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@Kung Fu Steve Thanks so much for the reply - this is some golden advice.

Take this small bit for instance: <snip>


You're telling people "Here's the reason you can't finish what you start... and that is perfectionism..."

Even that point right there you're trying to hammer -- when you SAY perfectionism, there's a weakness in your vocal cords and a tightness in your neck. You're delivering the word but there's no certainty behind it.

You're trying to convince ME that perfectionism is my problem but it SOUNDS like you're trying to convince yourself. Does that make sense?

Yeah, I totally get you!

Interestingly when I'm speaking people face to face, I usually get the opposite (confident) to the point where I can say random false things and get people to believe me (for clarity, I do this as a joke and not because I'm trying to trick people).

I don't think that confidence has completely followed me over to the camera yet.

I'll try and focus on my tone and inflexions in my next video.

I definitely also notice my voice getting higher as I go on, that needs to be sorted too.

Here's a good practice tool (and if you're up for recording it, put it up here and we can do more).

I want you to say the words "Click the button to subscribe now."

Oh this sounds fun! I'll give this a go.

I live in Japan so I don't think I'm going to be able to shout at the top of my voice (thin walls, neighbours will call the police) but I'll do my best.

I'll post it on here when I record it.

Thanks again for your input.
 
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OK. I'm up for it. Here's me chatting about doing talking head videos. I decided not to do talking head videos for the channel(s) I want to setup. I'll do screenshares and voiceovers instead.

Curious what you guys think @Prodox, @Runum, @Kung Fu Steve.

Nice! I'll comment on stuff that I have some knowledge about, so I'll take a look at your set!

It looks likes you're using natural light, and have the window positioned to the right of you so it lights up one side of your face more than the other which is the kind of lighting I like :).

It does look like the window is quite low though, as the underside of your chin looks more lit up that the top side of your head. People tend to look nicer with light coming from above rather than below.

Your sound is surprisingly good seems as you are recording with a phone. I'm not sure how you did that, but good job, haha. If you wanted to improve it, putting a lowpass filter on to filter out frequencies below 100Hz, and running it through a deesser to get rid of some of the harshness in some s and ts.

If you are going to be voiceovers it might be nicer to get deeper into this, for example taking out some of the less pleasant frequencies in your voice or amplifying some of the higher frequencies to brighten up the sound a little.

One thing that could use work is your background. You want the background to look attractive without distracting the viewer from you and you also want to pop out from it. Maybe choosing a different location or hand up something in the one you are using there?

When you are using natural light it's hard to control the location, because you need to be by a window and have it at a decent angle though. If you are going to have a camera of you when doing voiceovers in the corner, it might be a good idea to get some form of cheap lighting like a cheap LED panel with a diffuser.

Also, by the way @Kung Fu Steve I don't script by videos word by word. I write brought bullet points that I want to hit, then I make up the speech as I go. I do however script my hook (the first couple of sentences usually) because I think that part is important. Maybe I should script it a bit more heavily? I am limited by time though...
 
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I don't do talking head video because I would rather show them and do the voice over. Some of my earlier videos were me working and talking at the same time, no voice over. It was hard to keep my train of thought and sound intelligent while working.

I also tried recording some of my science lessons and it was difficult for me to get my personality on video. To me, I didn't sound the same nor did I control the audience the same. Probably I was subconsciously trying to convince myself that the recorded lessons would work. I over compensated by trying to be charming and commanding. This was MANY years ago. LOL

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ASCMGHPUM&feature=youtu.be
 

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Ah. I’ve just remembered you are/were a school teacher. I presume this was aimed at kids in school?
Yes, just retired.

Your video makes more sense to me if it was intended for a subscriber.

From my perspective, if I really want to convince my audience that a point is important I have to engage them not only intellectually but emotionally. The emotion can be the whole range and needs to vary quite often. So, if I make my audience giggle they will engage and maybe remember something of value. They may want to come back again. If I make my audience sad they may remember something of value and want to come back again. I always wanted my classroom experience to be the subject of evening conversations. I wanted my audience banging on my door demanding more and it worked for me.

However, I see different audience, different message, different speaker, different approach. That's cool. Again I am reminded that we all see and experience things through our own lens. Interesting.
 
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I think your stuff is actually really good. And the more you practice -- the cleaner it'll get.

