9 fast ways to turn boring talking head videos into interesting content

1. 9 fast ways to turn boring talking head videos into interesting content: The rules, you're a creative person. Just go break the rules. Don't listen to me and what I tell you to do, just getting inspiration from me. And that'll allow you to go make the best videos you can. Certainly in this class I'm gonna do my best to not waste your time. My name is Karim amines. I've made over a 1000 internet videos, and these are the lessons I've learned for so many talking head videos and how to make them more interesting. First, we're going to go over conceptual ideas, things to think about before filming or before editing. There's three videos on that. Next, we're gonna go to five tactical videos on how to actually implement these into your videos to make your videos and much, much more interesting. My goal in this course is to spark ideas for you that way you can have inspiration, you can have ideas. You will not run out of ways to make something super boring, even if you're a boring talker or have footage of someone who is super dull, maybe you can make that more interesting and more fun. So let's get right into the course. 2. See the movie in your mind: The first conceptual idea is to play the movie in your mind. If you have a vision, you can create anything. The tactics aren't as hard. But if you've got the skill to have the vision, if you're a person who can see what you want made before you make it. You've got what it takes to be really good at this. So you need to know your vision, but you also need to know the mission. What's the point of this? Are we trying to sell widgets, communicate a message, tell story. What's the mission of this talking head section? And how can we create the vibe around that? If you shoot your own footage, definitely, you need to have some mind before you start shooting. If you don't shoot the on footage, but you're just an editor. Once you get the footage. In that case, I like to play back on times two-speed all the footage first, get the idea of what's being said and also what's the mood but the tone with the music, Let's coloring all those things. Start playing that back in your mind. Turn on some cool music and get that vision for the whole video and then dive into it. Buddy, I'm sorry, Fellman. Don't mind me. Once it does take away. If you can't see it in your mind first, there's no way you're gonna be able to make it come out in the computer. 3. Be yourself everyone else is taken and video environment: Second idea before we get to the tactics, match someone's personality with the edit. So is this person goofy? Is this person more corporate? A good example of this is, I like to add a goofy twist a lot of times to my personal content. And I might, It's terrible humor, but I'm kind of dad jokes, self-deprecating. I trip and fall, all that fun stuff. I really enjoy that. Whereas my wife is more corporate, choose an agent, and so she's going to have a more professional look right up front. I'm gonna be wearing more casual clothes. I'm going to maybe have some goofy music, sound effects, goofy graphics. She's going to be more professional. Know which type of edit you're gonna do. And it's not normally a good idea to mix those edits. Because if you start with one way and get real serious and then go a different way and try to change your personality or try to be like somebody else, you are definitely going to fail. So this is pre filming, pre editing. These are some ideas if you get the opportunity to film and edit, take care of this first, we're about to get to the tactics after one more idea. If I edit against the character of the person, there's going to be friction with the audience. They're going to feel like this person seems professional, but they're trying to be funny, but they're not really funny. This person seems goofy and it sounds like they're just trying to reserve themselves the whole time. You gotta go in line with the personality and with the edit. They got to flow together. Sometimes you'll have a super cool edit, a really good idea, and you just learned how to do this new tactic. So you want to put it in a video? Well, be careful because it might not be the right video for it. You can practice it, but not all cool edits go into video. You can over cool edit a video and try to do like all these transitions and all have so much Susan, all sorts of crazy things that could overdo it. And you don't want to do that. You don't want to drive people crazy. It goes to the storyline. If it doesn't go to the storyline, you cut it out. Save the cool edit for another video. If you have the privilege of being in front of the camera yourself, like I do a lot of times, here's a few tips that's really going to help you out, especially in the post processing to make this talking head not so boring. Number one is to look at the camera if you were just kind of talking and thinking in your mind and not really sure. Well, maybe I should go look at the camera, address the people's number two is to not cover your mouth, are not being secure or not. Have your hand on your face and talk because that's not a good posture to come across as confident and come across as who you want to be. Plus competence is gonna go up if you can sit up appropriately and talk to the camera directly. And that's going to allow people to connect with you better than if I'm over here looking this way trying to figure out what I'm saying. Third tip is shoulders back, which I lean forward a lot, chin up. Look at the camera. Those two things are going to build your confidence just because you're in a posture, a competent