Why black & white? It’s all about simplicity
To do things quickly, efficiently and well, I like to do things simply. Recently I was asked why I make my videos in Black and White, so I thought I’d respond in the best way I know how by making a video explaining it all.
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so I was asked recently actually a few
times why I'm making these videos in
black and white and not color well there
are several reasons for that how can I
go about this without sounding so stupid
okay it's all about simplicity about my
website it's actually about my
rebranding and I thought black and white
looked good on my website and how the
color video just looked a bit weird but
that wasn't the main issue the main
issue for me was I wanted to simplify
the recording of my videos because
obviously I make these videos every day
and I wanted to make them quickly and
simplify it and knowing me I wanted to
truncate everything in this process and
when I was doing a color videos I was
obviously doing a lot of grading but I
couldn't get the color right and it was
just irritating them Jesus out on me so
what I decided to do is like hey you
know my website the new branding the
website is black and white why don't I
make the videos black and white now I
did play with it for a little while just
to get the color the black and white
contrast right so I made them black and
white it wasn't because it's arty-farty
or anything like that the bits to do
with the branding and but mainly to do
with me making sure the coloring was
correct and instead of having to learn a
bunch of new stuff I thought I deal with
black and white and you know I'm often
told that I'm a yes you know like a full
in a full out person they don't have a
gray area black and white I Oh
in and out I'm very simplistic in that
way and what am I talking about this
the whole point is simplicity to make
everything you do this is what I do to
make everything you do as simple as
possible without going overboard without
making it look crap I mean I'm hoping
that this stuff looks good looking at it
my heads got cut off but I'm kind of
close to the camera so making sure
everything looks good and making sure
that the you know the output is actually
good that what you're selling what
you're doing is good but simplifying
every part of it and that's why I make
these videos in black on white again
it's all about simplicity and making
everything as simple as possible and
again also in color you saw a lot of my
I saw a lot of my spots and blemishes
and stuff let's put it that way and I
just thought it looked a bit weird so
again that was another point the reason
why I chose black/white it's all about
simplicity it's all about simplicity
simplifying everything with you know
obviously this this you know why talk
about technology and stuff so it changed
my technology to make it as easy as
possible to do what I need to do and
making sure that the output was just as
good as it would be if not better I
think anyway it's a weird with video
today and weird episode for you but
that's the reason why I'm making
black/white have a great day as always
keep it simple maybe doing black/white
and I see you tomorrow later bye bye