Why You Should Document Your Life on Video
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- čas přidán 3. 09. 2023
- Why You Should Document Your Life on Video
It's been a big, weird, scary and exciting year for me and it's time to start unpacking it all. This is the video I tried to finish before I left town almost exactly 6 months ago, but it's come full circle now in a way that ended up making a better video as a whole.
Go pick up a camera, or an old camcorder, or heck even your phone, and hit record. As long as you do it for you-and future you-to enjoy, that's really all that matters. Cheers, and more videos to come
It's almost weird how someone I don't know, who lives in a different country, with a different culture and all... can create a video that is so relatable! Got some good memories from my childhood with this one! Thanks man!
Same here 💪🏻
Pasta auj jordui
The universality of the human experience and perceptions on the common tools we use to document and experience it.
Isn't it amazing how his stories have the power to connects all that we've never met and places we've never been!
filming yourself really helps you see where you're "faking" it and ironically helps you be more authentic, and stop caring how others see you...
Amen to that comment..its like you see yourself through yourself ❤
I forgot that I could document my life and not share it with anyone else but maybe just to my partner in life and to my family. Immortalizing it is such a great way to put it
I absolutely agree. I am 54 and I have been filming my life since I was 14 years old and I have kept every single photo and every second of footage. From this footage I have made multiple films - The Barham Warriors, Planet X, Trinket Crumpler, Thursdaddy, Honey Moon Safari plus many more. Every time I create a film I invite everyone who was in it and their friends to come and see it and the results are always the same. Tears, laughter and joy.
I hope you go on to enjoy many more years of filming your life because for me it has brought endless joy. Well done. Just subscribed.
Thats awesome! Thanks for the great idea
Do u have tips of were to save all those massive amount of footage?
@@maride95 It's quite a process. All of my physical media (tapes / film) I store in a place that is cool, dark and dry and dust free and I write the date of filming on the tape along with a small description. I am slowly digitising all of my footage onto hard drives which is what I would suggest to you. The most important thing is to keep a back up of that hard drive. ie: two hard drives containing the same files. I label each digital file by date in reverse order and a brief description of what the footage is of - ie: 20230101_FamilyZooTrip - that way the files all sit in order of date filmed.
I’m still in my teens I will do this!! :)
I have this weird feeling of "doing something wrong" everytime I think of documenting aspects of my life nowadays, even though I want to and wouldn't have to share with anyone. It's weird, feels like being on the internet leaves us too exposed already. But again, I want to, so I'm making an effort. Congrats on making this amazing, emotional video!
It is called artistic resistance which is typical of any creative person. They are ALWAYs between two choices: 1) not to create for the fear of being imperfect and then living with this pain of never self-actualizing creatively, 2) taking a step with that imperfection and being perfect in their trying. I hope the #2 wins 🧡
@@HarmonicFlows amazing explanation, thanks! I'm working on it ❣
I feel the same way. Its okay to have certain feelings towards things. Where im learning to compromise on that so it doesn't hinder my life is that not everything in our personal lives has to be put on the internet. We can choose what creations we want to put out to the world & which ones we would like to keep to ourselves so both ends get fed. We are forever creative, so I'm trying to also learn to feed the side of releasing our creations out to the world for them to benefit for. Who its for is who its for, who its not isnt. Friends & family opinions matter the least because they can often be biased with the image they have of you & tie that to your work, let the world speak for your craft.
This is one of the channels that gave me the courage to start my CZcams channel 9 months ago about self development. Now I have 1,299 subs and > 1,000 hours of watch time. I know it’s not comparable with others but I’m still proud I started because I’ve been learning so many lessons that I could haven’t learned without getting started in the 1st place.
Slowly, then quickly! Nice work.