posture. And that's going to make you feel like you're gonna go get this. Lastly, breathing helps a ton and play some music before you start. When you're going to practice filming, you want to get to 100%. Most people just turn on the cameras, start filming. I did this just few minutes ago. I filmed the first step in, I deleted it, but I'll turn it on. And then you've got extra excited and extra enthusiastic, Extra, go beyond what you want to do. So, hey guys, welcome back to this Skillshare course. Could do something crazy. Breathe in, breathe deep lessons, some awesome music that's gonna get your blood flowing and you're gonna be able to talk at a pace that's enjoyable to listen to. The one-sentence takeaways to match your personality with the environment. And you may have to get uncomfortable, do some weird things in order to get comfortable on the camera. 4. Gaining confidence and getting your crap together.: Number three, this is one that videography doesn't talk about much, but I think it's super real. Your videos are going to be a product of who you are. You can't fake it forever. So what you're putting into your life is what's going to come out on camera. And then you're able to be here for the long term because you are who you are and you don't have anything to hide when you're always telling the truth. There's nothing to hide and there's nothing to fear. So maybe if you're looking to get on camera, maybe you don't feel confident. That could be two reasons. One, you need to practice in front of the camera. The second thing is you might need to get your crap together a little bit and actually keep the promises to yourself that you are making. Once you start keeping those promises consistently, you'll become more confident. Once you become more confident than you can address the camera. You can address the people with full confidence rather than being wavering in and out and being inconsistent. So take care of yourself first and then everything can flow out if you freely. The one-sentence takeaway is that if you are proud of who you are, There's nothing to hide and you can freely just be you. 5. Use b-roll...But not always: Alright, now to the fun stuff onto the tactics. The first tactic is relative B-roll to your videos can make a talking head videos super, super interesting. Now the big most important thing to this is relative footage. If I'm sitting here talking about this is my favorite microphone and this is how we plug it into the wall or something, but the footage doesn't match up correctly, like that doesn't make sense. It would be better just to stay on the person. Then a would be to do bad B-roll or bad footage. Secondly, I like to avoid stock footage as much as possible because stock footage has a stock footage look that just looks fake and less authentic. And if you're trying to make a video, if you're trying to make a film or something. If you filming yourself, that's more rods, more real. The audience can feel that they don't maybe know it's a piece of stock footage, but they can feel that. So a good tactical tip on that is to ruin the stock footage, make it a lower-quality, add some filters, do something to it at a handheld, handheld shake to it that way it might feel more raw and different than something that's cartoonish. I don't think that's the right word. One-sentence takeaway is to use B-Roll to enhance your footage, but make sure it's relative or else it'll be bad. 6. Cropping and zooming techniques: Next tip is to use rule of thirds, so I can be on the side, I can be cropped to the center. Use the rule of thirds to crop and crop out. For example, you could be right up on my face and then crop out to the whole area like it is now. And that can produce intrigue or if you're getting really serious. And I don't know what's going to happen next. But you can use the rule of thirds and zooms to make them more interesting. So you've got nine really quick ways to crop it. I could be on the left of the screen, right of the screen, of the center of the screen. I could be wide, I could be in the middle, or it could be extremely zoomed in. Now you have nine different camera angles with one camera to choose from. On top of that, you can do a slow zoom or a slow zoom out that adds two more to each of those nine areas. That's a lot of ways to add it using the rule of thirds. And Ken Burns is good for all sorts of videos. I use them in all types of videos. But there's another form of cropping that you don't really want to use an all videos that's gonna be in the next video. But the one-sentence takeaway is used rule of thirds, use cropping, use Ken Burns to get as many angles as you need. 7. Crazy cropping techniques and short form content: Crazy cropping techniques. This might be more of my style. I might do this from the type of videos I make. And I'm gonna do crazy cropping techniques. So that means I might not be in the rule of thirds. I might be on one side or the other side, where on the side way zoomed in and zoomed out or something with this, the idea is to promote intrigue. And so you can zoom in really close on what you want somebody to pay attention to. Where you can zoom in really close for some comedic effect and try to be silly. Now there are no rules here, so just go crazy. But the one thing to keep in mind as speed is king. So the quicker, quicker, quicker and quicker, quicker, quicker you can edit and crop. Then their minds trying to process all of this information super-quick. But the hilarious thing is if you zoom out, you realize that I'm just in front of one single camera right now talking to you. But based upon how you edit the film, how you