We plan on livestreaming some time pretty soon on Twitch, so I thought I’d do a quick run down on what we plan to do and how we’ll do it, on top of doing some research. I talked earlier about wanting to find out just how easy or difficult it is for the average person to stream something, as it links it well with the ‘amateur’ characteristic we’re responding to. From what I’ve looked at so far, it seems to be on the easy side.

My partner and I both have a PS4, which has a livestreaming function built in that can work directly with Twitch. Nat has a Playstation camera and we both have microphones – none of this equipment is expensive and we both already had it. It will be interesting to see how it turns out quality-wise and whether we run into any technical difficulties – it’s live so we won’t be able to hide them. I guess without the actual experience under my belt I can’t exactly say whether your average person can livestream yet, but it seems to be the case so far.

However, before we started I thought I’d look into what we might need to prepare. After all, the freely available information on the internet is just another part of what makes livestreaming so easy. Twitch itself has some beginner broadcasting guides, however they’re quite technical and unnecessary, especially for streaming on a console. I looked at some tips and other guides that gave a little bit of direction. There were a couple of useful things in there among the technical PC related talk like tips about what games to play and on-screen presence. Nat has been wanting to start a Twitch channel so she already had a few things made, such as channel art and descriptions, seen below.

Overall I feel as if we’re pretty prepared and have a vision of what we want to do – stream some games and be ourselves on camera then analyse it. This should hopefully respond to the amateur and livestream characteristics sufficiently and give us a lot to reflect upon.