Streamer Case Study 1

I sent some time watching streamer FatherRageT who when I hoped on his stream was playing a scary game that I didn’t get the name of, but it was interesting. The thing I noticed first about his stream was the engagement he had with his viewers, he had about 200 viewers when I started watching but they were all engaged in the game. His commentary on the game was the most engaging thing about the stream as he played along he would be expressing things about the game and his feelings about it, since it was a scary game. He voiced everything that was on his mind as he played, his frustration with it, his excitement, and even his need of using the restroom. At one point he did leave the stream to go to the restroom but there was a surprise when he came back, his roommate was waiting for him in the closet and because he was so busy engaging with the viewers he was severely scared that he threw his mouse.

On the other side of looking at his set up he had a normal set up, it looked like he had 2 screens one with the game and the other with the chat going. He didn’t have the chat on his screen like other streamers I have seen but they had them so they can personally see it. He did have a camera on him with minimum lighting mostly just coming from the screens since it was a scary game, the ambient needed to match. He used a microphone and a separate head set for sound, he didn’t use a green screen just had a camera pointing at himself as he engaged in the stream. Overall it looked like a simple set up just with slightly higher quality camera and mic.

After his stream ended I did stumble upon something I haven’t seen until now which was a vtuber (virtual youtube) it was very interesting to watch a anime character be the twitch streamer. There is a real person behind there but you would never know their real face and I found that super interesting, for someone like me who hates being on camera for any reason at all it gave me a little hope to be able to stream. I even started looking into how they do these avatars to see if I can actually use it to start streaming for this class instead of myself being on camera.