edit your movie, how you edit your video is going to change how people feel when they watch it. If you create short form content or Internet content, think about doing some wild editing techniques like watch this, zoom out. It creates a different feel, a different look, and it depends on the mood of the video. Back to the conceptual ideas. You can get that right. You have so many options to make a talking head video like this. Super interesting. The one-sentence takeaway is, don't follow any rules, do some crazy cropping techniques, try it. If it sucks. Command Z. 8. Use simple effects to enhance talking head videos: One of the interesting things about making a talking head video interesting is to experiment. So for example, what if I wanted a different look? I could just flip this right now. Yeah, just use an effect and flip it all around. The problem with this can come in is when there's a word or if direction really matters. So keep that in mind. Use effects for your benefit. You could try a aged film effect. You could try a cartoon effect. Depending upon the fill you want. You can use effects and I would say short form Internet contexts. The primary place to do this, do a black and white effect for the past and then come back to the present when you're contradicting yourself. So you could say, it doesn't matter what you do. And then flashback to the past. It only matters what you do. And it shows that black and white is the past, match the vibe of the video with the effects, an experiment that's the way to figure out what works for you. So the one sentence takeaway is, don't follow rules, use effects, try things, and it might just work out. 9. My secret to using graphics correctly (it mostly works): Graphics, this is the one you've been waiting for. This is the one some people only do, just graphics, but they don't crop. They don't use any effects. They don't flip the screen, they don't do anything. They just use graphics, which is fine. Because if you add what I'm saying over here, it could be interesting or add points to what's going on could be interesting. But you want to be careful with this in a few different scenarios, three moments to avoid graphics, a super serious scenario. So if someone is addressing the camera directly and talking, you're not going to want emojis popping up over here and words popping up over here. You want that seriousness to come through the camera and you want that connection to be between you and the audience rather than a graphic that ruins the serious moment. Second is sad moment. So there's kind of like a serious moment. But if something's really sad or the sad part of a storyline, let that weight sink and let that weight hold. And that's going to make it more impactful than popping up the **** emoji. Third, storytelling moments. Now, this is a middle ground one here because if I'm telling the story to you about something that happened, you can use B-Roll to enhance their relative B-roll. But if I just start to tell you a story right now about my neighbor Bob, who came over to me while I was cutting some wood. And he was not very happy and started yelling at me. And well, maybe I don't want to put that out there. Anyway. If I let your imagination go, then you get a picture of Bob. You get a picture of the entire scenario by yourself rather than me, Joe on the fence showing a random, angry guy in stock footage like that's not going to add to the story unless you're comedic in a sense. So get that, you'll get that via, know what you're trying to do. And be careful. Be careful to not add too many graphics when you want people to pay attention because the pace of the video goes like this. And when you change the pace, whether it's speed or slow, it's going to trigger people to pay attention. So you could use graphics, you can be super, super fast, super interesting, and then slow it down, slow your tone down, slow the pace down to the video and just let it resonate and people will pay attention. Or if you're just a chill person. And then you start to get more energetic and tell people to start getting their crap together, they're going to start paying attention once you pick that up. So you need to know this flow with the edit and don't ruin the flow with some random graphics. One sentence takeaway, graphics are the easiest and best way to enhance a talking head video when they're appropriately placed. Do it. 10. Music and SFX and how not to ruin your video: Music and sound effects. You can use this to enhance a video. You can also use this to ruin a video. If I'm talking, there's a couple of techniques I could use for music. And lot of times you want it to be quite a lot background music. But I could be going really fast and really interested in this specific topic. And then I'll lose my train of thought. And if I'm making fun of myself, I might cut the music right where I look off to the side and then really bring the music in that way. It emphasizes what I'm wanting to say. So again, changing the pace emphasizes what you're doing and you can do that with the music. You can also do that with sound effects. And so when you guys do a super good job and go make banger videos, I'm so excited for you. Yeah, you can have sound effects, graphics, all these things enhance the video and you should think about using them appropriately, not overdoing it, but appropriately. In the video, you've probably seen those people who overdo these sound effects. And there's a pup and ocean, a whip, Anna. Anna. Every second. So yeah, just don't overuse it. Change the pace. Watched the video back that you're making and think, what does this make me feel and why and how