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Sneaky Lictor






Hi guys!

Me and my friend are looking to create our own youtube channel dedicated to Tabletop gaming. Content would range from painting videos, to making scenery to battle reports and as it stands I'm currently doing some market research so my questions to you guys and girls are -

1) What makes you subscribe to a youtube channel?

2) What are the most important things to you in regards to battle reports?

A Song of Ice and Fire - House Greyjoy.
AoS - Maggotkin of Nurgle, Ossiarch Bonereapers & Seraphon.
Bloodbowl - Lizardmen.
Horus Heresy - World Eaters.
Marvel Crisis Protocol - Avengers, Brotherhood of Mutants & Cabal. 
Middle Earth Strategy Battle game - Rivendell & The Easterlings. 
The Ninth Age - Beast Herds & Highborn Elves. 
Warhammer 40k  - Tyranids. 
 
   
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Clousseau




The hard part is that there are so many that its over saturated. You need to do something that no one else is doing, which at this point will be difficult.

Good luck!
   
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Fresh-Faced New User





Here is a list of my preferences and maybe some things for you to think about

charismatic hosts
nice tables
nice armies
many different armies
high quality camera work (i.e. many angles, properly displaying, ect.)
concise (around an hour is ideal for me)
unique army lists
professionalism like logos and proper intros

good luck
   
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Sneaky Lictor






Two great replies so far, keep them coming!

A Song of Ice and Fire - House Greyjoy.
AoS - Maggotkin of Nurgle, Ossiarch Bonereapers & Seraphon.
Bloodbowl - Lizardmen.
Horus Heresy - World Eaters.
Marvel Crisis Protocol - Avengers, Brotherhood of Mutants & Cabal. 
Middle Earth Strategy Battle game - Rivendell & The Easterlings. 
The Ninth Age - Beast Herds & Highborn Elves. 
Warhammer 40k  - Tyranids. 
 
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut




UK

A few thoughts:

A) In general;
1) Whatever you make be sure you've got good audio and lighting. Good video takes time and whilst there's a lot on youtube a majority have major issues. Dark lighting ;camera wobbling; camera too close to focus; unclear angles; inane chatter; distractions during the video;

2) Practice and have a script. No matter what you are making have a script to follow. It will help cut out a lot of the pauses, hmming and harring as well as mean that you don't forget something. Recording "in the now" might be quicker but it often produces videos that can miss key facts; rush things; add in elements you don't need etc...

3) If painting and showing each step make sure you've very good light and a good camera. Showing some fine detail methods or paint shades is hard and if you've poor gear and method then it can be all the harder to really show the viewer

4) If doing a walk through guide consider attaching the video to a written version so that you can provide notes for those following a long. Eg if painting then for each stage write down method and paint used and where so that someone who is using the video as a guide can check the notes. This is also a neat way to run the videos with a blog and link back to hte blog from the youtube page.

5) Try some ideas and see what works for you and have a clear focus of the channel. Regular releases of new material; a clear focus; good production. These are key things if you want to do this seriously. Videos at random makes it hard to build a loyal viewing userbase and if you've got videos on everything with no focus then you've got no clear target focus and you might also suffer from lower quality across all (whilst if you have a plan and focus you can generally achieve better results).

B) Battle reports
These are hard and there is a good slot for quality battle reports on the net.

1) You want steady clear video. You don't want "shaky cam" syndrome or wobbly viewpoints. Use a tripod as often as you can and remember that if you are recording a battle then expect the game to take longer as you spend time making sure the video is set up correctly.

2) Get to know your camera. Learn how well it focuses, how close and how far before it has trouble. Learn where the controls are, how stable it is (has it got anti shake to help with hand holding); how much light it needs etc.. Practice and play around and learn it well.

3) Audio. You want clear easy to hear audio. Don't slave yourself to in the moment only; if you've not got good microphones and especially if you are playing at an event or group or club where there's chatter in the background it can be near impossible (on a gamer budget) to get quality audio.
So do keep notes during the game instead consider doing the audio separate when you can record it clean and clear and provide a narrators overview to the game. This will often work better because you can leave out daft chatter and cut the video how you want and then fit the audio around it. It lets you cut out large chunks of chatter or distraction which the viewer isn't interested in.

4) Now how you record it is up to you. You could put the camera overhead of the table; you could move it to zoom in on each event; you could do a before-after single photo style and then use drawing tools to draw on the movements. There's no correct way save being clear what is going on and what is moving where and what has done what.
Dice rolls are also good to show clean (a dice box to roll into lets you get a clear shot of the dice and keeps them contained). Watch some other videos and see what works for you on this score.

