TechSpecsYT
2020-2021
My first proper creative endeavour was TechSpecsYT, my YouTube channel from between the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown of 2020 to late 2021.
The channel focused on tech reviews, discussion/video essays, and comparison videos, and it also led to a lot of cool achievements. To name a few:
1000+ subscribers
300k hours of watch time
Amazfit sending me a Band 5 fitness tracker
All of my videos were self-made, from planning, to scripting, to filming both myself on camera and shots of B-roll, to video editing and thumbnail design and maintaining a presence in the community.
This video best shows how I used to do all of this, and it most definitely taught me a lot of skills, all self-taught, all pre-ChatGPT.
Looking back, it definitely laid the foundation for my very self-directed creative work ethic, as managing all of these skills at once is certainly one balancing act and a then some.
As life returned to normal, however, I found that I struggled to keep up with making the videos, and chose to focus more on graphic design as that where my heart began to yearn towards… and well, as they say… the rest is history!