It all depends upon whether you'd be able to live with knowing your not being who you really are on youtube. I believe that guy philip defranco uses philip defranco as his stage name and there's others who act and potray characters on youtube. It mainly all depends on what you want to get out of doing it and what you have to offer.
It would be like me and the character both on the channel. I would do my own stuff and I would bring the character in at times too, but people would know. And what I want to get out of it... I just want to have fun!
I wanna try something I've never done before.
Careful. Sometimes YouTube "characters" become self-aware and go off and make their own channel.
Why not give the character their own channel once they're known or even when they're not known? I mean, if you can do something totally ridiculous, a ridiculous character, and people would think it was for real, wouldn't that be kind of awesome even? Haha.
A friend of mine has a crazy homeless character that he uses for skits.
One of my favorite youtubers has two characters he uses pretty often. One is a nerd rage nerd and the other is a derpy southerner.
I considered making a character, myself, that would be a bit self absorbed and think of themselves as a total bad ... forgot the rules on cursing on this forum but you get the idea.
Having a character would be cool, but I doubt I'd be able to keep it up for long. You would have to be a good actor and be able to hold your focus on the project (which is usually where my friend has trouble, but he is a great actor).
But it doesn't have to be like the character's there all the time, does it now? Also, I had kind of a similiar character idea actually. I've been thinking about it. My original idea was actually a male character but I wasn't sure how I could pull that off because of my voice, so now my new idea is a female character, but I think she would be sort of goth or something along those lines and she would have the "I don't give a damn" attitude at almost all times. And since I'm getting a new webcam soon (should be HD), I thought perhaps I can work with it somehow so I could even film some kind of movie-like clips with it, because one of my ideas was that this goth girl would be like my roommate and that we wouldn't like each other at all.
The whole idea came from the fact that I really like acting, but we don't have any acting classes or anything where I live, it's such a small place, so I thought why not do this on my own then? Why not create a character? Just for fun because I enjoy acting.
