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In search of truth -- for those of you with blog videos
Ok! I must know. If you tape videos for You Tube or a blog, and you make a mistake on your card, do you start taping over again? I don't make videos, and I don't have a blog, but if I make even the tiniest stamping mistake: crooked image, brad hole in wrong spot, smudge, etc., I must start over. I don't know why. The art of covering mistakes with, say, ribbon, just won't work for me. It's like Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart" -- I hear the thumping of the mistake under whatever I've tried to use to cover it. I waste so many supplies. HOW do I get over this?
I feel very inept when I watch videos... even though I love them... because y'all out there are so perfect!
I've only ever made one video - and since it was for a tutorial here on SCS, yes, I did start over two or three times. I think even it that one boo-boo slipped through and had to be captioned.
Ok! I must know. If you tape videos for You Tube or a blog, and you make a mistake on your card, do you start taping over again? I don't make videos, and I don't have a blog, but if I make even the tiniest stamping mistake: crooked image, brad hole in wrong spot, smudge, etc., I must start over. I don't know why. The art of covering mistakes with, say, ribbon, just won't work for me. It's like Poe's "Tell-Tale Heart" -- I hear the thumping of the mistake under whatever I've tried to use to cover it. I waste so many supplies. HOW do I get over this?
I feel very inept when I watch videos... even though I love them... because y'all out there are so perfect!
Many people struggle with "trying too hard to be perfect." Here is a really good article which I found helpful:
I've made a couple small videos, but they were screen capture video since I was giving a tutorial on some software. And I did start over when I made mistakes. I think I'd probably not start over if I was making a card though. I don't like to waste my supplies and cover up my mistakes with embellishments in most cases. If its a really big mistake (which is usually the case when I make a mistake), then I would have to. I know, not really a definitive answer.
I think we generally set our bar way too high- and I'm pretty sure that the little imperfections, that to us as the creator are sitting there, waving a flag and screaming 'look at me', are not even noticed by others! We see so many fabulous creations by other people, and want ours to be that perfect, just like the image we have in our head before we start. It has to be an appallingly bad, irretrievable mistake for me to bin something. Most errors can be covered, and as long as I can't see it, then its not going to worry me. But I understand you, LisaG, as my Hubby is exactly the same. If he is building something, say a window seat,(he did one in a previous house), then the sub-structure had to be perfect, even though it would never be seen, as 'he would know', lol.
Sometimes you can see where the filming has been cut and put together so maybe mistakes have been edited out. Then theres the times you will watch a video on the making of a card and the person will post a comment about things forgotten like the colouring of a section or added after the fact. Thats life and I have seen where one blog I went to she showed how many attempts were made before the card turned out as she wanted. There were many many false starts. Sometimes they can be covered up (mine tend to be ink on parts of my hand that I always end up leaving smudged on my card and need to be covered with something extra or a crooked sentiment).
I love card making so I look at life as near enough is good enough as perfection takes away my pleasure if I have to remake for every time I smudge or go crooked. I will be famous one day as everyone stands there looking at my cards with a tilt to their heads trying to line things up straight
I"ve made a couple of videos. It wasn't a tutorial, it was a show and tell. I haven't posted it yet. I'm waiting until after my grandson leaves in a couple of weeks to really get my blog up and going. It's mainly for prosperity not so much of a teaching thing. I will do some tuts but I will probably make sure that my words are more correct than the craft itself. I am very curious to hear others who do this more regular and have been doing it awhile.
I tend to make videos with lots of segments, setting up and showing one step at a time. I also know that I get distracted or flustered easily when I try to talk and work at the same time, so I add the audio separately. I do repeat audio segments until I can spit out the words I want to say - but those are easy to cut and paste.
I know that Lindsay, The Frugalcrafter tapes/talks same time and if she makes a mistake she finishes what she is doing and retapes her tutorial. She doesn't like editing. She does share her oopsies either on her uploads or on her blog.
There are quite a few others I follow that share it all. They may record their video perfect but they will put outtakes at the end or they will show you an example they weren't happy with.
I don't think that many of them throw away their work whether it ended up being the one used in the tutorial or not, because they alter it to use it somehow.
So basically most tutorials I watch are planned and they show what is planned no matter how many times they had to record/edit it, they seldom use their airtime to correct a mistake even if they do correct it in real life and show a corrected version at the end.
I have done lots of videos and am definitely not perfect - dear lord if you could have seen me yesterday trying to make a card! In my videos, though, which are all tutorials, I will start over if I make a mistake or cut out any mistakes because I don't want someone following along and then make the same mistake because I left it in, if that makes sense. I like the idea someone posted of putting out-takes at the end though!
In search of truth -- for those of you with blog videos
I know, not really a definitive answer. 
