Design Your Podcast Logo — Transcript

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1. 0:00Hey everyone, welcome to this video
2. 0:02tutorial for DigiCore
3. 0:05for logos. Okay, today we're going to
4. 0:07talk about logos. And logos is the
5. 0:10branding behind the podcast. But it's
6. 0:13not just about branding for your
7. 0:16podcast. It's about how to make things
8. 0:18that are useful online. If you look at
9. 0:21social media, there's lots of different
10. 0:23types of logos. If you look at Facebook,
11. 0:26I don't know if you're on Facebook. If
12. 0:28you're old like me, you're on Facebook.
13. 0:30There's heaps of different types of
14. 0:33images and logos. I think it's very
15. 0:36important because all podcasts have
16. 0:38logos. But I want you to learn how to
17. 0:40make one. you to learn the skills that
18. 0:43you can take into maybe have an auntie
19. 0:46who has a business or an uncle or a dad
20. 0:49or a mom or someone in your family who
21. 0:52needs logos, who needs information.
22. 0:56You can help put that online for them.
23. 0:59So, we're going to be using a free
24. 1:02online platform. Everything I do for you
25. 1:04is free and that's the way it should be.
26. 1:07So, have a look for vidmix.app. app,
27. 1:11vidmix.app.
28. 1:13Maybe your teacher or facilitator will
29. 1:15provide the link for you. It should be
30. 1:18inside your portal a link to vidmix.app.
31. 1:22vidmix.app.
32. 1:24And Vidmix is where we can do a couple
33. 1:26things. We can do podcast editing, but
34. 1:28we can also do logo creation. Okay. So,
35. 1:32first of all, let's establish podcast
36. 1:35logos. So, I'll open up a new page. I
37. 1:39take I type podcast logo
38. 1:42and look lots of different things come
39. 1:45up. Look at that. There's even a podcast
40. 1:48logo generator. Well, that's
41. 1:50interesting.
42. 1:51So, I don't know. You can maybe use that
43. 1:54if you want to. Let's have a look at
44. 1:58podcasts
45. 2:00in New Zealand.
46. 2:02Okay, here we go. Well, as you can see
47. 2:04here, each of these podcasts has a logo.
48. 2:08And
49. 2:10this is where we're going to just look
50. 2:12at the different This is a bit of a lazy
51. 2:15one. New Zealand history just with a
52. 2:16flag. Um, look, this is Kiwi. It's Kiwi
53. 2:21Bank. So, it's got some green because
54. 2:24that's what Kiwi Bank does. Just having
55. 2:26a bit of a look around here. True Crime.
56. 2:29You can see some of the design here. The
57. 2:31gone. They've obviously put a bit of a
58. 2:33sniper type thing in here.
59. 2:37Can we see anything else? Pacific waves,
60. 2:40a little bit of Pacifica designs in the
61. 2:42background.
62. 2:44So, I don't want you to get caught up on
63. 2:46it because you are learning and that's
64. 2:48okay. And our job today is to
65. 2:53learn together and have a bit of fun. We
66. 2:56are going to
67. 3:00have a look at my podcast. Okay, this is
68. 3:02a podcast that you might see in DigiCore
69. 3:06this term. It's called the one minute
70. 3:08mentor. So, here we go. Here's the one
71. 3:10minute mentor and you can see that this
72. 3:13logo here is one that I've created and
73. 3:16it's got a couple features, right? One
74. 3:18minute. So, I've used this idea of time.
75. 3:22I've kind of taken a reddish color which
76. 3:24you see here in my YouTube thumbnail
77. 3:30and I've had a bit of a play around with
78. 3:33it. But what I want to do today
79. 3:37is for is for us to have a look how we
80. 3:40can design a logo called the one minute
81. 3:43mentor
82. 3:46in this vidmix.app.
83. 3:50So, we load up vidmix.app. And this is
84. 3:53what comes up. Nothing. And that's
85. 3:55perfect because we're going to start
86. 3:57putting things in. Now, every logo needs
87. 4:00a background. So, we're going to look
88. 4:03for a background. My suggestion is we
89. 4:06have a look here in free stock photos.
90. 4:10Okay. And I just want to have a think
91. 4:12about what's a background. Well, look
92. 4:14behind me. There's curtains. What are
93. 4:16curtains on? Windows. What a windows
94. 4:19part of a wall. Okay, let's type in
95. 4:22wall.
96. 4:24Well, there we go. We're getting some
97. 4:25nice backgrounds. And I already kind of
98. 4:27like the look of this wall here. I
99. 4:29really like the look of that wall there.
100. 4:33Let's keep looking. I'm trying to think
101. 4:34to myself, needs to be kind of businessy
102. 4:37if it's one minute mentor, which is kind
103. 4:39of cool, you know, and
104. 4:44I'm going to pick something soon. I
105. 4:46don't want you to kind of get too
106. 4:47worried about making it perfect. I'm not
107. 4:50going to either. Our job is just to get
108. 4:53the job done, right? It's about those
109. 4:56credits, about learning fundamentals,
110. 4:58and let's just get on with it. So, I'm
111. 5:01going to go back up. I've had a bit of a
112. 5:03squiz, a bit of a look, and I'm deciding
113. 5:06I'm going to go for this kind of
114. 5:09chunky background. It's got a lot going
115. 5:12on, but I've got some tricks here. Now,
116. 5:14I just want to go over one more thing.
