Do Not Make Anything That You Cannot Make!

Okay the best way to make content that you won't be embarrassed of in the future is to NOT MAKE ANYTHING THAT YOU CANNOT MAKE! I'm saying if you wanted to make a live action Pokemon fan film/parody you NEED to have a cast, costumes, possibly effects or animation, and probably an HD CAMERA! For example if you wanted to play Ash Ketchum in your Pokemon fan film you're going to actually need an Ash Ketchum hat, not some random red hat or Red Sox hat. And it can't be a Pokemon short film/parody without Pokemon so you're going to need 3D animation program like Maya or Cinema4D to model and animate the Pokemon into your video. Or you can use costumes. Make sure the costumes are good like in Smosh's "Pokemon In Real Life". I see so many crappy Pokemon short films and parodies on YouTube almost every week! I've only seen maybe 5-7 actual good ones. Like "Pokemon Apokelypse" which is a VERY good example of a good Pokemon fan film. And if it's a "fan film" you're gonna want people to actually like it because the only people you're actually going to attract to your fan film are fans of the thing you're basing your fan film on or parody. And you're gonna NEED an HD camera because it won't be very enjoyable without HD. But you're really gonna wanna make it good AND have fun when making it or else there's really no point in the project being made! But what I'm saying here is that if you don't have the right cast, costumes, programs, props, camera, production value than I'd suggest you don't make the video until you get the right requirements. But I give props to you for at least trying! (And note: I made an extremely crappy Pokemon parody back in 2011 and erased it because it embarrassed me so much)
 
I kinda disagree with this, if you don't push yourself how will you ever get better.

Okay yes you do need to try in order to get better but you should really start out with original content before you take someone else's creation and parody it and make it look terrible.[DOUBLEPOST=1370115583,1370115358][/DOUBLEPOST]
So don't make a how to if you don't know how to structure an instructional post? got it :)

Good tips.
I'm not sure though about the ONE paragraph. Its a bit hard to read.
Next time use a list:
  • like that
So its more crystal clear. Or more than one paragraph :3
Hey! Really sorry about that! I'll put more work and effort then it takes to make a decent parody/fan film into my next post so you can read it better okay? :)
 
Okay yes you do need to try in order to get better but you should really start out with original content before you take someone else's creation and parody it and make it look terrible.


Well yeah but that's different from what I thought you were saying which was not to try and make high quality videos, and I still don't think aiming to put out content to the same level as others and falling short is a bad thing. It's only natural if you start trying to make parodies or short movies.

Freddiew himself said that you shouldn't worry about being amazing straight away and to try to make films with the equipment you have because it's the only way you'll learn
 
Well yeah but that's different from what I thought you were saying which was not to try and make high quality videos, and I still don't think aiming to put out content to the same level as others and falling short is a bad thing. It's only natural if you start trying to make parodies or short movies.

Freddiew himself said that you shouldn't worry about being amazing straight away and to try to make films with the equipment you have because it's the only way you'll learn

Okay, yes you're right. I just don't want people to be the way I was in 2011. But that's what YouTube tutorials are for! XD
 
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