The No-Gatekeep Guide to Creating Better Sports Content PT 2

Again , you know we're not the experts , but you know we have been doing this for a little bit . So I hope you enjoy this and , guys , without further ado , I'll give you the episode I'm in the future

. What are your top three social media platforms that you do not met like this ? These are the ones that I go with I'm gonna put instagram at first .

So it's like that's one less thing I have to do and it gives me okay traction . I wish I would do YouTube , though . I really want youtube to be there for me .

I really want that spark between me and youtube but it's not there yet it's not there yet only because it's like I post too many videos that are not three minutes long and I feel , like on youtube , I don't like those borders on the side of the videos and you , those borders go away if your video is three minutes or more .

My videos used to be that long well , remember now three minutes .

So , like uh , I've been going hard on Instagram and you see it's fun because on Instagram you can , it can can both . If you do videos or things like that green screen , you can put it both strictly on uh , or either just instagram or you can put it on facebook and threads oh yeah it will allow you to do both .

So I'm like I , I hit the three , the trifecta , with all those three . So technically I should put , I should say meta is number one , youtube and then Twitter .

a good question . That I wanted to ask you is , like , because obviously we both have different teams that we root for , um , but like we , we're both working super hard to make it . In an industry right where you cannot show biases , yeah , and that's hard .

That's my home stadium , and if you know me , you know that I'm going to always at least have a hat of the team that I'm , you know , doing this vlog for . So except I've never done it for the raiders . So whenever I go to a raiders game um , I will not wear anything raiders , I'll wear my bronco stuff . Um .

One time I went to a jets raiders game during veterans um , it was like veterans day weekend and it was a salute to service game and I wore an air force hat , like I didn't even wear a Raiders hat , you know , and so able to get away with it because you were doing that . Yeah , yeah , yeah .

However , I went to a Superbowl watch party and I won a raffle and what was in the bag ? A raiders t-shirt and a raiders football hat and shout out to oak view group . They are now the official like catering company , food providers of legion stadium and I absolutely love them .

They do great work , um with other stadiums that I've been to , so I am going to show support to the raiders . This year , I am hoping to do a media day with oakview group and , of course , I'm not going to go to my broncos stuff .

So I think you know you can get away at a raiders which is wearing black yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , um , but I don't have an all black hat like with no logo on it get a 47 or a new era or something like that . Yeah , I guess I mean , I don't mind the hat that I have , though I didn't pay for it you know , I want it yeah , so I don't mind it .

Look , I tell myself , I'm so dedicated to like my craft and I'm so like I can push that I can push the you know what rivalry to the side and just clock in for a few hours and do what I have to do .

Look at stadium food girls like my passion and , um , you know , when you're clocked in , you've got , you've got to have a certain mindset and so I'm telling myself , right , like once I walk into the arena , stadium , and I pull out my phone and my lights , like I'm clocked in , like this is professional work now , even though it's not , that's funny .

A few months ago , I was in spring training and I didn't have my mini mics and I was doing a POV of me getting my stadium food girl angels Jersey made , and I had my phone and I was like , you know , talking to my camera while walking to the team store , and I , because I didn't have my mics , I was like , okay , oh , we are on our way to the team

store to get our . You know , come with me , and I was talking so freaking loud and I was on the concourse and I was like people were looking at me and I was like looking at my phone , but my peripheral vision could see people looking at me just yelling on the concourse , talking to my phone , and I was so nervous .

But here's the thing too is like whenever I see somebody like a content creator out in the wild , I'm curious to see what the video , what the end result , is going to look like . Oh my God , yeah .

So in my head I'm like , maybe they like we'll find my video , and they'll be like oh my God , I saw her making that video , though , so this is what it looks like . It came out good . That's like my wish , yeah absolutely .

So you you , you , you take your video like you know , straight , like this , not the 9x16 no , no , no , no , no no no , I do I do like straight up , like what do they call it portrait mode ?

But , like the bars , I'm not a bars person on the videos I , I get that , I that I , I can see it's .

I even will set up my my uh tripod and everything , just so that way I can have it on a on that way , because it's that's , you know , most of the stuff that people watch . The vast majority of the videos where people are watching are not on a computer but on uh on that way , because it's that's , you know , most of the stuff that people watch .

The vast majority of the videos where people are watching are not on a computer but on uh on a phone and I feel like um uh horizontal or I guess landscape is more for like 30 , minute , 40 minute long long format yeah , uh-huh yeah yep , where most of the things that we're doing is three minutes or less I feel like tiktok really changed the attention span for

us .