117. 5:16See up here, canvas. Canvas means if
118. 5:19you're going to do a painting that you
119. 5:21have to decide on the canvas size. And
120. 5:23this is the same here. So, click on
121. 5:25canvas. You'll probably recognize this.
122. 5:27The 96.
123. 5:29916 is kind of that kind of vertical
124. 5:33what you might see on social media. But
125. 5:36during Digi Core, during podcasting,
126. 5:38because we may or may not have some
127. 5:39video, video is mostly in 16x9 or
128. 5:43widescreen. So, we're going to be
129. 5:45working in widescreen.
130. 5:48Vidmix.app
131. 5:50comes to default in widescreen, so you
132. 5:53shouldn't have to change this. But let's
133. 5:55say your auntie, uncle, mom, dad,
134. 5:58someone in your family who knows you can
135. 6:00now do logos. They say, "Make me a
136. 6:02podcast logo." You might say, "What
137. 6:05canvas size do you want?" And that's
138. 6:08going to make you look really cool. If
139. 6:10you want square, if you want social
140. 6:12media story,
141. 6:14you get what I mean. Okay. So, let's
142. 6:16have a look here. So, I know that I'm
143. 6:17missing some size here in the corners
144. 6:20because it's widescreen and I've brought
145. 6:22in a square image. So, I'm just going to
146. 6:24grab the corner. I'm just going to
147. 6:25extend it. Going to grab the corner. I'm
148. 6:28going to keep extending it. Then, I'm
149. 6:30going to find an area.
150. 6:33Maybe I'll extend it a bit more. Just
151. 6:36drag down the corners. Drag it up. Yeah,
152. 6:40something like this is pretty cool.
153. 6:44That's what I'm going to do. I'm going
154. 6:46to have it like this. Okay. And so I've
155. 6:48got a background. And most people can't
156. 6:51get this far, but well done you.
157. 6:54Okay. So, what else do we need? Well, a
158. 6:56logo needs some text. Have a look on the
159. 6:59left hand side where I'm pointing to add
160. 7:02text.
161. 7:04Great. So, we're going to select that
162. 7:06text.
163. 7:07Notice it comes up down here. Everything
164. 7:10in the vidmix.app
165. 7:14works on layers. So, this layer down the
166. 7:16bottom, that's the picture.
167. 7:19When we clicked on add text,
168. 7:22that is the text above it. So if we
169. 7:25click on select it all then we can
170. 7:28change it. Now I'm going to change that
171. 7:30to one
172. 7:34min one min. Okay. So now I need to
173. 7:38decide what I want to do with that. What
174. 7:40do I want to do with that? I probably
175. 7:42want to have a think about a font. A
176. 7:45font is the type of font. You know this
177. 7:47is the default one. Let's have a look in
178. 7:50here. If I click on this little font
179. 7:52area.
180. 7:55Yeah, I quite like that. It's chunky.
181. 7:57Notice up the top here this little
182. 7:59mover. That's quite handy to click on.
183. 8:02That allows you to move things around,
184. 8:05make them bigger, smaller. Okay. One
185. 8:09minute. One min. Okay. Now, I'm going to
186. 8:13make another text layer. I'm going to do
187. 8:15the same. I'm going to select it and I'm
188. 8:17going to write the words
189. 8:20mentor.
190. 8:22And for this demonstration, I'm going to
191. 8:24use the same font cuz I've got a bit of
192. 8:27an idea that
193. 8:30just going to make it a bit smaller. So
194. 8:32it and put it under here. And I've got
195. 8:34an idea. I might put a clock or
196. 8:37something in there. So I could look for
197. 8:39a picture. But there's this other
198. 8:40interesting thing. Add GIF or sticker.
199. 8:43Let's have a look in here. What's under
200. 8:45GIF? GIF. GIF. Let's have a look. Clock.
201. 8:50I like GIF because one, they're kind of
202. 8:54like transparent, which means
203. 8:57they sometimes they cut out the
204. 8:59background for you. Let's just keep
205. 9:02having a look here.
206. 9:04Okay, I like this one. Uh, it's got the
207. 9:07background in it, but that's okay. I'm
208. 9:09going to make it a bit smaller.
209. 9:12Obviously, when you're playing around
210. 9:13with it, you can change things up. You
211. 9:16can move things around. I want you to be
212. 9:18creative. I don't want you to be
213. 9:20perfect. I want you to be creative. This
214. 9:22is my attempt to be a bit creative. So,
215. 9:24you can see one minute mentor. I don't
216. 9:27quite know what I'm going to do here.
