A nice performance day at the day centre in Congleton. Mike kindly suggested we perform two of my songs, 'Will You Be My Snowflake?' and 'Christmas Smells'. He really likes Snowflake and keeps pushing me to send it to influential people, but who and where?
At home, exhausted from lack of sleep if nothing else, I completed and uploaded the new Snowflake videos. I've decided to create two versions of each video for the first time; one with subtitles ('Official Video With Lyrics'), and one without ('Official Video'). For me, seeing the lyrics always enhances a video, and my lyric subtitles appear before the line is sung as a forewarning, then jump into place at the right moment, which is really useful if singing along.
Music videos on television, however, never have visible subtitles, these are optional via the television's system, so if I ever want my videos to appear with classical pop from the 20th century (yes! I've described 20th century chart music as classical - it truly is a world away from today's music), I'll need two versions; one with and one without subtitles.
I also have some videos described as an 'Official Lyric Video', such as Christmas Smells. This is used for simple animated videos where the words are the most important element, but even here I suppose I could keep the version without words as a sort of looping animation, something better than a still image of the album cover, which is the default for YouTube. I'll think about this.
All of this all opens up a possibility of remaking older videos for a second time and relisting those, which is lots of time consuming and tedious administration work. I've already made a start by renaming the current videos to match the new name convention. Most of my videos don't have lyrics, and about half are for instrumental tracks, so that's something. The albums which do have subtitles are the newest ones: Another Violet Night, The Modern Game, Tree Of Keys, The Dusty Mirror, and their singles.
