Back to Writing Blogs, ang Hirap mag Vlog---Sobrang magastos din!

In the 80s, if you are a business owner and you wanted to advertise your business or brand, all you need is a prime time TV ads. It's expensive though. In the 90s all you need is a website. Every business has a website. Businesses need its presence on the new creation---the internet. But it's difficult to set-up and maintain a website that only big companies can afford. 

In year 2000 as the website creation becomes easier and affordable, all you need is to blog. Many personal blogs gain popularity at the time and became a full blown website that have diverse functionality. In 2010, all you need is a YouTube channel.

I'm hooked from blogging since 2011 and then experimented making vlogs in 2020 to cope up with boredom during those lockdowns brought upon by the pandemic. Creating videos and posting it on YouTube was doing great during the pandemic. 

Daming views, ang bilis ko na monetize. But it's not easy to make videos. Apart from writing, research, you have to talk also and film yourself in front of the camera. At kapag hindi ka comfortable sa harap ng camera napa ka awkward talaga nitong gawin. 

Especially, if the topic is more about opinion. I'm not used to voicing so much of my opinion. That's why, for me, I like to make video tutorials sa YouTube. I noticed that most views came from my video tutorials about stocks trading. 

Then everything becomes more complicated when I learned more about video editing. Damn! It came to the point that I became sick. I've got a type of syndrome that's very expensive. It ruins my discipline to save and invest. They called it GAS. Gear Acquisition Syndrome. 

Ang dami kong biniling gamit sa pag gawa ng YouTube videos, na akala mo gagawa ako ng pelikula. I burned a lot of money buying gears, subscribing and buying editing software. 

My GAS started when make videos for YouTube in 2022. I have a DSLR camera that I got back then in 2010 when digital photography was the trend. Although my Canon 1100D has video mode but it is intended talaga to take photos. This camera don't have a auto-focus when taking videos. 

So, I bought a camera having a flip screen (for vlogging) and auto focus. Umpisa ng gastos! Then here comes the need to buy the lightings, the tripods, the SLR microphone, the IKEA table, the Mac computer for video editing, the audio interfaces, the switcher, the list can goes on and on and I earn few dollars only. What a pity. Ngayon nakatiwang-wang na lang.

KAYA FOCUS NA LANG AKO SA BLOGGING BAHALA NA KAYO MAG-BASA HAHAHA!