Reply To: Omar Domenech’s Demo Reel

[Thibaut Bourbon]

@dostovel alright I’m doing things right then 🙂

By the way Thibaut, your tutorials are great, you know some deep math stuff and hackery things. How is all that making a tutorial thing about? I always imagine myself thinking on how would I go about making a tut, all the stuff I’m going to record and narrate, practicing everything and then when the mic is hot and recording…. silence, I’d have a hard time putting a sentence together, I’d get that weird freeze thing that happens that your brain chokes. 

Thank you Omar, it means a lot to me. I experience the very same thing you describe. In my mind I have the best punchline, the ideal way of describe how to do this or that, the perfect idea of how I can edit it and then… pitch black. 

Now I got a bit more experienced so I start to have an improved workflow, but the difficult parts are always the same, what to say and how to say it. I think it’s fine NOT to describe everything, and go faster on some part: the viewer can then try by him or herself and also the question sections are perfect to elaborate specific points.

I usually rehearse a lot, if you give it a try you’ll find yourself repeating the same bit of sentence fifteen time until you get it correct. There’s different way to record, for the moment I prefer doing a voice over type of tutorial. It’s a bit more job on the editing part but recording is smoother I find.

 It’s a learning process, especially if English is not your native language. I feel confortable enough in English but it’s still an extra difficulty so I write it down  and improvise along. I gave up on trying to get a better accent also, as long as people understand me I think it’s fine.

You should give it a try, i want to learn from you !