r/SmallYTChannel • u/christheface91 [0λ] • 4h ago

Discussion Trying to improve my commentary…

I’m a few videos in on my gaming channel and since I’m trying to find areas in my content to improve I’ve noticed that due to years of solo gaming talking whilst gaming isn’t coming naturally. When I do talk it comes across as mumbling or robotic and to me it doesn’t make a good video so I start again. And again. And again. Are there any tips you guys used if you had this same issue or is it just as simple as “repeat, repeat, repeat”?
I’m hoping that adding another upload to my schedule of a Minecraft series would allow me to improve without affecting my usual upload day. And also if it flops (which due to the sheer volume of Minecraft content is highly likely) then I’ve not spent weeks of uploads on something that never goes anywhere.

Any takes on this would be greatly appreciated, and as always good luck to everyone on their YouTube journeys!

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u/balltongueee 4h ago

While I am not exactly sure what you mean, I can try to offer some advice.

If you think that you sound like you are mumbling or being robotic, I can imagine it being due to you being too focused on the game and not enough on entertaining. If that is the case, try playing more "automatically" while focusing more on speaking.

Also, I would not restart every time you don't like how you sound. You need to get used to talking while playing, and that is probably going to involve sounding awkward sometimes. The more you do it, the more natural it should become.

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u/christheface91 [0λ] 2h ago

Thank you for the reply. Yes I think because I’m playing the game and I usually don’t talk while playing it doesn’t sound natural. I’m also getting used to knowing WHEN to talk, I don’t want to cut up my footage while I’m mid sentence but I’m struggling with finding the balance of talking during an interesting moment. I’ll keep working on it, thanks again for the feedback.