What's with this trend of the on-camera personalities on YouTube not looking into the camera when they talk? Are you trying to make it look like someone is interviewing you? OP, your video production quality is great (except for the jittery emulation footage, as mentioned by Black Tiger) but for God's sake look into the camera.
Well the reason I stick to this style is because we often have multiple speakers, and I interview. I do the same the myself. Its the style ive chosen as yes, i always wanted to come off more like a TV show than traditional youtuber. Check out our Alien Storm, Crazy Taxi or Ghostbusters Sega Channel episodes for example of multiple speakers.
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You don't have to defend your style—it was established decades earlier
Long before YouTube, documentary/news/TV aesthetics had been established: the "talking heads" of the earliest shows/films became a stale, cliched format...so new ways to interview were pioneered/developed (looking at an interviewer—who may or may not exist—off-camera, to better communicate the atmosphere of a natural conversation).
As always, when audiences see a style/formula that is overused, it is natural for them to label it as "derivative"...when I first saw your show, I had my misgivings, too. "Oh no," I thought, "not another show like this." Of course, the quality of the content will win over the viewer, even if they find the style/formula of the show hackneyed.
It would be funny, IMHO, if you parodied this style by being both the interviewer and interviewee (of course, this is an old idea). You have to play it completely straight for maximum effect.
