New England Yankee

[Leo Voisine]

I have another channel called New England Yankee. Not much there right now but I want to post more stuff there. I don't think I will ever be a weekly poster like some other "travel" channels but that channel will be about New England. Leos Workshop will not go away, but will not be postings about New England.

So I am interested in what are your thoughts about what is interesting that you guys watch - if at all - about videos about "touristy" - "travel" - "visit places" - "exploring" of places our places.

Income per capita?
Population density?
Home values?
Ethnicity?
Watch the road as I drive?
Side Streets?
Bad sections of cities?
Rich neighborhoods?
Me showing face time and talking about the area?
NO face time?
Talking heads?
History?
Old towns?
Country roads?
Foliage?
Waterfront?
Drone?

Do you like an entrance opening leader video
Do you like a quickie entrance talk by me saying hello and talk about the video?
Do you like a quickie exit talk by me saying goodbye?

Music incorporated into video?
ASMR?

--sorry I don't do people interviews

What is it that you like?
What is it that you don't like?

What would you like watching?

 

[Leo Voisine]

I guess nobody has anything to say about this. It's OK - I know it is WAY off topic.

 

[Darren Wright]

Just catching up with the morning coffee here.

I personally like hearing about what others like about where they call home. Stories about growing up in the area and history on how things came to be. Stories don’t have to even involve talking, sometimes just the journey is enough, let the images and video speak for itself.

I also watch a lot of trades videos, where folks share their skills on the trades they’ve worked for many years and do some really basic projects with mostly hand tools. Latest has been “Sheet metal is fun” and some metal forming with “Make it Kustom” as they do cover a lot of just hand work projects and show how some of the more advanced tools make those jobs easier.

Relaxing music is ok, acoustic, themed to the story works well, otherwise I tend to click away pretty quickly.

 

[Mike Stafford]

I would enjoy learning about your part of the country. I have spent a limited amount of time in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine. Limited means 2-3 weeks. I have visited all the New England states but I spent less than a day in most of them.

I would enjoy the scenery both along the water and inland. I love beautiful landscapes. Not so sure I would want to read or hear about the demographics.

Income per capita? Nah
Population density? Nah
Home values? Nah
Ethnicity? Nah
Watch the road as I drive? Yeh
Side Streets? Perhaps if they have visual interest
Bad sections of cities? Nah
Rich neighborhoods? Nah
Me showing face time and talking about the area? You have a pleasant face
NO face time?
Talking heads? Only if they add something to the story
History? Yeh
Old towns? Yeh
Country roads? Yeh
Foliage? Yeh
Waterfront? Yeh
Drone? Yeh

Do you like an entrance opening leader video I don't know what that is exactly but if was explaining where you were then Yeh
Do you like a quickie entrance talk by me saying hello and talk about the video? Yeh
Do you like a quickie exit talk by me saying goodbye? Quickies are always good.

Music incorporated into video? Yeh, particularly if it is music relevant to the area.
ASMR? Perhaps..

--sorry I don't do people interviews

What is it that you like? I like learning. I like to learn something new about an area, the history,
What is it that you don't like? I have no desire to watch anything sports related.

What would you like watching? People doing jobs showing unique skills or occupations

 

[Leo Voisine]

That is some awesome input.

One of my favorite craft shows is the annual Deefield Craft Show.
Not really big - but it is really cool.

Old Deerfield Craft Fairs - Home

The Old Deerfield Craft Fairs are organized to benefit the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association, a non-profit dedicated to the preservation of crafts and the history of our surrounding Deerfield area.

www.deerfield-craft.org

It is in north mid - a little west of Ma.
Rt-2 is one of New Englands most scenic route, and in the fall is spectacular.
The Craft show is just off Rt-2

This is beautiful area in Ma.

Additionally, we will go to Yankee Candle

https://www.yankeecandle.com/south-deerfield-village.html

This is an unbelievable experience.
Think it's just a candle store - uh uhhh - nope.
Yes of course they have candles for sale - thousands of them.
Yes they have model trains running around
Yes they have a Christmas Village
Yes outdoor activities

I don't know for sure when the video will go up, but I will let you know.
I will do my best to incurporate suggestions from previous posts

Any more thoughts and suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

 

[Ryan Mooney]

I dunno.. You probably shouldn't listen to anything I have to say on this one as I neither like nor really understand the appeal of the more popular youtube channels (which is why I didn't respond on the first round)... So if you're looking to make it a popular show I don't really know.... Everything below this is probably wrong.

I guess that's not 100% true, "sampson boat co" and "clickspring" are moderately popular and I still like them. A lot of channels kind of end up with an excess of pandering though as they drift further from "informational" and more into "promotional" (which doesn't really seem to hurt overall popularity and sometimes kinda seems to help it? Like I said.. IDK.. haha).