5) Take notes during the game. This makes it a lot easier to review the match in editing of the video and means if you are doing audio over the top you can cleanly and clearly recall what is going on when it might be days before you get to edit the video.

6) Take your time especially for the first few videos. Even consider doing a couple purely as practice and take the day to muck around with different approaches and see what works and what doesn't work.

7) If you do any music or sound effects use Royalty Free/creative commons sources (there's loads out there look them up). This means you can legally use them without pay, often only requiring a link back in the video description and a mention in the credits of the video for the creators of the audio content. This lets you have some decent music without having it pulled from the video or having the video pulled by copyright claims. It also shows that you respect the creations of others which is important when you are creating your own works.



Spend time watching videos on youtube and see what you like; I'd recommend checking out the videos done by Wargamer Girl.

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Dangerous Outrider





Seattle,WA

Most of the battle reports online put me to sleep. Keep it concise and moving along!

Also, background noise from people filming at a shop or club is super annoying - loud talking from other tables and such.
   
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Decrepit Dakkanaut




UK

 Swan-of-War wrote:
Most of the battle reports online put me to sleep. Keep it concise and moving along!

Also, background noise from people filming at a shop or club is super annoying - loud talking from other tables and such.


Even if its not loud the buzz and hum of the noise coupled to a speaker not talking that loud and a poor microphone - all adds up to a poor quality result that isn't easy to view nor enjoyable.

Another bonus to separate audio is that you can use someone with a good voice. Not everyone has a good voice and some are really poor for voice recording. So if you can have someone with a clear easy to listen to voice to do the audio work.

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Dakka Veteran



South East London

All of the above suggestions pretty much sum up what I look for in a channel.

One other thing I would suggest is - Know when to edit.

I watch so many videos that are overly long and should have been edited.

For instance - we don't need to see every single dice roll in a battle report, and we don't need to watch you struggle to get the shrink wrap off a box in an unboxing video.

A good example of editing is StrikingScorpion82 (he's not perfect mind you but his is one of my fave channels).

He doesn't show every dice roll, but if there are moments where the game is changed by a dice roll he shows it.

Something else I like is a "hook" - in other words a reason to tune in.

Tabletop minions do "Every other Sunday" which is a live broadcast which makes me tune in a lot of the time.

I also think interviews with industry staff are interesting.

"Dig in and wait for Winter" 
   
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Rampaging Reaver Titan Princeps





Warwickscire

Well, for me:

- Host charisma - I've clicked off more than my fair share of battle reports because of poor delivery on the part of the host. Either a monotonous delivery or an obnoxious persona. Expanding on that, bringing personal in-jokes from your personal gaming group online don't often work and just jar.

- Player charisma and interplay - another important thing for me. I've stumbled upon my fair share of reports where one player was so monotone, and had no personality at all. One sounded so low that he sounded properly depressed. So, make sure you pick players that are personable and at least sound interesting to listen to. Also, a good interplay between players or player and host do make for a more entertaining watch.

- Smug or smarmy people - squash that! Smug or smarmy people makes me hate the report and more likely for me to click away. I don't want to see people gloating or boasting over their rolls or the damage they're doing to their opponent.

- Painted armies and beautiful terrain - goes without saying. A well presented setup with gorgeous paint jobs look great even if that battle is one sided.

- Army composition and scenario - running crush all netlists and the same scenario over and over make for dull videos. Run challenges between players and set limits and options. As someone mentioned above, do things that others don't do as often. For example with 40k, you could conduct City fights, bunker sieges, set limitations of lists or options, etc.

   
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Daemonic Dreadnought





Eye of Terror

I watch a fair number of battle reports. Here's how I decide what I will and won't watch:

- Do I need to watch, or can I listen? If the host can narrate the battle report well enough, I can listen while I am painting. This means I like Tabletop Tactics / Winters SEO / Striking Scorpion / Miniwargaming more than others.

- Do I care about the armies? If it's a CSM, R&H, DG, TS, or CD batrep, I will watch it. If it's Orks, SM, IG, DW, GK, etc, there's a good chance I will watch it (since I play them all the time.) If it's Eldar, Tau, Necrons, AdMech, etc, playing against each other, there's a small chance I might watch to learn something. But usually I have a specific question about these armies that prompts wanting to watch (i.e. new rules.)

- How long is this? I generally don't watch anything over 2 hours long. Too much of a time sink.