@@jacob_gustin Whoever you are, I don't know you personally but I can say that you're one of the non-judgmental and open-minded people who is not fixated on tangible or external factors in order to learn from someone like me. Just because someone doesn't have a piece of paper as a credential, doesn't mean that person is not entitled to share personal experiences with the hope & intention to inspire others. Keep up with whatever it is that you're doing to improve mankind or improving your life even to a slight degree each day. This is just one part of a bigger puzzle for creating my CZcams channel about holistic health. I literally could have died back when I was 14 years old due to major depression but here I am right now replying to you, a CZcamsr, who's full of fulfillment and dedication to help others to be a better version of themselves. I ain't better than anyone else but my old self. That's all that really makes this CZcams thing more meaningful and enjoyable. Thanks so much for your support! I am hoping that you can join me with this endless personal development journey! :)
This short film provided the encouragement I needed. I document so much of my life, but I don't synthesize it, and I'm embarrassed to share it sometimes. This was a reminder that I can create just for me, and how fun the thought is!!
the old clips got me hooked, clicked, and stayed for the storytelling. It is so beautiful
Every couple of months I watch a video, where I know I need to rewatch it again the next day to experience it in a different frame of mind ... this was one of those my friend. I got into making videos here too to help people but also because of documentation as well. Phenomenal execution Sean!
Mate... this video is what I was needing. It's so fricking inspiring and motivating. I've been recently second guessing myself and feeling low but this gave me enormous amount of energy and inspiration! Thank you so much for you work and please post more!
I don't even know where to start but this video really brought up some emotions... I loved the intro with you showing the videos your dad made of you when you were small and its true, in some way these videos from my parents feel more vivid and real than any memories I have of myself as a child, I definitely plan on doing the same. Great aesthetically pleasing and inspiring video, best of luck to you in the future, you have some real talent!
This was incredible. Growing up, I had an uncle that had a camcorder that was used at all of my birthday parties and holiday events that my family put on. I used to re-watch those moments again and again growing up, getting to re-live those experiences, but also cementing them into my memory with a clarity not afforded by my memory alone. I'll have to look into digitizing those old VHS tapes before they degrade beyond salvaging. It's nice to look back on, for the memories, but also to see what it was like to record the moments we genuinely cared about and get lost in those memories.
Even here on CZcams, I find that the videos my friends posted way back in the late 00's are some of my favorite to go back to. It's not because they have good cinematography or edits, just because it's a great way to remember a moment in my life with more clarity. Thank you so much for this, I really needed it today.
This was inspiring! From the story telling to the color grading. Everything was on point! Can't wait to see more!
Bro, this seriously brought some tears to my eyes. It's so funny how you think you're the only one and then see someone literally doing and saying all the stuff you've been trying to do yourself. I'm happy to see you crossing the next threshold for all of us man. I really love your creative edits, with the pausing of narration to real talking footage, and resuming while you're across sea's already to round things out. Excellent touch.
This video really touched my heart.
You showing those videos your parents took in your childhood reminded me of my parents recording me at that time. Always brings back those memories. I'm looking forward into getting a camera myself, I will definitely try that out - recording random things which might seem normal/random at that time.
Hey! Your video really hit home for me. I've been into documenting my life for a while, and your insights just made it even more valuable. Watching from Iran, and I gotta say, your enthusiasm is infectious! Keep doing your thing and spreading those positive vibes. Excited to see more from you! 🌟📹
i yearn to have storytelling skills like this. not just script wise but how you film and edit and everything in between. im glad i clicked on this as i was scrolling through my feed
This was awesome. I so wish I had videos of me and my family growing up. I feel like you had so much growth with just a camera in your hand capturing all of your moments. Definitely going to strive for this!
I love this so much! As someone who got into videos for the past couple of years, this made me emotional. PIctures just don't give the memories justice. I try filming even just a few seconds of what's going on with my life and when I look back and watch them, it makes me feel like I was re-living that moment :)
I don’t have any footage of me when I was younger other than performing in a play since filming outside of those events was not a thing when I was younger. Your video made me realize how precious the footage I have of my children are and how I should spend the hours and hours of time it will take to make them into videos. Great storytelling, video editing, and your footage of your travels are beautiful! Looking forward to more!
The experience of seeing yourself on your home tv / camera I feel like was really profound especially in that time period of the 90s... I think it shaped a lot of us filmmaker/youtuber/videographers. I really love your style and storytelling chops. Keep up the great work.
real ppl telling real stories, and they rly do touch deeply, thank u Sean!