can I change it to make it feel the way I want it to? Another way to use music to start at 0 and then slowly raise the music as the intensities happening, as the intensity is growing, as you're getting more excited, as you are coming more to the climactic moment, you can raise, raise that intensity of the music slowly. And that's going to allow the audience to feel this anticipation of something's coming. What is coming? There was this time when I went to the grocery store and as I was walking inside, there was this homeless guy next to the homeless guy. There's another guy talking to them. And I overheard him say, Yeah, I'll go check the truck right as I was going inside and I had left my computer and my truck and there was literally no way to lock my vehicle. The lock was literally broken. And so I was getting super nervous at this guys. You can still talk and he starts to be lining straight to my truck and I get inside of the store and I turn right back around to go look what is happening outside. And then when I finally got outside, they had their own truck they were looking at. That's an example of raising the music with the intensity of the story. Don't just think about using these effects. Think about not using them to create a vibe. In this world where everybody uses music, everybody uses sound effects, everybody uses graphics, everybody uses cropping, everybody uses all these things. If you wanted to have a super intimate conversation through the camera, maybe stripping more away would be more impactful if you're trying to inspire. But also on the other side of that. If you use it correctly, it can inspire as well. It can keep the audience's attention. I can take a video from a two to a 12th. When I first started making videos, I started because I was scared of talking in front of the camera. And because I wanted to overcome that fear and I've gotten better at talking to the camera and the past five years. But with that being said, the only way any of my videos was watched at all in the beginning is because I was able to add graphics. I was able to make myself look 510 times better. And that's what we want because you don't want to go watch somebody and not be inspired. Like I don't even want to watch. Yeah, like I want I know that's not how it is exactly in real life, but that's how I wanted to feel the bees inspired for action to go out into the world and crush it. Boom, that's all I got for you. 11. How I edit real time a talking head video: Alright, now let's jump right into the computer. I'm going to show you a couple of the edits I'm doing for this video because I'm basically a boring head talking, but let's run through it and we'll see what happens. Next tip is to use rule of thirds. So I can be the first thing I'm gonna do here. I use Final Cut Pro. I'm gonna do my art tool for the range. And I'm just going to cut out by the audio clips exactly what I know. I don't want. And this is just a big time-saver right off the bat, where I'm looking at my notes, are trying to figure out how to say what I want to say most effectively. This is the one I misspoke the most I think or did not do a great job. And so we'll watch this back here. I like to use a lot of shortcuts to use brackets, rule of thirds. So I can be on the side to the center. Use the rule of thirds to crop in, crop out, for example. So that's pretty, pretty slow right there. And you can see the audio waveforms right here. There's just a big gap. So we want to just get rid of that. Again. I can use the Arrange tool and just get rid of it. But a good technique on top of that is to do a L cut. So in order to do now, I'm going to drop the audio of this original clip underneath the other clip here. If it were a j cut, I would drop it on top. So let's see what that looks like. It can be on the side. It looks much better there than this. So I can be on the side, and then it can be on the side. Another way to do that, if you want to clean it up a little bit more as you can, just detach the audio and delete your foot edge. And there you go. Be on the side, I can be cropped to the center. Use the rule of thirds to crop it. Again, going to take out the gaps right in and do interviews. And then right there, I think would be a good time to go ahead and crop in. I'm talking about using the rule of thirds. I'm basically on the right there at the squad, crop me into the center here. That way it looks a little bit more seamless. And I like to go just a little bit above the head showing. So it can be on the side, I can be cropped to the center, use the rule of thirds to crop in, crop out of thirds. So actually I say, use the rule of thirds to crop in, crop out. I think it'd be a good idea to crop in, right? When I say that center, use the, so the rule of thirds or staple crop in. So we'll make this one not as strong. Just a tiny crop. Let's go 110. And then this one will go all the way in, yeah. And then this one, the rule of thirds to crop in crop, where I say crop out, we're going to zoom back out to the beginning. You can just go to 100% and then 0 out your x and y-axis and you're back to the beginning crop out for next tip is to use rule of third. So it can be on the side, I can be cropped to the center. Use the rule of thirds to crop in, crop out. Okay, so there's propping crop up. I remember I've got a graphic of the rule of thirds. So for videos, logos, graphics, and rule of thirds. Let's see if that does what I want. There we go. So now I've got this really cool rule of thirds graphic here that I can overlay on myself to see where I'm at and I can get myself even more on the rule of thirds. So next tip is to use rule