- How long has this person been doing this? I will watch a batrep hosted by someone who has not done this many times to see what mistakes they make. It amuses me. In general, if I am really trying to enjoy a batrep, the host needs to have done at least 10 before. That's when they get into the groove.

- Does this person respect the lore? Someone could have a nicely painted army, tons of great scenery, and be a fairly nice person overall. But I lose interest if that person is not acquainted with the fluff and just rolling dice. The 20 minute battle reports that show you dice rolls in a box bother me, there's no greater theme to keep my interest.

- Is this a marketing scam? There are some people doing battle reports who are clearly just out to build an online following. They mix their battle reports with news about tournaments, the latest goings on with GW, and generally present themselves as chuckling observers. They've never painted a miniature to a high standard in their life and they are learning the game as they go along. The comments on their videos are encouraging and aspirational. While that's nice someone is trying to make the game a little easier for people to get into, I have no interest in their channels and constantly report them for abuse. Batreps should not insult my intelligence or include desperate pleas for follows.

- Do they genuinely care about the hobby? The batreps I love are the ones where someone talks about some boring, technical part of the hobby - like basing, sculpting, buying OOP miniatures, green stuff, etc. Knowing that someone puts effort into being there makes their video worth my attention.

- Would I be able to put up with this person in real life? In general, I can't stand people who just want to be liked. I like people who are competent and authentic, and generally find these people lack some social skill. I will watch a battle report from a deeply flawed but technically competent host over a charismatic one any day. There's a couple exceptions to this, but they involve charisma and competence.

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Decrepit Dakkanaut




UK

Another audio thought, the range of sound levels. People like to set volume at a single level and leave it at that; so you want the sound to be at a sensible range of volume levels.

Ergo you don't want to have super quite and super loud in the same video. Your listeners don't want to be cranking the volume up to hear you talk and then cringing and turning it down for another segment. Balanced audio is important because if the viewer hs to keep tweaking the volume all the time they will fast give up and move on.

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FUN. I want to see the players having a really good time. That can make even 8th enjoyable for me.

A few battle reports I've seen fall into this category and they stand out to me, beyond camera work, good audio, good editing, the fact that both players where having a jolly good time just made me not care about any error.

Mind you though, bad sound can wreck just about anything.

I prefer the English accent, It is easier on the ears than most American accents. But if you fail to pronounce the soft "T" it makes me want to club baby seals. A soft "t" is not a silent "t" for the love of all things greasy.

Consummate 8th Edition Hater.  
   
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Sneaky Lictor






These answers are all fantastic, thanks so much everyone

A Song of Ice and Fire - House Greyjoy.
AoS - Maggotkin of Nurgle, Ossiarch Bonereapers & Seraphon.
Bloodbowl - Lizardmen.
Horus Heresy - World Eaters.
Marvel Crisis Protocol - Avengers, Brotherhood of Mutants & Cabal. 
Middle Earth Strategy Battle game - Rivendell & The Easterlings. 
The Ninth Age - Beast Herds & Highborn Elves. 
Warhammer 40k  - Tyranids. 
 
   
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Fresh-Faced New User




If you want what I'd want: 6mm/10mm/15mm gaming channels. A channel advertising the fact that bigger scale isn't always better.

I imagine you'd probably be able to get quite a few sponsors off that, too, and painting at that scale is really damn easy.
   
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Fresh-Faced New User



South Berwick, ME

As stated above good audio/video. But most of all passionate players. Animated discourse, fluffy battles, and players that know their armies (even better love their armies) nothing is more annoying then a mish mash throw together just to represent an army.
   
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Ultramarine Terminator with Assault Cannon






It’s pretty much all been said already.

1. Personality. The absolute most important aspect is personality. You don’t want to lull your viewers to sleep, but don’t be over the top (e.g. The Long War)
2. High quality camera work
3. High quality audio
4. Nicely painted armies
5. Amazing terrain
6. Armies without spammed units
7. Variety. Must be able to change up the armies and the terrain.
8. Avoid hokey music and visual effects (this is of course subjective). Music and visual effects are important, just don’t make them lame, over the top and/or over used.
9. A studio. I don’t want watch you play in your living room, garage or unfinished basement.

A great example channel is Tabletop Tactics. These guys make the best bat. reps. in my opinion.

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Charing Cold One Knight





Sticksville, Texas

I find it hard to describe, but I have three favorite channels for two different reasons.