This video was super well done! The story telling, the emotions, the conveyance, all of it absolutely blew me away. I've been interested in videography/photography for a pretty long time, but never really invested much of any real strong effort into actually capturing most moments in my life, because as of right now I'm in probably the most stagnant, boring, uninteresting point in my life that I've been in. I've been doing so much research on different kinds of cameras, and I'm still doing more to look into it, but I really do want to grow and make some personal changes that will be great for my mental and physical well-being. There's a lot going on I am wishing to change in my life, there's so many different goals and ideas coursing through my mind, and I want nothing more than to try and achieve some of those goals, even if my mind makes things feel overwhelming when it all wants to come out at once. I can very much so relate to not really having strong amounts of focus on the things that I am not very passionate about, but the things that I am passionate about, I like to hyperfixate on. I think it's not a bad thing as long as I focus on taking care of myself in the creative process.
Thank you very much for this video, it's been absolutely beautiful and inspiring for me to be better.
Beautifully shot and great advice; I love the nostalgic feel in the intro as well. I love to document whatever I can of my daughter and family for the same eventual feeling that hopefully they can look back on it and have it for their sake. Liked and subbed, can't wait to see more.
Great work, Sean. The storytelling, the editing, and the beautiful imagery inspire me to up my game. Best wishes from an old Aussie.
What a masterpiece of teaching! I sold my camera a couple months ago. I used to take pictures and videos all the time but suddenly personal and family issues started to crumble and stop doing it. I know someday I'll come back at it but need dont have the money yet. Thanks for keeping the spark!
11/10 video content! wow!! Thank you for your beautiful reflections and your incredible power of documenting. I feel like it helped me process parts of the pandemic I didn't even realize I still had in me. I loved watching this. GO SEAN GO!
Hahah wow you really now to to hype a person up! Thanks for watching friend, and hope your travels were everything you wanted them to be!
I am so glad I discovered this channel. Thank you for the inspiration! This is one of my fave videos now. Such an amazing piece.
This was a thoughtful essay and it hit home. I was the nutty kid with the 8 mm movie camera going everywhere with me back in the 19 70s. Accessing those moving memories today is a blessing.
This is so inspiring! Love all the footages especially the color grading. I document our travels but recently started documenting the daily mundane life and your video inspires me so much. “Making poetry out of your own memories.” LOVE THAT!
Waiting on your next video! 🎉
Your story telling ability is impeccable!! Thanks for the inspiration!
100% resonate with the idea of filming as "outwitting time." gorgeous video! thanks for the inspo!
Wow. I felt this. Was just thinking about how I miss my passion for this. The days turned into weeks, into years and we feel left behind…and then to work on finding ourselves again. Picking our cameras up again. Remembering why we are so passionate and getting back to it. Thank you so much for creating this beautiful visual journey that I can so relate to on a deep level.
makes me so happy to get comments like this. I was really just trying to motivate myself when I made this video, and knowing that it's inspired anyone else is more than I could have hoped for
The thing with watching documentaries is that they even put your own memories in a new perspective. Thank you!
man im going through the before your ticket fase, never been much into uploading anywhere, but been thinking of recording the day to day to, thank you, you just helped me snap out of the doom
I started documenting my life but now just the editing is my challenge. Thank you so much for sharing, good shots and storytelling.
This is really inspirational for me, you just made me loose all of my public embarrassment for shooting videos in public, and now I actually want to go out and use my camera equipment to make memories. Thank you. 😢
Damn how did I fell on this video ? This year has I turned 25 I decided I would document my life and each year of the rest of it , because .. everything you said ! And has I’m selling all my stuff , having has well a quarter life crisis , leaving in a month with a one way ticket , I suddenly don’t feel so alone in all this . Beautiful thank you ❤
Whoa. This may be the most inspiring 7 minutes I've seen on CZcams in a long time. Super glad we came across your profile. Can't wait to see more from your adventures. Cheers.
This was the best watch in the internet today! 🍿🤸♂
Would love to see more of you doing the thing which you love.
I watched the video because the title intrigued me ... not looking at any count or such. Wow, such an amazing storytelling! It's wonderful - hats off and good luck on the project. I'd love to try something similar.
This video is so good, man. The solo trip is such an important experience. Thanks for sharing with us.
The way it should be done. I look forward to see what you collect and put together when you do get back. This was an awesome piece of work.