While you may not be scripting it... you are doing cuts every few seconds and I can tell that the purpose is not just to re-engage the viewer.

I agree your call-to-action need to be the strongest part so I would practice and script that with more certainty. The better you know your subject matter, the more confident you will sound with or without a script... but when you know your subject matter that well -- you tend to say the same things over and over again... so even without "scripting it" you are definitely "scripting it" -- you just might not be writing it down.

Here's a super brief video I did off the cuff:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x1Irvq1bA8&t=5s


The context is that someone just opted-in to get training for their team.

You'll notice I'm looking away and doing some stumbling... I actually did that on purpose for this video because when I did it straight through it seemed really robotic and too fast. It's certaintly not my best video but what I wanted to point out was the part "after doing so many of these, there's really only 3 problems. 1. 2. 3."

Looks authentic. I like the energy. Great focus on the camera. The stumbling adds to authenticity, looks like you are thinking while talking. Very strategic. Every nuance of the video is dedicated to its purpose, no wasted time or energy. I like it.
 

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This week I tried to focus on keeping my throat relaxed to get a better vocal tone... I've never been happy with my voice (it's pretty high), but I'm working on trying to improve it.

Here's Roger Love. He's the guy Tony uses, I've done his trainings myself. You can easily change your voice by tightening/loosening, speaking more nasally or deeper.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXdXlUkFmgo&list=PLuIZ6Q0SDiRSXT2GYukyjOKxgxBO3ta4D


But here's one thing I *can* share with you. In the martial arts we always practice yelling (and even talking) from the diaphragm -- not the throat.

When I'm speaking for 4, 5, or even 12 hours a day -- my voice would never be able to hold out if I used my throat AND I'd never be able to project a powerful voice to an audience with or without a mic.

I also tried to put jump cuts in more deliberate places, rather than just using them as a thing to cover up mistakes (although I still cover mistakes with them, haha).

This time around it seemed a little bit too distracting.

Keep in mind, you're not only lapping the people on the couch -- you're crushing them. You're putting out high quality videos and are light years ahead of most personal development folks. Give yourself a little credit but I love the hunger to grow!

I still need to level up my broll game - I'm finding it hard to think of good broll ideas to film myself in my one room... but maybe using more stock footage would be a way around this.

View: https://youtu.be/LCu30W5ijms


This is a video with some B-Roll. It was supposed to be a promo video for private workshops for small companies. I'm not a huge fan -- it was my 4th workshop that day, I had started on the road at 5am and this is me speaking at 8pm after driving from Tampa to Miami (after doing 3 other workshops). I'm sweating through my shirt. I look like a bum. BUT with all that being said I think we got some decent audio and the energy comes through.

Maybe you like this and it gives you ideas -- or maybe you have advice for me here for future videos!

I feel like sometimes my energy is low in the video, although it didn't feel like it when recording, maybe I need to overemphasise things a little?

YES. I'm glad you caught it. Video and audio is tricky to portray energy. You almost have to go overboard. Try swinging that pendulum again and speaking way too loud -- over the top and see how THAT looks on camera.

(But your "over the top" that you're thinking right now is not over-the-top enough. Like REALLY be too energetic, smile obnoxiously, be overly excited to be on camera)

I think if you watch yourself doing this, you'll start to see that there's a middle ground between where you are now and obnoxious level. Know what I mean?

Also -- tonality is huge. So far the videos (this one more-so) have been very monotone. Don't forget you're talking to people, not a camera! How would you raise and lower your voice? When it comes to an important point -- change tones. Go up. Go down.

This is an entire conversation about how to do it well and when's appropriate to do each but play with it and you'll see!

I've also started to think that maybe some quiet background music would make the video more engaging...

View: https://youtu.be/jan-L1u76vE

I'd steer away from it right now.

I think you have some raw talent here and if you hone that talent you won't need music. But if you start using crutches now... you'll never develop the strength to stand on your own.

Make sense?
 

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I don’t want to distract you from your path. I’m going more down the ads route, but some of what I’m learning might help.

This is a great podcast about creating scripts for video ads:

This is someone’s Facebook Live video where her energy, knowledge, content, and desire to help overrides everything else:

View: https://youtu.be/WkFzYct_bFE



Here’s the latest video of mine that took me about a week to create. I’ve yet to run ads to it (actually, it’s been upversioned a little bit):

View: https://youtu.be/BUVSIyVryA8
 

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Here’s the latest video of mine that took me about a week to create. I’ve yet to run ads to it (actually, it’s been upversioned a little bit):

View: https://youtu.be/BUVSIyVryA8

If I may butt in -- I definitely wouldn't run traffic to this.