I LOVE the Tabletop Tactics guys, they try really hard to give you good games, and have fun doing it. Their table set-ups are generally pretty ace, and they keep me engaged. I have watched all their freeviews because they are good learning experiences, although at times they run some pretty casual armies, they like to give a spattering of different units to showcase them. They also do a great job of catching mistakes, and let you know in the videos.

I also enjoy Mountain Miniatures Gaming because unlike Tabletop Tactics, I expect jolly shenanigans from the host and his guests. Their narrative games are also good to learn from, because it is interesting to see how things perform in VERY abstract scenarios. He is just pure fun, and his more competitive builds are an interesting thing to see.

I also like Phil the Glacial Geek, he tends to have more competitive minded games, but is also a blast to watch play. The added cut scenes add greatly to the game, and his play is generally pretty darn tight and accurate. I like how he is also more than willing to dial down his lists to experiment against a less competitive minded player.

The rest feel like filler content between new videos from those three channels, as I use them only for background noise. That also has a place in what it is that I am looking for in bat reps, as the three channels I listed I generally keep as the main focus of my attention when they are on. Sorry if that doesn't really answer your question.
   
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Executing Exarch





1) Decent audio and proper lighting, wobbly phone footage and undecipherable audio is far too common on Youtube

2) Painted Armies and passable tables with decent scenery

3) Keep battle reports under 90 mins or so

4) Rules fubars will happen, try to catch these in the edit and stick an explanation on-screen

Best of luck

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Owns Whole Set of Skullz Techpriests






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I've been watching a lot of Winters SEO recently. I watch the description of the scenario, I watch the showcase of both armies... and then I close the video.

So what do I want in video reports?

Silence.

The most effective video battle reports I ever saw had no talking whatsoever. They had evocative music, a few bits of text here and there, and (still camera) shots of what was going on. Hell, one of them even put in sound effects and whatnot.

And great terrain. If you don't have good terrain, might as well not show up.

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Deranged Necron Destroyer





So, I just started my YouTube channel and have been basically reading this thread like the Bible. Everything everyone is saying makes a lot of sense and if taken on board can actually make quite a good YouTube channel.

If you guys are interested in seeing how I did in my 1st ever recorded battle report then please follow this link - https://www.dakkadakka.com/dakkaforum/posts/list/754292.page

If this comment goes against the threads rules then I will happily edit it if needed.

Again, can't thank everyone enough for all these great comments.

I have a Youtube. Rage Against The Imperium. Here is the link if you are interested - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC0WxDMsMyI7WcChiSfApB4Q

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Unpainted Models / No terrain = I have no interest in watching

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Battleship Captain





- Personality is the most important thing. I'm generally very fussy about this which is why I basically don't watch anyone (on any channel wargaming or otherwise with any regularity) near enough. Honestly the only people I actually LIKE is Ash from Mini/Gurilla Wargaming and Bone from Tabletop Tactics. Both because they seem like genuine, cool guys who aren't trying too hard. The other people from the Tabletop Tactics annoy me or are incredibly bland and Laurence especially seems like he's trying to hard to be entertaining by having catch phrases ("Thats mathematics.") and being repetitive. I don't need to hear how a dice roll is "huge, people" five times in one report.

- Army lists should be varied. Back when the Daemon book came out for 8th Ed every battle report for like a month was just nurgle or nurgle/khorne. I still don't think I've seen a batrep with Slaanesh in it. The primary purpose is to entertain so don't just play lists filled with the things the internet has deemed as good. Take varied lists and make sure you have a decent collection. Again Tabletop Tactics is clearly suffering due to only having a collection comprised of models the internet has deemed worth taking because lists for certain armies are generally pretty samey.

- I'm actually not that fussed about how well painted models are. We can't all be master artisans or afford to have our models commision painted. As long as SOME effort is put in to stem the grey tide I don't mind. Same goes for scenery, not everyone can have amazing looking boards but if the minimal amount of effort is put in then I don't actually mind.

- I can't think of any batrep I've watched where sound quality was an issue but excessive back ground noise is always an issue. A lotnof Warmahordes batreps are filmed on game nights or at tournaments and it can make it difficult to hear whats going on and its annoying when random passerbys interject their thought on a game or one of the players talks ay someone across a room

- I genuinly don't think static camera works for 40k. In Warmahordes its fine because keeping track of postitioning is important, its more technical and the use if 2D terrain makes it easy to see whats going on but 40k is more theatrical and casual and I feel like handheld camera works better for that.

- Length should be about an hour. Its not unusual that I'll watch anything over that but unless I'm particularly interested in the lists or the game is close I'll usually lose interest about halfway because the winner is clear.

