User:Ayernam/Battle of the Week videos


 * For the original blog post, please proceed to: User blog:Ayernam/Nitrome Wiki on YouTube!

Week One
Hello everyone! A few days ago, I decided to create an account for the Nitrome Wiki on YouTube, since it already had one on Facebook and Twitter! At first, I wondered what I could use the account for, or what videos I could upload. Well, I came up with an idea! You know the Battle of the Week page that a decent amount of readers and editors vote on weekly? Well, I decided to make a video "advertising" that!

I used Microsoft PowerPoint to do it, if you don't notice that from the video. I also used a screen recorder to record the presentation because there wasn't a way to upload it to YouTube. (This made it a bit laggy, since the recorder had to record nearly the whole screen, but not by too much.) I also added in some fitting music to accompany the "battle" theme! I think I like the result! Hopefully it will attract some YouTube watchers to our wiki because the Battle of the Week might sound interesting to them. Anyway, now that I've set up the basic "template" with the first video, it will be easy to make videos weekly. The video I created is below. Hope you enjoy!

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Week Two
Hello again! Week two's video for the Battle of the Week has been completed, recorded, and uploaded! I made a lot of changes, and I think that, from all of your feedback, the video is much better. So thank you all! I added animation to the "Battle of the Week" words in the first slide based on Frosty's suggestion, added some more pictures, shortened the slides based on Nobody's and Emite's suggestion, and even figured out how to make the music fade! Overall, I think it turned out good. Anyway, I'll stop talking now, so you can watch it:

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Week Three
I think I will use this blog post as a storing place for my Battle of the Week videos. So check back here weekly for the latest one! I may change the basic template for the videos in the future, but this week's is not much different:

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Get it though? The knights of the round table? XD

Week Four
I actually almost forgot about this week's battle, as I was busy with other things. When I saw that Nobody had updated the battle, I realized I had not even prepared the video at all! So, it turns out that when you are trying to move quickly, you often find out new things, as I did. Before, I would always set up custom animation (the animations such as moving or growing and shrinking) for each individual video I made, and for each individual picture. Well, it turns out that PowerPoint allows you to "change", or replace, the pictures on your slides, so that the animations for them remain the same, just the image is different. This way, you don't have to set up the animations again for each new picture you add. Anyway, that helped me a lot.

I also seemed to have stretched out Nitrome Towers in the making of this video! Enjoy!

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Oh, and also, I noticed some people were suggesting that there be more videos than a weekly battle one, and I agree completely. If you have any ideas, just let me know in the comments.

Week Five
This week I realized something about the titles of my videos - they were mostly just numbers. I knew something was wrong about the titles, but I didn't really know what it was until today. So I changed my videos' titles from the dates of the battles instead to what actually the video is about - who or what is actually battling. The dates are still in the description, though.

For this week, the battle of the musicians, I added to the second slide some of their "best" tracks. They were not chosen by me - I simply went on the iTunes website and saw which tracks of theirs were the most popular. For Dave Cowen, they were Mallet Mania, Powerup, and Mirror Image, while for Lee Nicklen they were Frost Bite, Dangle, and Cold Storage. I thought that was pretty interesting to find out.

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Week Six
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Week Seven
If you are having problems accessing this blog post due to lag, as all the videos have to load, simply take the link below and keep it somewhere. It is the link to the Battle of the Week playlist. I update it every week, and so you can check there for the latest video.

Click here for the playlist!

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Week Eight
There was quite a large battle this week, with five "opponents" - but it's an awesome battle too! I think Auto would like this one! :D Anyway, since there were more than two opponents, the video is a bit longer, but the music fits in really well, in my opinion. It was also bit harder to do because of all the opponents, but I think the animation turned out well, too! Here it is:

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Week Nine
The battle of the warriors!

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Week Ten
The battle of the wizards! By the way, next week, the BotW video will have been made by Frostyflytrap. I think he did a fantastic job with the animation and design; it really fits the whole "enzyme" theme. So be ready for that next week! :D

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