Not because it's not valuable or high quality -- because it IS... but simply because if you think about it... the person who would be attracted to this video would never buy your stuff anyways.

"How do I create a google ads account without a credit card"

Someone who would look for this is a seriously bottom-of-the-barrel type person.

Yes, yes. We are all valuable and I love everybody... but holy shit man -- you're going to struggle to get $5 out of this type of person.

I've seen you've got some skills. Why not attract people who have money who would actually spend money on ads?

A series of ads "Have a $1,000 ad budget? Here's what you should do with it to get the best results."

Then a $5,000... and a $10,000...

And your entire pitch is "Do you want help with that?"

I'm re-launching my business course and not just privately to fastlaners but all over.

I'm going to do a $97 masterclass and the entire class will be "let's build your plan to double your revenue this year" and at the end I'll say "if you want me to help you implement this plan for the next few weeks, sign up here."

Even if you told them EXACTLY what to do with $1,000 or $5,000 or whatever -- you know they aren't going to do it... AND anyone with that budget is going to want to hire it out anyways because they're freaking busy (me too!)

Anyways... advice you didn't ask for but there it is!
 
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P.S. (and not to detract from our friend here) -- I've recently been through a couple of these courses from a fairly famous traffic team... who deals in funnels... and traffic... their course is $30,000... and it's literally copy and pasted from other expensive courses. On top of that they were so lazy they forgot to even change some of the stuff that had other people's names on it.

They do $2 million per month in sales.

There's more than enough room for people who are outstanding at what they do at any price point... and it's much easier to charge a higher price point to serious business owners.
 

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I'm familiar!

In the Tony world we call it CANI (Constant and Never-Ending Improvement).

2 millimetres is hard to catch in a person. Try standing straight, putting your finger in the center of your sternum, push it all the way out so you're standing ridiculously straight and "confident" with your chest out... feel that energy and then slowly drop your sternum and try to tell where the energy drops in your body. You'll see what I mean
 

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Try standing straight, putting your finger in the center of your sternum, push it all the way out so you're standing ridiculously straight and "confident" with your chest out... feel that energy and then slowly drop your sternum and try to tell where the energy drops in your body. You'll see what I mean
I’m guessing that’s where you train to punch folks too Mr Kung Fu?
 
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You're definitely getting more comfortable!

Out of curiosity what if you taught less per video?

I've noticed the brain works in 1-2-3-many. People tend to get overwhelmed after 3 things and it's TOUGH to keep them engaged as it is, let alone keeping them engaged when they are overloaded.

Does that make sense?
 
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You're definitely getting more comfortable!

Out of curiosity what if you taught less per video?

I've noticed the brain works in 1-2-3-many. People tend to get overwhelmed after 3 things and it's TOUGH to keep them engaged as it is, let alone keeping them engaged when they are overloaded.

Does that make sense?
I was wondering if the videos could be shorter. I don’t know if I’m the target market (likely not?). I do know I’d pick the shortest video to explain something. (Bear in mind I’ve not watched any video start to finish @Prodox.)
 

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OK - this time I kept the video to just 3 points reducing the time to sub 8 minutes.

I'll be watching how the shorter video affects my click-through rate, which is what I assume it will have the biggest affect on.

View: https://youtu.be/94bKPlz8_UY

I'll have to come back but dude, you're getting too good on camera.... why have an entire minute of B-roll before we see your face? You could literally just cut that first whole minute and jump on the screen "here's thing number 1!"

Energy is definitely getting better.. keep gong!!!
 
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I was partly modelling it off a channel that I like whose videos are entirely talking head with pretty much no visuals at all, but I guess it doesn't work for my content.

I see. Interesting... would you mind sharing this channel you were inspired by? Maybe we could learn something from dissecting why their content works as just a talking head...
 
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This is an example of one his videos that has... well nothing other than him talking at the camera.