Additionally FOR THE LOVE OF GOD keep the intro short. I really hate the trend of lengthy intros that seems to be emerging with "cinematic" shots of the the models and terrain and then each player spending 20 minutes explaining their army in great detail and the video is 40 minutes in before the battle even starts. If you MUST go into detail do it in a seperate video. I think its WinterSEO who spend like 10 minutes explaining terrain and making up fluff for the battlefield on the spot. Like why? To pad the video length?

- Here's one no one has mentioned. No one else really does this but StrikingScorpion82 has an insane number if ads per video. I think I counted one with 19 of them once. 5 or 6 is enough in a 2 hour report.

- Make sure everyone is a good sport. I suppose this ties in to personality but if a player isn't having fun it shows through in the battle report as well. Personally however I love it when bad losers are on camera. I dunno why but its hilarious to me, it shouldn't be something you strive to include but for some reason seeing a sore loser try to contain their butthurt over losing because they're on camera is super entertaining to me.

I can't really comment on other aspects of stuff like unboxing or painting because I don't watch those videos.


 
   
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Regular Dakkanaut



UK

There was a good period when 7th ed Kill Team came out and there were lots of Kill Team Bat Reps. I think I've watched every one on youtube before 8th came out, as well as playing Kill Team at Warhammer World at an event.

Why? Bat reps were 20-30 minutes, easy to follow, and it was hard to cheese. I don't want to sit through two sets of 7 flying hive tyrants vs 3 Shadowswords with bubble wrap.

You need decent sound. The only batrep I did got a reasonable number of views because it had Rick Priestley in it, but what seemed like dull background noise at the time was a constant roar on video.

It's a trial and error thing. The first few videos you do will be really rough because you will be learning about sound, trying out different angles, and learning your editing software.

Check out my youtube channel at www.youtube.com/channel/UCc8CECcBOeCO-srhlUwf_lQ 
   
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Decently-painted armies/ terrain and entertaining banter between the players (who are clearly friends and enjoying themselves) are crucial for me.

Good sportsmanship, as well. If a dude forgets to shoot a unit, starts his charges, then remembers, I appreciate the opponent letting them do that. Not interested in rules lawyery or YMDC-style nonsense, either.

Sometimes I like when dice rolls are skipped to save time, other times I want to see it all. Especially when a cultist takes down a knight or something like that.

Having a pleasant voice helps (not everyone has one), as well as effort to convey emotion and not sound monotonous.
   
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Foxy Wildborne







I hate the type of battle report that's just shaky cam zooming from dice tray to dice tray giving us thrilling shots of dice being thrown aroundwith no context because they cut out the movement phase "for length".

I like heavily narrated reports with people explaining their tactical choices and reporting the outcome of major decisions rather than giving us action shots of every dice roll.

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Variety!

having an army that you play same list everytime/game and against your friends same, I feel mixing it up w a good variety of opponents and evolving their own lists draws me in.

I like MWG, they're pretty good on average but sometimes it's a little too much.

Winters is probably the best one with ss82 right behind.

both of them have an eye for when to film stuff and when to cut out dice rolls/move/pay, etc.


   
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Things that turns me off:

Bleak lighting

If it's recorded at a shop/tournament

Bad sound

Ugly models

Dull armies - like 300 boyz

Bad/shaky camera

Ugly terrain

I also tend to mostly watch what I play myself, like orks and I mostly don't care about length, I'll just skip boring stuff. In that regard it's important that he/she (probably he) explains their actions and reasons for doing stuff, since I want to learn from it.

Oh, and I'm also a sucker for converted stuff, given that they are good. So if I see a beautiful converted tank, stompa or something else (even just forgeworld stuff) I tend to tune in.

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Make sure you are really safe in the rules departement, nothing turns me off more than game-changing rules errors or people who play armies they have no clue about.

And dont record BatReps in a crowded venue like a shop or something, if you want do do something like that get proper mics to cancel the background noise.
   
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Nottingham, England

Be concise. Too many YouTube videos are basically just gamers with fake laughter or nervous laughter.

Edit it. No way with rolling footage is all of it any good.

Explain what's going on ,

Persaonally I think the wargamergirl bat reps are some F the best because they are edited, explain the army selection and info during the game, good sound and it's not just video of a board.
   
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Sneaky Lictor






This is has been amazingly informative, I appreciate all of it so much

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Warhammer 40k  - Tyranids. 
 
   
 
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