Crazitive African Magazine Issue 12 | Page 3

the Rookie The video streaming website, YouTube has gotten in the three most visited websites globally, along with Facebook and Google. The “broadcast yourself” idea became incredibly popular and has taken over the world. Youtube is a medium for information and a trendsetter in every area of human lives. You sure can tell that it's a totally set out space and a world from a different perspective. Youtube has grown from just shooting and uploading, upgrades in terms of editing, graphics, quality etc have been imbibed as the world evolved. Funny thing is people only see the end result of a systematic set of processes but they hardly ever care to bother about what goes on before there is an actual youtube video. YOUTUBER . A quality dropping app instead of a good editing software etc. Also, the large data consumption required to upload and view these videos pose as stumbling blocks to many aspiring and budding YOUTUBERS. Editing without initial prior knowledge also poses as a problem as certain editing apps drop the quality of the video, add settings that can't be changed. Above all of this, the youtube space happens to be a vast and interesting universe, gives space for exploration, inventions and adventures of different sorts. Also gives space for improvement and learning of certain things. The joy that comes with fact that a lot of people, far and wide, view and As a rookie YOUTUBER, sourcing for the appreciate your content is also satisfactory, we perfect background, set, quality, editing, can't forget the monetary aspect which is also audience etc has proven to be difficult rewarding. especially as a young Nigerian on a little/low budget. As a newbie, a lot of improvisations are devised to make the video look good, a phone to be used for shooting in place of a camera. .