I decided to tell you how the production of all my videos goes and what I go through. (Patreon)

It’s just more interesting to watch it from the outside than to do it all yourself.

I will break the text into chapters because it will sound more logical if I write each point separately, and not crumpled into one.

Chapter 1: Video Creation

Creating a video turned out to be not as simple as I expected. Previously, I had all the content at hand, where, first of all, it was more interesting to you than to me. When I was in Ukraine, crawling into bomb shelters was not that interesting to me, since I had been there hundreds of times, let alone going to Chernobyl. At the time of the hike, I wanted more to relax and enjoy the hike than to think every time about where and what to record. But the reason I did this was to get my hands on filming. I experimented a lot with what to record and each time I did something new. Maybe it wasn't visible in the video, but I worked hard on it. Now, having left my country, new opportunities and new places have opened up for me. But much of this is not interesting to you (as I see). I want to visit other countries and different places.

Chapter 2: Video recording

This is one of the simplest and most complex at the same time. Everyone already understands what format needs to be shot and it seems easy, but you need to think about unexpected circumstances constantly. It happens that I shot a video and thought “How cool it will look” and at the last moment, security or the police show up, take away my material and everything goes into the trash. Or I’m going to go to one very smooth place, and everything there is already destroyed. I spent time, money and figured out how to film everything, but it was all “spent.” There are quite a lot of such cases from these 2 options. Well, if you take ready-made videos, then in many cases, at the risk of serious arrest, I climb in to film the video. Most of the time, I enjoy it, but there are times when I need to make a video in order to promote my channel.

Chapter 3: Video Processing

Video editing, it seems to me, is one of the most basic and sometimes very dreary things. When I created the channel, I had strict rules for myself, which were the basis for my channel. Someday I’ll tell you my story about working with editing, but for me, entertainment and sound were very important. I myself do not consume content related to urbex topics. It seems to me that this will have a bad effect on me. I will unconsciously repeat all those tricks, as in other channels, and at some point, it will be a complete repetition. I am already being compared to other bloggers, although I don’t even watch them or rely on their experience.

Editing is getting more and more difficult for me. I've had burnout once before and it's slowly continuing. Only in some videos do I get new ideas and experiments, but I try to diversify everything. I will continue to edit myself since this is my personal story.

Chapter 4: Technique

Oh, this is the most nervous topic for me. I have always envied people who have money for equipment. In most cases, I found that in their case, it did not help them make better videos. Everyone had it, just to reinforce their status (I have it because I’m a blogger). I remember from my youth “I feel old already”, not many people had GoPro (at that time the newest one was Hero 4), I was very jealous because I wanted to film. And at the moment, because of this (I would say childhood) injury, I am pouring all my money into equipment for work. Don't get me wrong, I buy everything I need. I'm very conservative about all this. If I don't see the point in the technology I need, I won't take it. I am very glad that I can afford to buy a drone or a phone not for my own pleasure, but out of necessity to shoot better and higher quality video. But it seems to me that this race will be eternal.

Chapter 5: Conclusion

If I collect all the topics that I have covered, then I am convinced of the global work I am doing. This is necessary to prove it to yourself. Because in the eyes of others, it looks like it’s all very simple. But those who start any activity thinking that it is easy, begin to face difficulties. I am very happy with the situation that is developing. It doesn't matter whether it's good or disgusting. In any case, I will get experience and an answer on how to deal with this.