Whoops! My apologies to those of you that receive my blog via email – I’m afraid I published yesterday’s enthralling edition before I had finished writing it. Here’s a link to the full post.
I’m thinking about doing a weekly vlog, at the suggestion of a number of people who have commented on my YouTube videos, so I am going to spend some time today thinking about what on earth I could say that would prove interesting to others… First things first, though – tea, Nutriblast, dog walk and PopMaster!
Once the important things have been accomplished, I sit down with my iPad and try to make some notes about Parkinson’s Disease, what it means to have it, what perceptions people have about it, what people may not realise about it. I latch onto a couple of points, and before I know it, I have quite a script.
Strike while the iron’s hot… I set up my handheld digital video camera in the lounge in front of the sofa and, after a couple of practice runs, shoot the video for my first vlog.
It’s a much more straightforward job than making a review video – it doesn’t matter (so much) if I fumble a few words, and I can do most of it in a single take, so getting the video onto my MacBook and editing it is a breeze. I upload the result to YouTube and publish it.
I feel strangely nervous about it – perhaps because it’s about me, rather than some kind of product that I’m offering a critique on. Oh well, it’s done now – publish and be damned?