217. 9:30Maybe I'll just have a look in GIF for
218. 9:34money.
219. 9:35Is that why I'm doing this one minute?
220. 9:38I'm not sure. Maybe.
221. 9:41Let's uh grab a little bit of a Let's
222. 9:45put this little money maker down here.
223. 9:49And then I'm just going to grab the
224. 9:50text. And one last
225. 9:55with
226. 9:57Will Fleming. That's me,
227. 10:01Will Fleming.
228. 10:04Going to change the font to
229. 10:10that. Looks all right. Going to select
230. 10:14my mover. Just find a spot where
231. 10:20can do that. Something like that. I
232. 10:23don't mind that. This is not my favorite
233. 10:25thing. I feel like it's kind of missing
234. 10:27a picture of me. I've got an idea for
235. 10:30that. It's going to open up a new site,
236. 10:33a new free website. And this might be
237. 10:35useful for you if you are trying to cut
238. 10:38out an image of you or your guest for
239. 10:41your upcoming podcast. You can type in
240. 10:44remove BG.
241. 10:47And what this does is it uses smart tech
242. 10:51to remove BG. Now I'm going to go find
243. 10:53an image of me that I took earlier.
244. 10:56There we are. That's me. Bit shorter
245. 10:58here, but that's me.
246. 11:01And I'm going to chuck that in there and
247. 11:03let the technology do the work.
248. 11:07Come on, baby.
249. 11:10Look at that. There we go. Then I'm just
250. 11:12going to download it. I'm happy to use
251. 11:14the free. Give me free all day. Just
252. 11:18make a note of the name, okay? And where
253. 11:20you download it to. I'm going to be
254. 11:22downloaded to my desktop. If I'm you,
255. 11:25I'm getting you or your teacher or
256. 11:27facilitator will get you to upload or
257. 11:30save your work to your cloud.
258. 11:32Okay, let's go back to vidmix.app.
259. 11:36Let's open file on the left hand side up
260. 11:38here and let's find that image, the
261. 11:41cutout one.
262. 11:43There we go. Going to make that image a
263. 11:46bit bigger.
264. 11:52And this is not the most perfect or
265. 11:56cool, but it's cool enough. And if it's
266. 11:59cool enough, that's cool enough for me.
267. 12:02It just shows you've manipulated the
268. 12:05software, that you've done a bit of
269. 12:06creative thinking, that you've tried to
270. 12:10make it work. I'm just going to add one
271. 12:11more thing to top it off. Give me some
272. 12:14more money. All right. Give me some more
273. 12:16money.
274. 12:19Where the money at?
275. 12:23That's stickers. Let's check gifts.
276. 12:25What's in the gifts?
277. 12:36Yeah, I can't really find what I want
278. 12:38here. Maybe falling money. Falling
279. 12:45money.
280. 12:47Oh, there we go. Okay, let's see what
281. 12:50happens here. Okay, I'm just going to
282. 12:53make that.
283. 12:55And then look over here, an opacity. I'm
284. 12:58going to lower the opacity.
285. 13:01Is that working? Or blending mode.
286. 13:06Oh, here we go. We're starting to get
287. 13:08somewhere now. Look,
288. 13:10these play a bit around.
289. 13:15So, screen.
290. 13:18Hey, that's pretty cool. I'm pretty
291. 13:19happy with that. So, look, it plays out
292. 13:22here. But what we want is to find the
293. 13:26screen that we're happy with.
294. 13:29And I'm happy on that still frame there.
295. 13:34Let's just move me can over a little
296. 13:37bit. Boom.
297. 13:41Okay. So, I'm happy with that. Now, what
298. 13:44I don't want you to do is click off
299. 13:46this. What I do want you to do is hit
300. 13:49export. When you're happy, hit export.
301. 13:53And of course, because we can use this
302. 13:55software for editing, we can do that.
303. 13:58MP4 is what your final podcast will be.
304. 14:02But we are interested in PNG. And the
305. 14:05clue is still. So, let's click on PNG.
306. 14:08Let's click okay. Let's name this world.
307. 14:13No.
308. 14:15One min mentor with Will Fleming logo.
309. 14:23That'll do for now. Maybe the portal has
310. 14:26a specific name for logo. What I want
311. 14:28you to do is save this in your cloud.
312. 14:32Okay, this is you will need this later
313. 14:35for your podcast or you go back and
314. 14:37design a new one for your podcast.
315. 14:40Let's have a look at this. Here it is.
316. 14:44Here I load it up and boom. I just made
317. 14:48this. We made this together and you can
318. 14:51do it too. All using this free software.
319. 14:56Do something that your friends can't do.
320. 14:58Make something cool for your family with
321. 15:00your new skills. Practice your logo so
322. 15:03that when it comes time to logo making,
323. 15:07you can nail your logo. you can edit in
324. 15:09your podcast and it will all contribute
325. 15:11positively
326. 15:13to your credits at the end of DigiCore.
327. 15:17I hope you enjoyed this little lesson
328. 15:20on making logos with me, Will Fleming.