Dan Willis is testing whether a smartphone and gimbal are enough to run a YouTube channel for a week while traveling to the West Coast. He'll document the tools, challenges, and editing techniques, and wants viewers to suggest topics like interviews, vlogging, and B-roll.
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All you need to start a YouTube channel is right here. Stick around, guys, we're going to talk about this today. Alright guys, welcome back. I'm Dan from millennialmotivator.ca, helping you learn how to create, engage, and inspire. If you're new to the channel, go ahead and click that little bell down there. And the subscribe button, and you'll get a notification when my next video goes live. I put up videos Monday through Saturday, and this week is something special. So normally I do a variety of videos on how to grow your business online, how to better reach your, your online presence, your online community. But this week what I'm looking at is traveling on the road. I'm going out to the West Coast in the States, going to meet with several clients while I'm out there. But the reality is I'm thinking about what I'm gonna pack, and it's like, how do I get the camera? How am I gonna bring the tripod? How do I want to bring my Joby? And I realized what I'm gonna do instead is forget that. We just got the Zhiyun Smooth Q gimbal. So for the week, every YouTube video that I do, whether it's the live video or the recorded videos, everything's gonna be from this phone. I've said it before on this channel that all you need to get going is a smartphone. And it's easy for me to say that, but in reality, most of the videos that I create are here in my office using my HD desktop cam. So I wanted this week to be an experiment. I'm gonna go through the week and I'm gonna break down how you can actually do this, tools that I use, challenges that I face, and hopefully we can do a nice series of videos here to help you guys understand. So today's video is gonna be a shorter one, I know. Normally it's about 10 minutes, but today's only gonna be about a 3-minute video because what I wanna hear from you guys down in the comments below is what do you want to see in regards to the smartphone week? What are some topics you want me to tackle? What are some things you want me to try to do with the video? Interviews, vlogging, B-roll, how do you edit on the phone? Anything you guys can think of, let me know down in the comments below. I know that I'm kind of whispering here. It's still like 5 AM, so I didn't want to wake up the family doing this, but the reality is, guys, I'm excited. I'm excited. I'm excited for this week. I'm excited to see what can be done with just a smartphone and whether or not that's a sufficient tool for people to actually get started on YouTube, or whether I need to stop telling people that. So let me know down in the comments below, what do you want to see this week in the series? And I will catch you tomorrow with another smartphone video. Yay!
