so you're out there and you're watching
YouTube and you come across all these
family vloggers you're like that's
something we can do I have a fantastic
family I got a beautiful wife and
beautiful kids everybody's gonna want to
watch us and I'm gonna make a million
dollars that have a billion subscribers
and it's just gonna be the best thing
ever
so you start doing a little bit more
research and you start thinking wow you
know I think I can really do this should
I do this do I really want to do this
and so today I'm gonna be talking to you
about some things you need to consider
before starting a family vlog and talk
about the ups and downs a family vlog
and the good and the bad and I'll give
you my opinion that I've built over
almost four years of vlogging on YouTube
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and now back to the content first family
vloggers are a special group I've met so
many of them over the years and most of
them are extremely extremely good people
who just want to build memories with
their children they want to record these
memories for eternity for going back and
viewing them and just kind of taking
people along on their ride there's so
many different types of families not
every family is the same and it's just
extremely interesting to see how people
live we started this channel off as a
family vlogging channel and we still
kind of are I've bridged the content in
a different direction but I'm still
going to be doing family vlogs to keep
up with our family that's the whole
reason we started this channel was to
build memories together we started our
channel three and a half years ago
because my youngest was watching the
Shaytards I didn't know it was the
Shaytards I just thought they were just
watching some strange family putting
their home videos out on YouTube and
that's where I came across family
vlogging it gave me the ability to take
all of the things I was filming anyways
and kind of focus them and put them in a
way that was a little bit more
interesting than watching a thousand
clips of just random things I can put
them together
kind of a mini story and that's much
more consumable to watch you're thinking
about starting a channel what do you
need what kind of equipment do you need
first you can start off with your phone
when I first started off I started off
with hold on one second to show you
start it off we had this camera right
here this is what I used for a couple
hundred videos it's a handycam nine
point two megapixel use this for
everything I dropped it a million times
it's things still work still great
quality you don't need to have a best
equipment to start I know you'll watch
some family vloggers that does have
everything like now I have tons of
equipment I've built it over almost four
years I wanted to improve the quality
but the quality on this thing is
absolutely acceptable your phone is
gonna be absolutely acceptable so I
wouldn't focus so much and all the
equipment would focus on what it is you
want to do with your channel when you
watch family vloggers you're gonna see
the full gamut of styles you're gonna
see those who are super polished super
produced challenges and graphics and
just over-the-top everything and then
you're gonna have some that are a little
bit a little more low-tech that just
kind of show their day and that's kind
of where we were we just showed our day
we shared our experiences and my kids
had fun and that was it we did some
challenges and things over the time but
we weren't this super highly TV produced
family vlogging channel so but when
you're first starting out you probably
just want to kind of pick what's your
focus what are you gonna show what are
you gonna show what are you going to not
show things like that because you know
for me not being funny being kind of a
private person I don't show a lot of the
personal things I would just show the
good times on our travels and the events
that we went on I just wanted to record
that I didn't want to record personal
stories and all of these intricacies of
things about growing up as a kid I don't
want to put anything out that is gonna
embarrass my kids the things that
they're gonna be embarrassed about
seeing later on in life or even
currently so when you first start off
you really kind of want to focus on what
it is you're gonna show I would
recommend not going the route of being
sensationalizing all of the things that
you do I see that all the time people
just super click baby over sharing and
things like that that might that might
get you more clicks but it's just not
something that I subscribe to when it
comes to the family vloggers although it
has been
quite successful for many folks so your
mileage may vary
that leads me to the downsides and the
kind of segues from and I was just
talking about realize your kids go to
school and their friends will eventually
find the channel and then they'll watch
and they'll say things that's kind of
been some of the downside I've seen that
happen I've seen some people come on and
say some pretty nasty things just being
nasty the Internet is filled with nasty
people who want to do bad things and say
bad things just because they're
miserable people you got to be prepared
for that you need to be censoring your
channel and going in and putting a lot
of keywords in the block a lot of things
to make sure that stuff doesn't get put
on your channel and making sure that you
clear that out before you kids see it I
know my kids watch the channel I make
sure that I approve all of the the
comments I respond to every comment I
make sure that I see them and I kind of
clean that up cuz I don't want my kids
seeing just people out there being nasty
and miserable on our channel you know
we've seen a lot of different things
over the years so you need to be
prepared that not everything is gonna be
people that just love you and want to
dis have good comments and good
conversations there's a lot of people
out there that this are miserable
another point I want to make is you
don't want to force it you want you
don't want to force things you know I
know some people make kids do takes over
and over and over again yeah it's got to
be natural you want your kids to have
fun with this this was something that we
all do together we all loved having a
Channel together when we first started
and then we still do but you don't want
to force it you don't want to have this
be like a TV production if you're truly
just doing this for family vlogging
purposes for creating memories then you
want it to be as fun and natural as you
can you don't want your kids to be at
back looking back on and being like yeah
that was a miserable time even though it
looked fun and I want to also talk to
the parents like no one that turned the
camera off you don't want to record
everything you want to enjoy the event
when you watch these produced vlogs
there is so much that goes on before and
in the middle and after that when you
watching you're like wow that does look
like a great time no we're just like
every other family you have things
happen there's arguments there's fights
kids get in trouble bad things happen
you know there's irritability when
you're traveling there's this a lot of
thing that goes on and I wouldn't highly
suggest not putting that all in there
but realizing that when you watch other
people have all these really super good
times
they're having the same problems that
every family has but there's no wind
that turned the camera off I think we're
all gonna find the balance of what we're
comfortable with with showing and not
showing so I think you probably want to
think about where that line is for you