I learned that from tiktok yeah , well , yeah , I learned a short form and then also um , I'm also doing those green screens and I learned that from you yeah , I learned that from tick tock and I and I noticed that , like , I used to do five minute videos and one of my friends , um , she works for a team and I'm not gonna say her name because I don't want

to make her feel bad , but it was one of the best pieces of advice that she ever gave me . I went to Kansas City I feel so bad because I went to Kansas City and I did a video , a vlog of our day , and it was a seven-minute video . I thought I know , I thought that was a cool thing .

And then I asked her I was like , what did you think of this video ? And she doesn't work for the Royals , she works for another team . But I was like , what did you think of this video ?

Like , be completely honest with me , like , pretend you're hiring me and you like really need me to do really well so that you look like you did well , what is the best advice you can give me ? She goes if I were you , I would have taken that seven minute video and made seven one minute videos .

And I was like , oh my gosh , like yeah and so so , yeah , so like these short takes , these quick cuts almost like cutting your sentence at the end , when you're saying a sentence like people like that now and I would have never known yeah , like I don't do I like .

Yeah , so like , let's say I'm eating a very juicy burger , get the three second clip of me biting into the burger , the juice dripping , duplicate it , move it to the front and then like , hey , come with me to las vegas ballpark to like eat this burger . Like , let that be like the hint or the thesis statement yes yes yeah , it's the hook , the hook .

So I'm trying to work on that and then move on to the next thing and learn which , I mean , this is an evolving thing . When it comes to social media , when it comes to content creation , you're always learning new things . I know it's everything . Every week is something different .

like the green screen . I want to encourage more people to use green screen because it really is a way for you to talk about it without being there in person . I'm going to do a quick like . There's a team that I requested videos from . I guess I can say the name Shout out Hub City , spartan Burgers .

Requested videos from , I guess I can say the name shout out hub city , spartan burgers . I told them to send me a video or photos of their burger toppings bar because apparently there's 101 toppings .

It is the largest burger topping topping bar like I don't know if it's like in the nation or in all of baseball , whatever , but I was like you guys have to send me photos of this and I straight up told them I want to make a green screen for this .

So they're like , we're gonna make it right even though it wasn't us . We're gonna make it right . So shout out to them you know that's cool , that was cool we need the unboxing that's what one of the I was just gonna say is like unboxing videos . That's another one .

Right like if you're able to I love them I love doing unboxing , but you got to do it right . You can't do it the whole long thing . I learned that , like you know , just cut out , like when you're opening , and all that , get all that fluff out of there . Cut when there's a this is book I'm listening to right now .

Um , uh , shout out to audible man , I , I listen to books . I don't read them , uh . But it's just like you know , when you , when you're done editing , go back again and re-edit and start cutting . Yes , because , yes , you're gonna cut so much crap out .

Yes , it's , it's insane how much stuff I cut out that's no longer , that doesn't need to be there oh my gosh , just having conversations with yourself that nobody else is gonna care about .

Yeah , yeah , yeah , but I was looking like ew who's gonna listen to this conversation with me ?

So if you guys are , you know I'll say this if you guys are doing YouTube , make sure you download the YouTube studio app . It gives you a lot of information there , like you know your trends . It gives you all of this stuff , right , um , that I never really thought about .

Uh , for example , it gives you some of like you know the tags that you can use , all of that . So I'm telling you it's worth downloading that one for sure . So uh , yeah I did switch up my um . My instagram is on the . I think it's the professional .

Now for instagram , I have a professional difference because of the um information that gives you you know , I mean all the insights it's . It's absolutely wonderful , yeah , like I mean you can tell , like your views , your watch time , uh , your interactions , uh if people are following you because of that video .

So , yeah , it gives you a lot of information , like from like who's watching the video followers

versus non-followers always right , yeah , that's what I'm I . I need to get better at when it comes to like data . You know , diving into data . I gotta get better at it , but it's , it's been , it's been , it's been a good experience for me for that learning how to read it yep , yep yeah what works and what doesn't work .

Right the videos that work and don't you know who's a really good follow .

So definitely I follow that . Well , yeah , is there anything that we haven't covered ? I mean , I think we did a pretty good job . We're pretty here , like over , about close , to be about an hour of conversation or content media , like , keep it simple when you're starting . Yeah , keep it simple .

