In an effort to get someone, anyone really, to check out my youtube vids, I thought this time I would give my latest effort a clickbait title, you know, one of those titles that, even though you know it’s nothing more than an exaggeration of the content, if not a downright lie, you still cannot help yourself from being baited and clicking on the damn thing.
Hence the title How Charles Baudelaire Really Felt About Edgar Allan Poe, with its insinuation that Baudelaire may have had some sort of beef with Poe, when in fact he, Baudelaire, was a huge fan of his, Poe.
However, for something to be clickbaitably irresistible, those who one intends to hook must have at least some familiarity with what the heck the bait even is.
Unfortunately for moi, I fear in this social media era of which we “live,” most haven’t a clue who Monsieur Charles Baudelaire is…
Leaving the bait to go forever unclicked, rotting on the hook.
As the late/great Mister Kurt Vonnegut used to like to say, so it goes…
Anyway, my goal is still to narrate my books; however, I have a lot still to learn in both the execution of the task, as well as the technology associated with it. Which is why I will be fooling around with videos such as the one above for a while.
Plus it’s, if not fun, then at least it’s not unpleasant to do.
The biggest lesson I learned with the above video is that I need to make sure all the narrative edits — the forgotten and mispronounced words, the lip smacks, the explosive Ps, et cetera — need to be taken care of before editing for sound quality, and all of those edits certainly need to be attended to before importing the sound file into the video editor.
You may or may not be able to tell exactly where in the video that I learned those lessons.
My bet is that you may…
Anyway again, I hope I don’t sound too much like a tool* in saying so, but if you assess the video worthy, how ’bout heading over to my youtube channel and giving it a thumbs up… and perhaps, you know, maybe even subscribing?
Merci!
P.s., You can read Baudelaire’s complete essay at the website of the Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore.
P.s.s, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
*yeah, I know, I know, un outil suis-je…