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLBCerAlk8I
Yeah, Nick Nimmin has 633k subs. If you look at his first videos 6 years ago he did a lot of graphics. He didn't start out as a talking head, he grew into it. Now, he can post crap and 10k viewers will watch it. (He doesn't post crap, just using that as an example)

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-kQiJpVFgIA


Looking at the video that you posted, it is true that he is talking but look at his shots. Sometimes he is center screen sometimes he is right screen. Sometimes facing straight at the camera, sometimes facing to our left. He moves his hands and makes gestures. He changes the screen between paragraphs and points. Sometimes he is face in the screen sometimes he is further away from the camera. He is also very animated in his facial expressions. He sometimes talks fast and sometimes slows down. Overall he is doing more than just talking.

Sorry for the edits, I keep coming up with more thoughts.

When Nick is on video he commands your attention using his voice and other features. This is a skill to learn. I taught school classes for 16 years. I took command of my class through voice, facial expressions, body language, etc. The students knew that when they were in my class it was time to work and learn. We had fun doing it but they were expected to do their part.

As a suggestion, if you are aiming to be a talking head, are you comfortable talking in front of strangers in public? If not, you are going to have a difficult time with selling it. You may want to try out Toastmasters for a year or so. They specialize in helping people with confidence and public speaking challenges.

Again, you are doing well. You are learning. I am not shooting you down. Keep on working on your craft and you will improve.
 
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OK, watched the start of a couple of videos. Good work. You've lots of potential. I like the professionalism already (intro, meat, outro, end-screens, thumbnails <<< the stuff I don't really do yet!).

It was recommended that I do similar talking head sections throughout my videos, but I found it way too much hard work so have decided to go off at a different tack. I'd like to be able to just sit down, record, lightly edit (or get someone else to lightly edit) and publish. I record screenshare videos with Loom all the time for clients and prospects so I just need to make it as simple as that. (It's a shame Loom messes with the mic gain of my nicer mic though!)

A lot of my content lends itself to screen capture videos so that helps me not be on camera other than as a little webcam in the corner (which I may not always do anyway). My gut also says that, because my content can be highly technical in nature, that videos being less polished can be a good thing.

Consider putting a tiny bit of ad spend behind your videos? I know @Phikey doesn't want to do that with his channel, but that's what I'm going to do with mine (a brand new channel, not my Andy Black channel).
 

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What is something that I have learnt so far?
Don't put in any clear giveaways that the video is about to end. Things like specifically stating you are summarising and ending the video, outro music faded in before the end cards, etc.

When I did this I saw a SIGNIFICANT drop at that very point, which apparently hurts you in the eyes of the algorithm, and it means that they won't see your end screen with playlists, subscribe and your next video button. And if they don't see that, they are less likely to watch more of your videos and subscribe.
Ha. Good learning.
 

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Here is an example of the kind of videos I put out:
Great video. I recommend trying switching the camera angle or positioning so there's more variety on the video. If you check @Valier's thread you'll notice one of the key components of his success is how is videos are both long and full of variety, whick keeps the users from getting bored.
 
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Much better. Lots of visual changes. Great progress. Better presentation.

One nuance I noticed, I turned the volume down and put the speed up to 2x, sometimes while you are talking it appears that you are shaking your head no. Very subtle but something to look at.
 
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Could be. You have to be self aware of any subtle messages you may be sending with face or body language. Your total message must be congruent to be believable. Anything that is not in alignment will negate your message. Just food for thought.
Thanks - will definitely keep it in mind :)
 
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How I am choosing video topics and titles

So it's Saturday, and that's the day that I plan and record the footage for my weekly youtube video.

I've just come up with this weeks topic and title, so I thought I'd post a little on how I'm currently doing it.

My channel is focused around productivity so that already narrows things down quite a bit.

As I go about my daily life, ideas come and go - everyone has ideas, the problem is that most people forget them. The solution to this is to write them down, so whenever an idea pops into my head, I write it down in my Notion.

When it comes to Saturday I take a look at my list and pick a topic that I feel like doing.

Topics sorted.

The hard part is the title and keywords that I'm going to target.

For this I use a website called answer the public to get some ideas. Sometimes I get a nice base to start off, often though nothing on there inspires me.

Either way, the next step for me is to head over to tubebuddy's keyword explorer. There I spend some time fiddling with phrasing, vocabulary and ordering to find a longtail keyword that has a good rating.

I'm still a small account and I don't get much traffic to my videos to get them to higher spots.