Like I mean , if you'd want to do podcasting and you want to do it , like you know , on , like on location , and you don't all you have is a phone , all you need is this to be honest with you , I have this thing right here my little head jacks , uh . Or if you want to use your air , your um , your Apple air , um , yourods , do whatever you got to do .

You know , um , that's how I started , but obviously I love gear , so I upgraded to lavaliers and you know I got that . Oh , there's one thing I didn't show you that this is one of the perfect content creating . Uh , gears , there is , is a shore mv7's this right here .

So for our listeners it's like a mega lavalier , but it's a mini microphone , yep , and , and you can hold it like this and then you know , turn it , so that way you'll be able to see , you know , you can put your , you can put the microphone , you can put your um the light and all that .

So the shore nv7 , this is like your mobile podcasting , and then you can just put your phone on this thing , lift it and then boom , right there .

And then you know they're like , hey , who are you , what are you doing here ? I was like , oh , I'm sorry , here's , you know , I have a media pass , you know , and then it just says media with my Dead Hat Chronicles logo on it .

take as much as you can and when editing , think about it as from a viewer perspective . Am I gonna get bored watching this ? Is all this extra fluff that I because I I scroll when it comes to extra fluff and so I tell myself , if I'm scrolling with those videos , I know my videos are gonna get scroll .

Um , there is these two guys that I followed . They used to they're like they do crossfit , but like they do a lot of their . They do a lot of uh filming all that . It's called buttery bros . That's a good one to follow okay they do a lot of cool .

They teach you how to edit and everything too , like they've done a couple of episodes on editing , but they do some . They do vlogging right , so it's like what I want to get into more and they do a really good job when it comes to that , uh . Third one I gotta think about this one because I follow a lot of people . I follow a lot of lego people .

That also , um , they do a really good job with um , showing you like the camera from up top okay putting it together and all that . So that's something I kind of wanted to do . When I do an unboxing , put a camera up top oh yeah I can see , they can see what I'm opening . So like I haven't done that yet , but I I think I'm .

I have a hat here , a box , I might do that okay , very nice what about you ?

His name is anita's , he's based out of denver and I like him because actually I anita's the foodie and he does a lot of like just eating in front of the camera , just opening it up and taking and eating , and just not real fast , but like he just gets to the point when it comes to his videos .

So I've learned how to get to the point with my eating videos . I will say a video that I recently posted , I learned I did kind of with his strategy . Um , it was a video that I this one right here , the um sugarland burger that I did last week .

Yeah , I feel like he , I learned a lot of his strategy with this video really and then , I think , a third person that , like I really um . This one we didn't really touch on , but I feel like not editing out and not making it look so perfect . Alex Earl , but like you know who she is right .

Yeah , the ones that you don't think about that will go are the ones that go viral and the ones that you spend a bunch of time trying to get it , make sure that it's perfect , and all that are the ones that are like 12 years .

Yeah , that too like son of a bitch I know I'm gonna go cry , I know right I put all this work , you know , and I'm like whatever it is , what it is , but at least the other day of me at a bar at a lacrosse game .

I literally recorded it , cut it , posted , added the music at the bar . I had my phone like this , at the bar trying to choose a good song and by the time I closed out my tab at the bar trying to choose a good song and by the time I closed out my tab , it was already posted the next day

was already at a million .

I filmed it in the kitchen and I posted it in the kitchen at the Rangers game . No like what , no thought went into it .

like you've got all these views , and then you're like 20 views later on .

you so much for listening . We hope that you guys got some good tips from us right on what some of the things that we do use when you go to the ballpark , where you go to different sporting events , and things like that . I will put some some , some of the links . Val is going to give me some of her links so that way she can put them as well .

So that way , whatever it is like , you know , there's a lot of . Obviously there's some things that I didn't go into , like some of the lenses that I use right now that I add on my phone . To .

Like some of the lenses that I use right now , uh , that I add on my phone , um , you know , because I use this company called moment , uh , and they , with this case that I have , I can put a lens on it and then , you know , make it , you know , fisheye or whatever it is leave that link again oh yeah , I'll send you the link , so , but yeah , uh , and

then we'll see you guys on the next one . Don't worry , we got some cool stuff coming Some Sandlot baseball , some more other teams that are coming , some social media people . So , guys , stay tuned . We're going to bring you guys some more content here coming soon and until then , you know , guys , as always , I always say support the minor leagues .

All right guys , support the minor leagues , support the minor leagues Bye .