too dark to see anything worth seeing.

Those who cut their videos up into three second bite sections, all looking in various directions,
Chop ..chop ..chop, it is most disorienting.
Instant turn-off.

Those who contaminate their drone videos with Dog-**** "music", thinking that the viewers will like
their choice of music.

Aimless stabs at random views with long hesitations and no smooth flow and story line direction.
Instant Boring.


What do you folks think about putting music on the drone videos ?
The music really needs to be relevant to the subject being filmed.
Which is usually a hard choice.
So I normally don't bother with it.