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Mt. Carmel SUN
Entertainment
B5
December 16, 2011
how to:
get famous on
Staff Writer Emma Glassman-Hughes and photographer Andrew Ramos
made a music video in order to gain YouTube fame, this is their story...
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Step 1: Decide on a topic
Emma Glassman-Hughes
Staff Writer
It seemed like a regular day in the
lives of two fairly normal teenagers at
Mt. Carmel. Little did we suspect that
everything was about to change.
We were soon to be recruited by our
fellow newspaper-ites to partake in a risky
experiment in order to find out just how to
get a video famous on YouTube, because,
nowadays, YouTube is the primary way to
get famous as an average civilian.
Day one: Junior Andrew Ramos, a
SUN Staff photographer, and I are faced
with the challenge. We accepted this task
of making a video.
This task had the potential of
embarrassing us half to death. The
pressure was on, but we persevered in
spite of it.
Probably the most important aspect
to think about when trying to make a
video famous on YouTube is the content.
Is it going to be comical? Is it going to be
inspirational? Is it going to be freaky?
When deciding on this topic, one
must search back in YouTube history
to see some of its most famous and
successful videos.
Step 2: Make a video
When we look back upon those
videos, we end up looking back upon
a whole bunch of cute little babies,
random crazy people, impressive, or
ridiculous, dancing, and extremely
popular music videos. Well, we decided
to take those ideas and combine them.
(Unfortunately, however, we didn’t have
any spare babies to use).
Day three: Now that we’d decided to
make a video of us dancing and making
strange faces to music, we had to choose
the music that we would use.
Choosing mostly well-known songs
is quite important when it comes to
trying to get the video to go viral, so
we chose songs by Lady Gaga, N’Sync,
Britney Spears, and Adele.
Of course, we realized that we
had to slip in one really odd song. The
song we chose is basically a bunch of
mumbling officially called Macaron
Chacarron, that isn’t as popular as the
other songs we used. We incorporated
this song mainly to provide some comic
relief, which is quite typical in really
famous videos.
Day four: After we’d created our
video and nearly passed out from
laughter, we created a YouTube account
and uploaded the video. As the wait
for our fame began, I couldn’t help but
check the view-count every day.
Step 3: Publicize and wait...
Spreading the video around
the Internet as much as possible on
your own is a key step in this process.
Keeping this in mind, I promptly posted
it on Facebook, and because of this,
we had around 70 views within a couple
of hours. I realize that 70 isn’t a huge
amount for YouTube gurus like Mr.
Higa, but for a little video like this, we
were fairly excited.
A few days later, our views nearing
180, I asked one of my friends to post
it on Twitter, because she has around
8,000 followers. We’ve now surpassed
200 views on our video because she
posted it on her Twitter account.
Getting the video around a good deal
on different social networking mediums
is very helpful in trying to make a video
famous.
It would be really easy to attain fame
with a video if you had a sizable online
following to begin with, however we did
not. Of course, if you can somehow get
Justin Beiber to tweet about it on his
Twitter, then I can practically guarantee
fame for you.
Day five: Your journey into YouTube
stardom has just begun. And now you
wait for Oprah to call you and ask you
to tea because your video has become so
famous...Andrew and I are still waiting
for the call.
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