of thirds. So it can be on the side, I can be, I can be on the side. So whereas I use rule of thirds, the rule of thirds and use rules. And this is just a graph that kinda shows what the rule of thirds is to either be in one of these corners or dead center. That's not a technical thing, but that's all we need to know for now. So let's fix me here. Zoom in slightly and put me right at the top. Now ideally I would, I would be a little lower, but that's alright. And so it can be on the side. I can be prompted to be cropped to the center. To the center. This is just a good example of doing it right? As we go. Right there. Use rule of thirds, so it can be on the side, I can be cropped to the center. Use the rule of thirds to crop in, crop out. For example. It could be right up on my goal. So again, there's another pause here and could be, for example, and I said you could be buds just quickly. I don't like to detach the audio, especially in a scenario like this because I don't need it that clean. I'm not making a super complicated at it. There's very few timelines here. For example, you could be right up on my patient and crop out to the right on my face and crop out to the full area. I think I wanted myself to be cropped in when I was saying that. So like this and then I'll crop out, for example, you could be right up on my patient and crop out to the whole area where I go where I kinda do this weird motion to crop out. That's where we want to crop out. So I will make that back to a 100 instead of 2000% 0. For example, you could be okay. And then another thing I do here is we're taking that out to crop in, crop out for it. No. We don't want no Arrange tool and just drag and delete thirds to crop in, crop out for example, you could be right up on my face and in, for example, KCL, my eyes drop right there. I don't like that. So I'm going to change it from my L cut to Jacob and crop out, for example, you could be a little smoother crop in, crop out for example, you could be. So now I need to get this clip crop the same as this clip sins and moved it to the top. So I'm just gonna command copy it and I'm going to go Command Shift V. It's gonna be able to paste all of the cropping and we're good to go out, for example, you could be right up on my face and then try to look for areas like it is now. And that can produce injury or they're getting really serious. The audience was down. That can produce entry. Now pauses aren't necessarily bad. I'm taking most of them out here where it's not important. I think there's a pause up here that I might leave in pretty intrigued or they're getting really serious. And the audience was down. Here. I said to him, The audience slows down where I met and the speaker slows down. So let's see if I can make sense of this and take that out of the audience flows down. I don't know what's going to happen next. Or they're getting really serious. If you're getting really serious and I don't know what's going to happen next, I think still makes enough sense. Or if you're getting really serious, what's going to happen next? But you can use the rule of thirds and zooms to make it more interesting. So you got nine really in that can produce injury or they're getting really serious. I think I wanted to use a zoom here, so I'm going to transform or do a compound clip on those two clips. And then we'll come over here to, you could do this and transform. I'm gonna go and do crop Ken Burns. It's going to be faster to do it and I am going to zoom in. It's used them indirectly, it'll be more serious. It will zoom in directly to me. Injury or they're getting really serious. And I don't know what's going to happen next. But you can use the rule of thirds and zooms to make it more interesting. So even there, like I'm getting kind of serious or I'm trying to pretend that I am. So something I might want to do is go pluck a song from the interwebs. That might be something a little bit serious, I guess. Maybe sentimental, maybe sad, by the way I was talking. So let's go see what we can find. Randoop, sad, smooth. Hey go a dramatic piano. Will download that. And we will drag and drop it right onto our timeline. Boom. So now with my full Ken Burns area like it is now, and that can produce injury or if you're getting really serious. And I don't know what's going to happen next. But you can use the rule of thirds and zooms to make it more interesting. So I really don't like how I feel in that part. I think we're going to make work. But I could've explained that much better. Crop out to the whole area like it is now. And that can produce intrigue or they're getting really serious. And I don't know what's going to happen next. But you can use the rule of thirds and zooms to make it more interesting. So you got nine really quick ways to crop it. So you got nine really quick ways to crop it. I could be on the left. Okay, so now I'm gonna go through all the nine ways. So we need to grab these grid lines and show you visually as well the nine ways. That way it's more interesting and appealing to watch. Because I don't have enough room. I shouldn't move the camera away from me more. I don't have very much room here. I'm going to have to zoom in to crop and transform myself to specific spots. See, I'm running out of room. In the center of the screen. Crop it. I could be on the left of the screen, right of the screen, in the center of the screen, I could be why? I could be in the middle. I could be extremely zoomed in. Okay. See if we can give some examples of all of those with the grid lines on the left of the screen, right and left of this. So I don't think that freeze-frame looked good. A lot