Thanks brother… you’re a great inspiration and I pray your journey goes well and fruitful ✨
“Outwitted time” is one of coolest expressions of video I’ve ever heard. Perfect articulation of how it feels to watch home movies of when we were kids. That’s why I’m doing the same for my daughter but in 4k on a Sony A7Siii, but at the same time I really want to find my dads old camcorder and record on there too.
Fellow Winterpegger here. Nice to see these familiar scenes put together into such great vid. I quit my "job" a couple of years ago. It can be hard but also very rewarding. Good luck!✌️
Your visual images are extraordinary. I agree that people can get a lot of enjoyment and benefit from making videos. I have been making and posting at least one video a week for the last 16 years. Most of it was therapy. Making videos every week grounded me during times when my world was turned upside down. Along the way, it has been a lot of fun. I think it's great you are encouraging people to make videos. You never know who your videos will inspire or what will they encourage others to do. I subscribed.
Thankyou for this, this also gives me more motivation to take my camera with me everywhere I go
Over from reddit as well. This is exceptional! Super inspiring. Can't wait to see what you do next!
WOW! Just WOW! I was watching my own life story on this video. I'm a filmmaker from Brazil, and I record as much as I can from my family, my kids. I want to give then this "time travel machine" as my father gave me.
I really hope you continue your project, and that you live those moments as intensly as possible.
Subscribed, and I can't wait to watch all your videos!
Well done Sean, this was inspiring. Thanks for sharing. 😊
This is exactly why I want to document my life digitally. So I can have memories to look back on, good and the bad. To look back and say hey I did this or I did that. Unfortunately, I don’t have any childhood videos,but to have memories to share with my children/family if Im blessed to have one of my own will be such a wonderful moment and conversation starter❤.
I have always wanted to document my life; I always loved seeing old photos from when I was a kid. I don't really have videos, so I always wonder if I should do it to have something to rely on when my memories start to fade. Thank you for inspiring me and so many other people to do it. Your words made a huge impact on me.
Thanks man, this was very cool to watch...nostalgic and compelling at the same time. I'll start documenting my own adventures and life...to start writing my own story..
this is my first time seeing your video and it's really amazing. Sometimes, I wish I had videos of my childhood tho. So, I can look back. Idk man you're living your best life and that's amazingggggg.
Hope to see more films like this on your channel. This is sooo wonderful ... and being a documentarian myself ... I totally get it!
This was such a source of inspiration, thank you so much for sharing!
Such a beautiful video and important point!! Love this take on using your camera and making the moment even more special
hey congrats man, this is very well done. I really enjoyed the video combined with the things that you said. Thanks for sharing!
This is really cool! I think the hardest part is to put myself even in this mindset! I mean, as for what to record and when... But maybe if I'd push myself to do it, eventually it would become more natural. That "excited dad with a film camera" mindset. I think it's hard because we're so overburdened with an information flow already that we rather scale back than immerse ourselves in it. But it's frustrating because I *want* to do this stuff. It's super valuable in several years and often even appreciated by those who don't know you that well. It's an unfiltered peek into someone else's life. And that has become a rarity today.
Thanks for the kind words, I agree it is tough to make yourself do it. When I was shooting it all last summer I kinda felt like I was being annoying occasionally or like I wasn't even sure how it was all going to come together but the cool thing is that whatever you capture, it IS going to be valuable to look back on, for you and for the people in your life. I get what you're saying about the oversaturation of information online right now, but it felt nice to try and capture everyday things with a bit more of an artistic eye, and using my camera instead of my phone sorta distanced myself from the "social media influencer-ness" of it all. It felt more like I was capturing something important, because it was important to *me*.
My grandparents literally recorded everything my mom did growing up, from baby until she went off to college, the little project ends with her graduating college. It's really cool to see my mom in so many different stages of her life and how awesome it is to get to watch something like that. This video resparked my creative itch and I think I'll start doing this with my own life, either that, or when I have kids, do the same thing my grandparents did with my mom. It's so amazing
You went above and beyond with this video! My favourite was the grayscale phone tip! Great tips!
Wow, I love the vibes and much of the mindset of this video. Best of luck.
