Thread:Cold92/@comment-25359950-20141124083412

Hi!

I noticed you wanted to get into making odottemita videos? I know my videos aren't that great so far (I'm working with what I have), but I thought I could talk to you about it, dancer to dancer?

Place to dance If you mean a practice area, then you can find access to a dance studio at certain gyms if you have the money for a membership. I live in California (USA), so I go to California Family Fitness. I also have a membership to 24 Hour Fitness, but the studio isn't as good. If you don't have money for one, you can try using one at school (if you are in high school or college with a dance program). If you have absolutely no access to a dance studio, find an area in front of a huge window. In my high school (when I didn't have access to a dance studio yet), the cafeteria was empty after school and the windows were big, so sometimes people would dance there (when the school dance studio was unavailable). And you can always resort to the bathroom mirror (belive it or not, some talented YouTube odorites do this! Like Florence and Friskie). Also taking videos of yourself whether you have a mirror or not really help a lot! I swear by this method.. I watch my own videos to help myself improve for performances or to redo covers!

If you mean a place to film, you can film anywhere! Lol. Just keep your eye open for good film sites.

Editing videos Start out small with Windows Movie Maker. To be honest, most YouTube odorites use Windows Movie Maker if all they want to do is overlay the music beacuse it's free and simple to use. The problems with WMM are that it lags horribly if you try to start playing your video from anywhere but the beginning and the old versions don't have the capability of reading an HD video file, but it gets the job done. I only have Windows Movie Maker for now, but I am saving up for Sony Vegas Pro, since I would like to get more into video editing and making some really cool odottemita videos. I am not very proud of the ones on my channel right now, and I have high hopes for the future.

Try it out with lower standards. If you absolutely hate the video, don't post it. Just get the experience. Filming odottemita videos are good experience, esp to improve your dancing (as I stated above).

Camera I understand that a friend can really help with camera! I never film anything alone and I try to have someone man the camera while filming whenever I can. Sometimes I can't tho, and my videos turn out alright.

Perfection Like I said, don't keep your standards so high when you first start making odottemita videos. I was the same when I first started, but I decided to start small to prove to myself I can do it and make sure I am truly interested in making these before getting serious and raising my standards. I decided to post the bad videos anyway for fun and to make friends in the community. The youtube odottemita community is really nice! Worst case scenario, I can delete all the videos later when I start making better videos with a better editing program. With any odottemita dancer (NND or YT), the early videos can have low quality cameras and are filmed in their rooms and you can see where they start improving when they get better cameras, move outside, and improve their dancing skills!

Just start out small. If you hate the videos or don't think they meet your standards, don't upload them. That's what Light does, leader of Sector51 and many other dance groups. You can see how much better some of his newer videos have become (like this original choreography he did with Ari Ki that made it to the top 100 rankings on NND). Of course, one of his earlier videos looked like this, but now he is recognized by odorites on NND.

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Thanks for reading! I'm sorry if some of the things I addressed don't apply to you, you already know these things, I misunderstood your bio, or you don't agree with my advice. Anyway I really look forward to seeing your videos! With such high standards and an avid odottemita fan (admin of the 217 fanpage and NND reprinter!), I'm sure your videos will be amazing once you start posting them!

-Ris Ventures (leader of eMpiRe)

P.S. Thanks to your channel, I found a new choreo I want to learn by Shirahan, Karasou, and Kamen Liar 217! Luvoratorrrrry! Haha. 