Because of this, I figured I'd aim for low competition and low search volume. Low search volume is still well above the traffic I get at the moment, and high search volume keywords are dominated by big channels.

My thought process is that I will pick up the crumbs that larger channels leave behind until I grow strong enough to start taking slices of the cake.

Using this I come up with my video topic and title and I can start planning the content, which I'm about to go and do now!
Nice. Thanks for sharing your process.

Maybe also look at the Google Keyword Planner to see what people are searching for on Google. They don’t quite search the same on YouTube, but it can give other clues, and maybe your video can rank for searches on Google too?

I do believe that suggested videos get more volume than searches in YouTube. What are the main channels and videos you’d like to show up after? Is there any way you can engineer it so that’s more likely to happen?
 

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I would like to elaborate on this a little.

Speaking or lecturing in public is basically theater arts. You are selling an idea to the audience and your job is to get them to buy in. Your total presentation is the message, your clothes, you body language, your speech pattern, everything. Your audience has been trained since birth to use their senses to observe. They use their eyes and ears to perceive a threat to their well being, fight or flight, or pleasure, or stimulation, or boring content. Your live audience will telegraph their perception to you through their body language and facial expressions. Then you have to simultaneously read that and make adjustments to align with the audience's needs. Failure to adjust will result in the message not being received well and no sale.

Recording a persuasive video is way more difficult, especially if you are not experienced in sales or public speaking. When recording you get absolutely zero real time feedback. You have no way to adjust the delivery to match the audience. The only feedback you get is comments or data. You have to assess the comments or data to make the adjustments.

So, take the example of head movement. Generally, if we move our head side to side it is considered to mean no or negative. If we move our head up and down it generally means yes or positive. If I am trying to convince my audience of the virtues of an idea and my head is slightly moving side to side my voice, oral message, and body language are incongruent. My message and delivery have to be 100% aligned to be believable and accepted.

With a talking head, head movement is probably desired because the movement is visually stimulating. However, that head movement has to be precise. The tilt of the head, the movement, the eyebrows, the shape of the mouth, the wrinkles in the forehead, it all has to deliver the message or the whole thing is a waste of time.

These are skills that are learned and practiced. @Kung Fu Steve is much better at the body language - message connection than I am. He practices this all the time.

I hope this helps. I look forward to your next video.
Hmmm I see thanks for this it's given me a lot to consider.

In the cultures I'm aiming to reach moving the head side to side does mean no - although I'm not sure at this speed it means the same thing? Maybe subconsciously?

I understand what you mean by be careful of small movements, I'm going to have to look more into this. Thank you for the heads up for this - these kind of things are easy to miss!

Would be great to get @Kung Fu Steve 's input on this too, and as I said I'll have to look into this more! And maybe join toastmasters or something to learn more about speaking.

Thanks again!
 

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Dude, you're telling me. Imagine me having to go up in front of the big guy himself and give HIS words back to him. F*ck me, man. It can be uncomfortable but it made me grow like crazy.

@Prodox I will say I'm very impressed with your videos, they're clean, clear, concise, and the audio and video are fantastic. I'd love to model yours and maybe even get help on my own!
Thanks - I'm really glad you like them.

I put a lot of effort into learning the technicals of recording a good talking head video (and still am), so I'm happy that it's showing.

Modelling my videos? Now that would be flattering, haha.
If there's anything I can do to help, I'd love to - I don't feel like I've given much to this community yet.
 

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I mean honestly it's just practice. You can tell this is off the cuff but the MAJOR plus is that you're comfortable. Even when you don't know what you're going to say, you're very conversational. If you're comparing to Prodox here, while his is a little TOO scripted, yours isn't scripted enough.

But here's the thing:

We've all heard people who sound scripted and they think that's a bad thing -- the real bad thing is if they sound scripted, that means they aren't scripted ENOUGH.

Think about the greatest actors of all time -- people like Anthony Hopkins or Robert Deniro or whoever -- they are SO scripted that it sounds phenomenal, powerful, impactful -- they've taken the words far beyond just the words, they've added character, power, and emotion behind them.

I'm still working on it. I've just hit what I feel to be another level for me and that's what I'm working on. Taking the words I have and making them stronger and more impactful so that I can move bigger audiences.