I really felt this; thank you for sharing ❤
I just took your advice and uploaded my first short film, thanks for inspiring creators all around the world
saw the video and hit the like button , but then i saw your outro and had to subscribe . This was put togther so perfectly uou have somehow refilled my motiavtion to keep recording and learning . thank you and i cant wait to see what you post next .
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What a stunning work of art. Cheers buddy. I hope to have the same courage as you.
So important to document life because so easily we can forget where we came from, thanks for the reminder.
Hey Sean. You are so underrated. Thanks for telling your story. I hope the best for you.
This is really well done. You and Life and Riza are really making me want to improve my filmmaking and storytelling skills
This was really nice to watch and also very inspirational. Thank you for that piece of art
What an absolutely beautiful film u've made. Thank you for sharing, love to y'all
Incredible video! Got me all in the feels and inspired. Pleaseeee create more for your CZcams!
Thank you man, I needed this. sending hugs..
Thanks to the algorithm I ended up watching this gem, this got me thinking how similar we both are at least in our experience recording chapters of our life and having them to watch all over again, now I have the quarter life crisis too and quit my job searching more of life, I´m a videographer and I do commercials and stuff but in México. Hope you´re doing okay, now I´m subscribed I´ll be waiting for more content keep it up!
I really enjoyed this!
Thanks for sticking your neck
and sharing.
Best,
Steve
This is so soothing and inspiring! looking forward to see more of your works :)
I can't remember the last time I enjoyed a video this much. Subbed just to see what else you post.
Enjoyed this! Makes me want to go digitize our family's old home videos asap
Beautifully written, shot, and scored, I enjoyed every bit of this. You sure know how to give people the travel bug! Can't wait to see what comes next! :)
I was NOT ready for that ending. Thank you for the inspiration.
This is such an incredibly inspiring and beautiful piece of content. Thank you so much for sharing your story and enriching ours through such a powerfully-simple message.
i'm glad this video showed up on my recommendations! loved the vibe, you just earned a new subscriber
It's so good to have such valueable memory videos I just have some old pictures and memories in my mind. You're so luck.
Thx! You really ignite my passion for recording my life again! And also traveling is indeed such a great thing to make transformative experiences and memories in the only-once life. Love it! Thank you!!🫰
We just watched! That was so well done. Unbelievable footages you captured on your recent travels. Those colors 👌🏻Keep posting!
thanks so much for giving it a watch and the kind words!!
Love this- dude the footage at the end. So beautiful
this is beautiful!!! that last 40ish seconds of shots were perfection
thank you for the inspo man, much needed
A video that in its straight-forwardness and honesty cointains much more poetry than many staged acts. congrats.
One of best videos I have ever watched on CZcams. thanks man. love from India.
Thanks for the great video! Enjoy your trip, looking forward to seeing the footage later
You got yourself a new subscriber and a supporter. Looking forward to seeing more of your videos
Funny how you did a two month solo trip thru Southeast Asia... Cause this is exactly what I will be doing starting Feb 28th :) And once more, this chapter will be documented with my camera for sure!
Very inspiring video, thanks a lot! 😊
Honestly I love the choice of sizing when it came down to framing the pictures. You decided to put the fast in a SMALL FRAME and increased it accordingly to how close it was to the PRESENT. Honestly I’m going to use this in my next video
Starting to document my life this year thank you for the inspiration ❤
Man, things sit in my various playlists in CZcams for so long.... I feel terrible it took me 5 months to watch this.
Wonderful stuff, dude! You know I've enjoyed everything you've produced - big fan - but this is just so great. Artistically it's astounding, but the personal aspect and the story is what brings it to another level. (It also makes me not feel bad about the hundreds of gigs of video footage I have. 😂 Some I've used, some I'll maybe - hopefully - still use, and some I'll never again do anything with.)
Loved this! I think this year is the year I dive in Draper to filmmaking and blogging. You got a new sub ❤
this video really touched my heart. my grandpa was like your dad, he was always recording my childhood and my mom's childhood on his camcorder. when my mom was home alone with me she'd also record little parts of our day: making cookies, playing outside, playing with toys in the living room--it's all stuff i hold near to me now at 19 years old. but this video, in the two times i've watched it, made me realize i too have all the parts, i just didn't know how to put them together until now. thank you for this video.
Bro that was hot - enjoy life to the fullest on your time. I support that - peace and blessings