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The San Matean
With more than 4 million views on his channel, student Kenneth Roque seems to have found the key to making a successful YouTube video.
Roque's remake of "Love Language," an original video by the Jubilee Project, has more views than the original video.
The Jubilee Project is an organization that focuses on creating videos to raise awareness for issues associated with human rights such as deaf children in America, refugees in North Korea, HIV/AIDS and more.
The video shows a boy (Roque) who meets a girl, played by Jackie Nguyen, while sitting together on the same bench and starts to communicate with her through writing on post-its until she reveals through sign language that she is deaf.
"A friend of mine had a random video project for school. We came across the Jubilee Project and we thought we should remake it," said Roque.
Roque's remake surpassed the original video by 3 million views. Other remakes made by different filmmakers have yet to reach the million view mark.
"It's still flattering when people recognize me at times," said Nguyen, 16.
"When we released the remake and started getting a lot of views, (The Jubilee Project) emailed me and thanked me for remaking the video," said Roque. "They're really thankful I helped them raise awareness for deaf children in America."
Roque believes that the key to have a successful video on YouTube is to understand that viewers have a low attention span and that constant change in scenes is necessary, he said.
He will continue to make videos as long as people keep watching, said Roque. "You just gotta know what people like to watch at the moment."
Roque looks for sad songs that will sync perfectly with his videos, he said."I mainly base my videos from the song that I'm using. I don't make the video and then look for the song. I look for a song and then make the video. It's like looking for a story," said Roque.
"The young filmmaker finds his inspiration in people, many of whom are fellow CSM students, that come up to him and ask him to post more videos. "I thought it was cool to get lots of views, but then people started recognizing me at school from YouTube and they kept asking me to make more videos," said Roque.
Roque considers himself a romantic. The videos are not situations that have happened to him. In fact, he's been single for a year.
Roque, who plans on majoring in Business, only sees film as a hobby. "I would love to do film as a major but knowing the industry, it's pretty hard to be successful in the field. Although I've been successful on YouTube already, I'm still convinced it is pretty hard," said Roque.
"Working with (Roque) was really fun. We've known each other for a while so it a little bit more comfortable," said Nguyen.
Roque's success on Youtube has helped him become well known around campus.
"It's great when people you don't even know come up to you and tell you those things," said Roque.
I was invited to do a meet and greet with a bunch of other YouTube
celebrities at Galileo High School. They played a couple of my videos while the others played music live," said Roque.
To view Roque's remake of Love Language and more videos, visit BootiHole's Channel - YouTube.
With more than 4 million views on his channel, student Kenneth Roque seems to have found the key to making a successful YouTube video.
Roque's remake of "Love Language," an original video by the Jubilee Project, has more views than the original video.
The Jubilee Project is an organization that focuses on creating videos to raise awareness for issues associated with human rights such as deaf children in America, refugees in North Korea, HIV/AIDS and more.
The video shows a boy (Roque) who meets a girl, played by Jackie Nguyen, while sitting together on the same bench and starts to communicate with her through writing on post-its until she reveals through sign language that she is deaf.
"A friend of mine had a random video project for school. We came across the Jubilee Project and we thought we should remake it," said Roque.
Roque's remake surpassed the original video by 3 million views. Other remakes made by different filmmakers have yet to reach the million view mark.
"It's still flattering when people recognize me at times," said Nguyen, 16.
"When we released the remake and started getting a lot of views, (The Jubilee Project) emailed me and thanked me for remaking the video," said Roque. "They're really thankful I helped them raise awareness for deaf children in America."
Roque believes that the key to have a successful video on YouTube is to understand that viewers have a low attention span and that constant change in scenes is necessary, he said.
He will continue to make videos as long as people keep watching, said Roque. "You just gotta know what people like to watch at the moment."
Roque looks for sad songs that will sync perfectly with his videos, he said."I mainly base my videos from the song that I'm using. I don't make the video and then look for the song. I look for a song and then make the video. It's like looking for a story," said Roque.
"The young filmmaker finds his inspiration in people, many of whom are fellow CSM students, that come up to him and ask him to post more videos. "I thought it was cool to get lots of views, but then people started recognizing me at school from YouTube and they kept asking me to make more videos," said Roque.
Roque considers himself a romantic. The videos are not situations that have happened to him. In fact, he's been single for a year.
Roque, who plans on majoring in Business, only sees film as a hobby. "I would love to do film as a major but knowing the industry, it's pretty hard to be successful in the field. Although I've been successful on YouTube already, I'm still convinced it is pretty hard," said Roque.
"Working with (Roque) was really fun. We've known each other for a while so it a little bit more comfortable," said Nguyen.
Roque's success on Youtube has helped him become well known around campus.
"It's great when people you don't even know come up to you and tell you those things," said Roque.
I was invited to do a meet and greet with a bunch of other YouTube
celebrities at Galileo High School. They played a couple of my videos while the others played music live," said Roque.
To view Roque's remake of Love Language and more videos, visit BootiHole's Channel - YouTube.