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Today, I am going to reveal to you why you should write your scripts and then get them out of your way.
Since I started creating my own video blogs I started thinking about how long I was taking to write my scripts and then read them word for word to the camera. I watched my videos and I looked so stiff and not connected to my message and all of you. So I decided to actually take my own advice and I changed my process to this: First, I still write out my script, that way I could have a pseudo transcript and text for my blog post. I can also organize my thoughts. I also mark where I could insert some B-Roll imagery. This lets me know what ideas I should get through completely without stopping and where I can pause.
Second, I pull out the important bullet points and make them bold and big. That includes my intro and call to action at the end.
Third, I put my script away!
When I film now, I have my bullet points on my handy ipad, next to me, just so I can refer to it. But I try my best to just get my thoughts out there and later in editing I can make sure I’m getting to the point and add all my graphics and B-roll.
This way I can get out of my head and into the moment of when I’m speaking with you.
BUT I still believe in writing scripts and planning so please keep doing this. Just put the script away when it’s time to film. With some practice this will make all the difference, in you coming across as genuine, caring and trustworthy.
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I know you are probably super overwhelmed with working with your clients, creating your next course, and writing email newsletters and blog posts. You’re super busy and sometimes planning your videos just falls to the wayside. You want a super simple, easy, and fast process. And you can get that, but I’m telling you fast and easy doesn’t always mean great high quality video.
So if you are ready to take the time to bring your videos up a notch and are sick of writing, there is this awesome tool filmmakers use called storyboarding. It’s super fun and you’ll get to draw and get those ideas you just can’t get clear when you try to write them out.
Storyboarding does three things for you:
relieves the stress of having to memorize or do everything in one take.
gives you ideas for other imagery that you can show besides you talking
it’s a visual document you can share with your team
Download your storyboard template.Ok so open up the template and let’s get started. First you’ll see your header where you can put a title for the project, title of the video, the date and page number. This is really just for your organization. So let’s say we are creating a 3 part video series about creating awesome branding for an online business. So our project title is “Branding your online business 3 part training”, we are starting with “video 1 – your target market” , todays date and this is page 1.Each of these boxes has space for three things: the shot number, an empty box for you to add your drawing or picture, and lines to add some description or text.Let’s say shot 1 is you introducing the course and explaining what they are going to learn. We are just putting bullet points not the word for word script here. Then shot 2 can be a quick intro. Shot 3 is you again explaining what a target market is. Now let’s say shot 4 you want to start talking about how to research your target market. Here you can show your methods. So let’s say you are explaining that they should send out surveys to past clients and in FB groups. So we can draw here an image of a sample survey or typing a question in a FB group. For every shot I want you to think, “What can I show here that would really drive the point home?” because just showing you talking for 5 minutes can really drive people away pretty quickly, just because they want to engage with other images.One word of warning: Dont get carried away trying to draw something perfect. The point is to get your ideas out visually not create an artistic masterpiece. You can even insert images digitally if you’d rather not draw. Just open up the template in photoshop or import it into word.Those are the basics of storyboarding!I’d recommend storyboarding before you write your script since it’ll give you an outline and you might even add or take out some language because you thought of a different way to approach a segment during storyboarding.Don’t forget to download your storyboard template. If you want more tips to creating online video, download your guide to the Top 5 Video Tools that will help you make beautiful online videos for your business Or if you really ready to dive in join my free course to Amp Up You Online Video Presence. By signing up you’ll also get exclusive Tips, Tricks, How-to’s and my personal insights about editing and using Online Videomaking in your business that I only share with my VIP storytellers.
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The first thing you want to make sure you do is have your videos uploaded to whatever host you are using. We are going to start with youtube.
YOUTUBE
Find the video you want to embed in your video dashboard and click on it. Then click on share under the video title. Choose embed, and this is the most important part, click the words show more right under the code. This is going to give you a couple of options that will change the look of the player. If you want to get rid of the title bar on top so that you’ll get a clean image of your thumbnail and the play button just uncheck “Show video title and player options” . If you want your audience to watch all the way through and not be able to skip ahead or rewind uncheck “show player controls”. I’ve seen this used a lot for webinars or training courses, but not usually for blog posts. You can also uncheck “show suggested videos when the video finishes” Again, this is really used for your exclusive content thats isn’t publicly available. If you are embedding your video on your blog I’d suggest leaving this on, so your viewer can move on to watch more of your videos. Once you choose all of the options you want or don’t want, scroll up and copy your code. then you would paste the code into your webpage just like you normally would. I’ll show you using WordPress. And there it is!
VIMEO
Now, let’s move on to Vimeo. For Vimeo, you can’t get rid of the player bar unless you have a pro account but you can get rid of some of the other stuff that is put by default on your thumbnail. To do this, click the paper airplane icon on the right of your video. It appears when you hover over it. What you can change here is whether the Portrait or profile picture, title, and byline appear. You can do this by unchecking these boxes. THen go up to the embed box and copy the code. Then paste it into your website.
WISTIA
For Wistia, click on the video you want to embed and then Video Actions in the top right. Choose customize in the dropdown. A side bar will appear on the left. Click on the controls box. You’ll see a few checkboxes. You can turn off and on your big play button and controls. If you play your video and uncheck the rest, your small play button, play bar, volume control, and full screen control, you can see what they do. The great thing about Wistia is that you can go back and change these controls without having to copy and paste the embed code again. I’ll show you what I mean. Let’s grab that embed code by going back over to video actions and clicking on embed and share. Copy your code and paste into your webpage. There it is! Now let’s change a setting back in wistia and save that. Now, if you refresh your webpage the change will show up.
So that’s how you can customize the way your player looks on youtube, vimeo, and wistia and make your videos look great on your site.
If you want more tips to creating online video, download your guide to the Top 5 Video Tools that will help you make beautiful online videos for your business Or if you really ready to dive in join my free course to Amp Up You Online Video Presence. By signing up you’ll also get exclusive Tips, Tricks, How-to’s and my personal insights about editing and using Online Videomaking in your business that I only share with my VIP storytellers.
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