Last week I found myself scrolling on the web and came across a Youtube Shorts featuring a minecraft discord session including Joe Biden, Donald Trump and Barack Obama. Witty jokes and political references were quite funny and the voices were truly convincing.
I thought it was clever and wanted to give it a try. I don’t play Minecraft anymore so I opted for another theme, a service I was working on and wanted to promote through a funny Tiktok on the same basis as the Minecraft Shorts.
Goals
- Experiment KDENlive and get confortable with basic video editing
- Test out the voice model from ElevenLabs
- Slow my aging process by trying out Tiktok
- Promote my service through a funny format
Process
- Generate the voices
In order to achieve the same results as the Gen-Z Shorts, I had to identify the service used for such a good voice rendering. A few clicks lead me to ElevenLabs, a leading service when it comes to custome voice generation. Once the 5$ subscription paid for a 50 000 caracters volume, I got started and had to import samples of the voices I needed. Browsing their subreddit got me clean voice samples for my protagonists.
- Write the dialogue
A Youtube Short is SHORT and so must be the dialogue. Trying my best to limit an obnoxious promotion of my service as well as a push for a political agenda, I wrote a few catchy lines ending on a minecraft reference and an open question.
- Edit the video
The last time I spent on a video editor was probably for a Call of Duty fragmovie on a cracked Sony Vegas editor back in middle-school. I forgot quite a bit about it but was almost finished in 2 hours. Working on KDENLive was truly a great experience. I found it quite pleasant to use and I expect more advanced user would find more advances functionnalities. The community is quite active and I found all the answers I needed easily, mainly through short Youtube tutorials.
- Publish the video
Once done I shared it on Tik tok (web version). I did expect to come across a dedicated video editor but it may only be available on mobile which would make more sense.
Results
- By learning how to use a video editor, I have gained confidence in my ability to create videos that could attract young recruits if my boss were to request them (joke).
- The final product was quite convincing in my opinion. The quality/time spent ratio feels quite satisfactory, please judge below
Review
Trump’s voice is too low compared to others. Which does not sound quite realistic. At the time of publishing I was also wondering about the extent of the law when it comes to such situations. Might open up the door for a dedicated blog someday.
Hope you enjoyed, feel free to reach out !