pretty soon after you start vlogging
just to make sure you don't put anything
out there that you wish you didn't now
another thing that I think many family
vloggers go through especially when you
start off from trying to do daily vlogs
the burn out the amount of time when I
first started editing for me to put
together like a 10 or 15 minute vlog I'd
be editing for 3 or 4 hours just because
I was just learning if you already do
this as a profession that should be cut
way down there's so many videos that
wants to kind of teach you how to edit I
learned from scratch on how to edit and
that would just spend so much time
laboring over the edits and going
through all the footage it really does
help it I've done vlogs on this before
that talk about shoot to edit so you
just kind of know what kind of vlog
you're gonna do that day and you know
what shots to get you get those and
makes it really easy to put those
together and string those out so you
have a finished product that you're not
recording 2 hours of video and wanting
to cut that down to 10 minutes that's
gonna take a lot of time because you
have to watch all of it and edit it down
you really want to start to learn very
soon after you start to really shoot to
edit to make sure that you're only
filming the things you absolutely want
so that you can put them together really
quickly and turn that around because if
you don't you will burn out really
quickly and you need to have fun the
kids need to have fun every time you
turn on the camera you don't want
everyone gonna be miserable so just
watch the burn out make sure everyone's
having fun and I think you'll have a lot
more fun being a family vlogger now the
upsides there are so many up sighs I
know family vlogs get a bad name too a
lot of the other community in YouTube
just because they think there's an issue
with putting your family out there I
think there's a safe way of doing that
and I will leave that all up to you to
think about as you progress and evolve
as a channel but there are so many good
sides to this I just talked about this
many many many times my family had a
common thing that we all loved going to
play this live and celebrating together
being a vlogging channel we were proud
to say where the shenanigans I'm gonna
hand out our card we just had a great
time meeting people and we're super
proud of that it's something that we all
enjoy I mean do you have something your
whole family enjoys doing we have that
we've spent the last three and a half
years having that common thing like
being that t9o family his family but
this was a something outside of just
that we have shot over 400 videos we
have memories going back years we've
seen our kids grow I can go back and
watch videos now that I forgot that we
even have and it is priceless I would
not trade it for the world
there are so many upsides the family
vlogging as you're spending time
together you're doing more because
you're like we need to do something
interesting we can't just always go to
the target and hug that so you you think
about things that go do I mean that's a
positive thing just in and of itself
that you're being forced to go try to
find things to do that are fun with the
family you're building those memories
and you're recording them and you're
spending a ton of time together and
family spending time together can never
be bad and finally the the products you
leave you're leaving a legacy you're
leaving memories you can go back and
watch these and you will always remember
those times because they're out there
forever and I just think that's
extremely cool to have those memories I
wish I would have had that when I was a
kid I wish my parents would have taken
more video and more pictures of me when
I was younger because now that I'm older
I would love the bills show my kids but
I don't have a ton of that my kids are
gonna have the ability to go back and
watch themselves they're gonna be able
to watch dad when he was younger before
I become an old fogey and can't see or
talk or do anything else I hope that
doesn't happen no but I can still talk
that's ridiculous so I want to leave you
with this it is a tough decision to
start and it's a tough decision to keep
doing it once you start running into
some of the bad things the burnout and
just the things you run into as you
start a channel that we all have to
learn on our own path but if you're
starting family vlogging to get rich and
famous that's the wrong thing to do
start it because you love it started
because you want to build memories start
it because you want to do something with
your family you don't want to do this
again I talked about that in that video
that I just put out about intrinsic
value you don't want to do this because
you want to be rich and famous cuz it
won't last you want your kids to have
fun you want them to be naturally you
should be natural record your family
build those memories and the breasts
will come you will get better at editing
you will get better at telling stories
you will get better at fill
all that will happen you will have to
put in a time but give it time don't
give up keep going through it I have had
so many friends on YouTube quit and it's
sad I go back to their channels and
haven't posted for 2 or 3 years and
that's sad to me because it wasn't just
about being successful it was about
building those memories and recording
the memories and that's really what it's
about if you can keep it about that and
keep moving forward
successful happen if that's what you
want if it's not what you want then
you've already reached that successful
point in what you're doing you've
started it you're recording memories and
that's successful you know it was not an
easy thing for me to kind of shift this
channel there's a rotten a lot of
personal decisions and things that came
into play for me doing this there's a
lot of things I want to do with building
this and I understand that I have to try
to get people to care when you're a
family vlogger you have to get people to
care about you to continually watch your
videos that's hard when you're first
starting out so don't get wrapped around
that I'm shifting this channel because
it's something that I want to do I still
want to be doing family vlogs because I
want to continue my craft of
cinematography and video and I want to
record my family but I'm shifting the
focus of this channel a little bit away
from that and not identifying 100% with
a family vlog but I still consider
myself a family vlogger and a content
creator that's what I want to do for
this channel and you may want something
completely different you may want to
start a different channel and you know
as you spend time on YouTube you will
evolve you will find your voice and you
will find out what you truly want to do
and that's the best part of this journey
you you you have to enjoy the journey so
all you new family vloggers out there I
really hope you have fun I have tons of
videos that talk about family vloggers
and video and all kinds of stuff and
this topic go ahead click around find
them I wish you the best of luck please
leave your channel down below and say
hello and I will definitely go check you
all out I love seeing the family
vloggers I usually always go out and
watch some videos and comment because I
think it's an awesome thing I love
seeing families when they're there
creating their
and they're all excited and its new and
it's just it's just a neat thing to me
because I remember being there and it's
something I think about fondly quite
often all right that's all I have for
you tonight thank you all for watching
and until next time see you
