I'll cut the front and end of the video, that thumbs up is not going to be part of it.
The map actually has my previous routes on it, but I just used it, because its there. Most of the videos will be shot in the tent or in a hostel, but for the first ones that I can actually do at home, I wanted to show my equipment room (yes, I have an entire room full of stuff). The map was already there, so I used it to divide the picture. If photographie taught me one thing, its not to have the object of the picture dead center. Thats boring.
I dont have the bike yet, hopefully get it later this week, but certainly the next week. A video just with the gear, and one showing the bike is planned. After all, the bike is sponsored, and the videos are for one of my sponsors youtube channels.
I hope to get another GoPro, a Hero4 Black, sponsored. Otherwise I go with what I have, which is a sony cybershot and the hero3 white.
Its not necessarily that I'm nervous... you put me in a large group, or even on a podium and have me speak to people? No problem. But standing alone in a room talking to a camera feels decivifely odd. Its literally staged, and I am not comfortable with staging things... will be awesome on the tour. Imagine me cycling uphill, just to stop, get tripod and camera out, setting it up to record, cycle downhill again, just to cycle uphill again into the camera frame, then stopping to pack the camera back into my bags. Thats madness, its so fake. I've already been up that hill, people that watch the video must realize that I'm just "doing it again for the camera".
I guess the only (and best) way to get used to it, is simply to make more videos. And what you said about showing your passion and disappointment: NO WAY!
An offhanded "yes, that was ok." is practically the highest praise I give. After someone asked me how crossing the Sahara was (I had 3300km of headwind and there was mostly nothingness all around) my answer was "It was a bit boring." If I start with "that was the most epic thing ever, so amazingly fucking awesome you wont believe your eyes, the best ever", I couldnt live with myself. ^^