OP and former Senior Editor of Portsmouth Point, Doug James describes how he and OP Ben Thomas have turned their academic interest into a fascinating career.
It’s a bit of a unique hobby. I’m not even sure if one could
classify it as a hobby. Every Monday, unless I have decided before, I have to
think of what (probably) historical topic I want to create a short 5-15 minute
video on, and every Wednesday, I take what I believe to be most interesting
scientific news of the week, while Ben writes in Paleontological News, and then
makes a video on that too.
I’ve simplified it all quite a bit and I don’t know
what that’ll be like to read for someone else. I’m sure if I told my
sixteen-year-old self that, he would find it far stranger than I do now, but
it’s easy to forget the strangeness of something that you’ve been doing for
what feels like so long.
It’s also dangerously easy to forget that the audience of people who
watch the videos we create are all real, especially when I’m just looking at
statistics, and even comments. But it’s always on my mind when I’m writing a
script, editing a video, or scoring the video, I’m constantly thinking ‘will
people like that?’, ‘will this make sense to someone who doesn’t know the
facts?’, ‘will this edit seem jarring?’, ‘does this chord sound too out of
place?’
I guess it’s the same as any work that you know someone else is going
to see, except there are quite a few people who are going to see this piece of
work, and they’ve all turned up expecting to be entertained.
Luckily for me, I can do pretty much all the work I need to do at home,
so the lockdown hasn't been as detrimental to me as it could have been - and so
the show goes on.
Here are links to both channels:
Doug A James:
Ben G Thomas:
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