I’m still not feeling like doing very much today, but I have a vlog to do so I had better do something about getting myself motivated.
I didn’t make much progress with the script yesterday, so that’s my first task (after my cups of tea, dog walking and PopMaster). I’m talking about Parkinson’s Disease symptom progression this week, and I thought that I would struggle to find enough to fill 5 minutes of video, but once I get started the words flow freely.
I set up the camera and tripod in the lounge, load my script into the teleprompter app on my iPad, and rehearse it a couple of times. I film myself, which takes forever – my voice is playing me up today, and I’m having great difficulty in getting footage that I am happy with. I considered turning my neurostimulator down to see if that would help, but my tremor is already borderline annoying and I really don’t want to make it any worse. Eventually I am finished, and load the video onto my MacBook and start editing it. I obviously got carried away when I was writing the script – I like to keep my vlogs to around the 5 minute mark, but this one has stretched to over 8 and a half minutes!
By the time my wife gets home from work, I have finished it and am ready to upload it to my YouTube channel. I leave it uploading while we go to Lidl in North Walsham to do our weekly grocery shopping. I publish it when we get back home – rather later than usual, but I am pleased that I managed to achieve it.