Streamingskolan Part 5: how to create your first livestream – NordicHardware

the Theory is over, now it’s time for your first livestream. We go through what you need to do for a successful first live broadcast. Today start your streamingkarriär.

After that we have now passed the greatest part of the theory in how to start your own streamingkanal, it is now high time for the next step. It is now time to create your first livestream. The focus will not lie in having the best possible videokvalitén without your first livestream will cost you as little as possible. The most important thing for you at this stage is that you’ll be up and running and has an approved quality on the streamen. Most importantly is that you feel right and comfortable with wanted to. The longer you are going in your career, the more you can spend in equipment to improve quality.

We did not check in depth in this part, but just the basics for you to be able to make your first livestream. Don’t miss the previous parts of the Streamingskolan:

Note: Before we start, I want to apologize for this part has become prominent for a longer time and is not complete quite yet. A series of mishaps delayed the streamingskolan and these events may come in a separate article. Now we are hopefully on track again and streamingskolan is back. I am very grateful to all of you who have heard of and expressed interest in continuing parts. Now we take the new tag and hope that we don’t have more unexpected stop. Also this is a lesson for all the streamers, everything in life is not possible to plan or prepare. We will however do our utmost in Streamingskolan to both of You and we’ll get away mishaps in our live broadcasts.

Here you see the setup used during the streamingskolan. We will use different parts at different times

Studiokvalité

Soon it is time to, for the first time, start your live broadcast. The first thing you should have in mind that this is your first step into the streamingvärlden. You do not need to sit in a room built for streaming. It is perfectly possible to sit in the bedroom, living room or any other room. Nor does the lighting and the sound recording is the most important thing right now. The important thing is that you start the stream and then gradually improves your streamingmiljö as time passes. Initially, you will have so few viewers so that you need to put your focus on the content and interaction with your viewers.

Your first stream

We will at the end of this article to have a recorded video on how a first stream can look like. In our own "first stream" we are sitting in a guest room. The only extra equipment we have a cfl equivalent to 85W and that provides for a cooler (whiter) light to the camera light to be able to keep good quality and for that our face should be clearly visible even when the web camera is a small box in one corner. The image below shows a common example of how it looks when many new streamers start to his career. The most important thing to keep in mind here is a well-lit room. Fixed to have it a bit cleaned may not be at a disadvantage there, either.

this is a common example of how it may look in the beginning of a streamingkarriär.

Light

During your first time as a streamer railing it many times to sit facing towards a window so that the daylight will come straight against you. If you are not able to the good light from the window, you can for example replace the ceiling light against a stronger lamp with a cold light. The better the light you have, the better quality you will get out of your camera.

the Light is often the most difficult to get to in a good way and can be almost impossible to get perfect without the extra lights and tripod. The ljusuppsättning I will use in the streamingskolan cost about 990 online at www.amazon.de and includes 2 stands with umbrella, each with 2 LED lamps, equivalent to 85W, and a smaller stand with a lamp to brighten up my face.

This example ljusuppsättning gives more than adequate light and covers most needs.

Audio

When it comes to audio you need a microphone that does not pick up too much background noise. This is because your voice should be clear and that background noise should not interfere with the experience for the viewers. Microphones that we will use in this article series are the Razer Seiren Pro and the Turtle Beach Elite Pro with Noice Cancelling microphone. There are many other microphones that are perfectly adequate so start to test with the one you have. It is said that your first stream. Also keep an eye out in the coming Streamingguiden where we will test different microphones and streamingutrustning.