I guess I personally like seeing folks who are legitimately passionate about something interesting sharing it, with a slight edge for me on "people doing things", but local history and information about spaces and places is also interesting. I'm not a huge fan of the talking head things although I know other people certainly are so I'm certainly not going to judge either way on that one.

 

[Leo Voisine]

Ryan I get where you are coming from and I do appreciate your comments.

For me

As to making money on youtube - ain't gonna happen.
You need at least 1000 subscribers and a gazillion view hours
I will never reach that level - not even trying
Even at that level I could make maybe 10 cents per year.
I have given up on trying to be a "Youtube" channel.
Not trying to grow a channel

I like to play with cameras and software to edit photos and make videos.
Some people like to paint, carve, and other artistic stuff.
Some like woodworking
I love New England.
Just one of my hobbies.

I like people to watch and enjoy my videos - nothing more than that.

I like watching videos that people make, and there are things I like and don't like.

I am just trying to make interesting videos - nothing more than that.
Like showing a beautiful Chippendale piece of furniture I just built.
(I am not a furniture builder)

 

[Mike Stafford]

Leo, if you make a good video the people will come. If the people come I see no reason why you shouldn't make a buck if you can.

Personally I hope you make a gazillion bucks.

 

[Ryan Mooney]

I am just trying to make interesting videos - nothing more than that.

Yeah I think at the end of the day it kind of boils down to what people consider interesting. If you're doing it for fun and personal enjoyment then I guess I'd make the ones that are interesting to you and heck who knows maybe they'll be interesting to a whole bunch of other folks as well (and if not.. at least you've still accomplished the primary goal ).

 

[Leo Voisine]

Like painting a great picture. I will make my videos, but some input from the audience is always good as well.

If you are a stand up comedian you want people to laugh.
You do what the audience wants in order to get them to laugh.

 

[Mike Stafford]

I have a story about a truck load of candles from Yankee Candle.

When I was in college I had a job as a part timer on the loading dock for a trucking line. There were quite a few college guys who had managed to get a part time job at this company. We were on call. When they called you came in. If you didn't they didn't call you again. We could only work 32 hours per week according to union rules. Most of our work came on the weekends and on third shift.

I received a call to come in one Saturday morning. I showed and saw that virtually every other part timer was there as well. I wondered what we were in for.

The supervisor arrived and told us to follow him. We marched down the loading dock and out into the truck yard. There was a rag top trailer sitting all by itself on one side of the yard.

He opened up the back doors of the trailer and almost immediately we were assailed by the pungent odor of a million scented candles.

It seems that this trailer got lost. The dispatcher or whoever was responsible for making sure the trailer ended up where it was supposed to be had overlooked it and it had been sitting in the yard for at least a week in 90+ degree heat. The candles had melted, run out of their packaging and had formed a sold mass of melted wax, perfume, and cardboard.

Our job was get it out of that rag top truck. As I said it was over 90 degrees and we had to crawl in there and with axes, mattock, and shovels remove all of that mass of wax, perfume and packaging. It was hotter than Hades and the fumes were enough to gag a maggot. The reason we were all brought in is that he didn't want anyone passing out in the back of that trailer and dying. So we rotated in and out for 8 hours and chopped and shoveled out about two-thirds of that trailer. The floor was slicker than snot and the wax was soft underfoot. We were drenched from head to toe.

The next day we had to come back and finish. The wax coated the floor boards of that trailer and even with a square shovel we could not get it all up.

If I never smell another scented candle it will be alright with me. This might have been the worse job I ever had. Most of the time I enjoyed loading and unloading freight. I mean we were all about the same age and our job was to catch up the dock by unloading all the inbounds and moving the freight to the outbounds. Sometimes we just had to move it to right bay and drop it on the floor behind the correct trailer. Most of the time we had to stack it "to the ceiling". With a bunch of college age jocks (we were all jocks) we worked really hard to catch up and then spent the rest of our shift shooting the shift if you know what I mean.

 

[David Johnson]

Leo you post and we will come. They have a comment section so suggestions will be made. You do your thing and we'll see how it goes.
David

 

[Leo Voisine]

Mike, I can't even imagine that melted candle job. I burn Yankee Candles in my house and I love the scented candles. All melted down and mixed together and concentrated would be another thing.

I am also planning what we used to do some years ago. We will go to North Conway N.H this year. There is a huge fall event, a train station built in 1874, scenic train ride, a beautiful downtown, lots of fall color, and we will explore the Kancamagus. The Kanc as it is affectionately called is what an old logging railroad has become. Beautiful mountain vista, cool NE air, and the Saco river.