Talking Head 😀│Astro Fécond

Reaction galore! 😁



From March 2022 to October 2023, I worked on a full-time basis (1 video a week) for Astro Fécond, a reaction-based YouTube channel. The channel's owner, Chris Conte, is a multi-potential YouTuber (he has four YouTube channels!) and fiction writer. To quote his YouTube banner, "let's explore the human genius together!" 👨‍🔬



Banner of Astro Fécond

An Astro Fécond video is made of a minimum of 8 "items" related to the main theme/subject of the video being reacted to and explained by Chris, followed by a "grade". ✔️





Before starting a project, I'll download the raw video(s) and have a Google Document containing the links to the items Chris is reacting to.

After that, what I had to do was usually the same for each project:

• Trim down a 50-ish minute long raw video to a maximum 20-minute final reaction video,
• Determine the sections with reactions,
• Add zoom ins, zoom outs, left and right pans to the other sections,



Zoom-out and zoom-in



• Reaction sources & royalty free stock footage,



Chris reacting to an item



• Graphics,



Logo illustrating Chris explanation



• Subtitles if needed,



Subtitle example



• Memes,



Reaction meme of popular French YouTuber, Squeezie



• The grade,



Chris "grading" an item



• The CTA outro,



The CTA end screen with the channel's logo



• Sound effects and appropriate royalty free music,
• Finally, export and send! ✨





To streamline the process, I use a plugin to remove dead air/silence from the raw video and edit each items individually before bringing them to the main timeline for export.

My personal touch was adding pop-up images at the bottom corners of the screen to emphasize something:



Pop-up of Steve from Minecraft



And possibly, visual effects:



Chris rotoscoped to appear in front of a class



Once the video is validated after revisions, it's scheduled to be released and I wait for my next project! 😉





Even if the process was streamlined, finding appropriate stock footage, music and additional resources could be time consuming. 🕐

The key was good organization and time management to meet the deadline!



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