What's interesting is that in groups of like 500 I can still make every single person feel something -- I can make them all cry or laugh or engage or whatever. I start to lose that power after about 1,000. While I'm still entertaining and good, I'm not MOVING everybody (if that makes sense). I see Tony do it with 15,000 people in an arena. Way up in the nosebleeds you're still like "wow, he's talking directly to me"

Video is basically a one on one communication. It's so intimate. It's slightly different but the principles are the same. Certainty. Emotion.
Awesome feedback.

That’s one of the exact reasons why I stopped doing talking heads - I wanted to follow a script but found it really difficult doing so on camera compared to doing so as a voiceover.

Very interesting that you know you run out of steam when it’s 1,000+ peolle
 

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OK. I'm up for it. Here's me chatting about doing talking head videos. I decided not to do talking head videos for the channel(s) I want to setup. I'll do screenshares and voiceovers instead.

Curious what you guys think @Prodox, @Runum, @Kung Fu Steve.

View: https://youtu.be/ixkvYao2zuk

You come across as very relaxed and natural in front of the camera to me. You are convincing about the point of just having a casual conversation. Not sure of your target audience, it was very good information and on point but I didn't feel any emotion for or against the topic. Not sure if I was supposed to though. I guess my philosophy is I am always trying to get buy in, emotional buy in. Maybe I need to rethink my approach.
 

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Also, by the way @Kung Fu Steve I don't script by videos word by word. I write brought bullet points that I want to hit, then I make up the speech as I go. I do however script my hook (the first couple of sentences usually) because I think that part is important. Maybe I should script it a bit more heavily? I am limited by time though...

I think your stuff is actually really good. And the more you practice -- the cleaner it'll get.

While you may not be scripting it... you are doing cuts every few seconds and I can tell that the purpose is not just to re-engage the viewer.

I agree your call-to-action need to be the strongest part so I would practice and script that with more certainty. The better you know your subject matter, the more confident you will sound with or without a script... but when you know your subject matter that well -- you tend to say the same things over and over again... so even without "scripting it" you are definitely "scripting it" -- you just might not be writing it down.

Here's a super brief video I did off the cuff:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2x1Irvq1bA8&t=5s


The context is that someone just opted-in to get training for their team.

You'll notice I'm looking away and doing some stumbling... I actually did that on purpose for this video because when I did it straight through it seemed really robotic and too fast. It's certaintly not my best video but what I wanted to point out was the part "after doing so many of these, there's really only 3 problems. 1. 2. 3."
 
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I didn't feel any emotion for or against the topic. Not sure if I was supposed to though. I guess my philosophy is I am always trying to get buy in, emotional buy in. Maybe I need to rethink my approach.
Hmmm. I don’t know what you mean about “I didn’t feel any emotion for or against the topic”. I just wanted to get my tips recorded for people who want to do talking head videos.

The audience I had in mind were people too shy to get on camera because they’re tangled up thinking about themselves. Specifically, I was in a Facebook group of people doing a daily Facebook Live challenge and lots of people (adults) were nervous doing their videos. Hence me showing myself fluffing words and not being perfect but still prepared to put the video out there.

Does that make sense?

I’m curious about the emotion part. Maybe it’s because I’m from a paid search background. I’m imagining someone asking for tips about how to do talking head videos, and I created a video to answer it.

My primary goal was to help people get started. To “show, don’t tell” ... what it looks like when we “give yourself “permission to suck” ... and how if you’re goal is to help others then people will see that and not mind you not being perfect. I even specifically said I don’t care about lighting, backgrounds, or shadows changing. I’m not trying to create a perfect video, but to record a natural video like when I FaceTime someone.

Oh, and to lead the way by putting myself out there first.

The goal for me was (still is) to find a way that I can allow myself to ramble but still stay on topic. That’s how I normally present to groups... thinking on my feet, a bit excited, and interrupting myself.
 

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I don't do talking head video because I would rather show them and do the voice over. Some of my earlier videos were me working and talking at the same time, no voice over. It was hard to keep my train of thought and sound intelligent while working.

I also tried recording some of my science lessons and it was difficult for me to get my personality on video. To me, I didn't sound the same nor did I control the audience the same. Probably I was subconsciously trying to convince myself that the recorded lessons would work. I over compensated by trying to be charming and commanding. This was MANY years ago. LOL

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3ASCMGHPUM&feature=youtu.be
Ah. I’ve just remembered you are/were a school teacher. I presume this was aimed at kids in school?
 

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