of this is trial. And then when it doesn't look good, just correct it. I could be on the left of the screen, right of the screen. So let's drag this down a little bit so it's more consistent with the other one. Central center of the screen. Zoom in slightly moved to the center of the screen, I get b y. On this one that says, why is where I'm going to take this wide clip and put it over top. And I move the camera around in the filming for different things. So that's why I could be in the middle. I can be extremely quick. There we go. Why? I could be in the attack, could be in the middle. So I'm matching the film. A matching the film with me, edit the edit with the words, I guess, ways to crop it. I could be on the left of the screen, right of the screen, the center of the screen I could be why? I could be in the middle. I could be extremely zoomed in, may be extended or I could be extreme. Please zoom. Okay, So I think I want these to be the same. The new command copy command Shift and B paste the attributes zoomed in and then extremely zoomed in. Let's go to like what What do you say? 400? Secondary. Terrible. Yeah. Let's bring that down just a little to like. That's plenty for this example. 200. I could be on the left of the screen, right of the screen, that center of the screen I could be why? I could be in the middle. I could be extremely zoomed in nine different camera angles when there we go. So that's a little sequence. How I would edit that make it look so much better, more interesting than what originally was. And look, we're only Thirty-seven seconds and let's keep going. Now you have nine different camera angles with one camera to choose from. On top of that, you can do it slow zoo, or you can do a slow zoo or slow zoom out. Okay, So on top. So I sat on top of that you could do as well as Zoom slow zoom out. We'll hit the keyframe right there where we want to start at the top that you can do a slow x2. And so we'll go to 125 and then move two key frames forward. And we'll add another keyframe or slow zoom out. That adds to slow zoom in, zoom out. We'll go back to 100%. See how that works angles with one camera to choose from. On top of that, you can do a slow zoo or a slow zoom out that adds two more to each of those nine areas. A lot of ways to edit. So I'm going to leave that in there, right there. And I'm going to use this pause to zoom into my face to add some more, little more spice, little more flair to emphasize my pause of what I'm thinking. And so we're going to zoom in a fair amount here to Cramer thinking nine areas. A lot of ways to edit. Now if you saw how that kind of wavered, it's because these keyframes are on smooth instead of on linear. Change this to linear each of those nine areas. But straighten lot of ways to edit these methods I just talked about. In this scenario, you don't wanna do it. Jake had organelle cut because I'm pausing after I'm talking and it doesn't make sense. But if I'm, if I'm in mid-sentence and I have to cut two sentences together to make them make sense. That's where it works out much better. So here you can see how the pause is actually going to work in this scenario. A one-on-one, a, j are o cut this nine areas. A lot of ways to edit these methods I just talked about and showed you right here are best for not necessarily professional videos, but for outside that. I like to take that amount right there on the scenario. Best for not necessarily professional videos, you right here are best for not necessarily professional video. Okay, so one of the methods I like to do is start cropped in just maybe like 15% and then it's going to pop out. Now these methods I just talked about and showed you right here are best for, not necessarily professional, are best for. Move that got posted. It sounds better for not necessarily professional videos, but for applied. That's what they're good for all videos. But we say using the rule of thirds and Ken Burns is good for all sorts of video. So I just edited that clip and I wanted to read you the whole code. Not necessarily professional videos, but using the rule of thirds and can burn through right here are best for areas. A lot of ways to edit using the rule of thirds. And Ken Burns has been also committees. I use them in all types of videos. But there's another form of probably doesn't even the video, but it wasn't sigma is used to get as many as you want. Okay, so let's do the rehab video, but a one-sentence takeaway. So right here, we're going to use drop the opacity. Control T will grab the title. Go pick the font that I've been using for this specific series of videos. What I say, use cropping, use Ken Burns to get usual thirds comma crop. Rabin. Ken Burns probably use Ken Burns to get as many angles as. Now. Let's get her spelling right. To get as many angles as you can. Okay, So the worst, my worst part of editing is my spelling. My spelling. I think that's part of my creativity, but I have dyslexia fairly severely. So I think it helps me think creatively, but at the same time, when I use words, I normally have to go use a spell checker is usable. Thirds, use cropping, used Ken Burns to get as many angles as you need. As you need, as it makes more sense. Doesn't can, because you don't need all the angles you can get. You just want the ones that add to the story. Alright, let's go back to the beginning. That was only a minute and 12 second video, and we've been editing for 24 minutes. Next tip is to use rule of third. So it can be on the side, I can be cropped to the center. Use the rule of thirds to crop in, crop out. For example, you could be right up on my patient and for areas like it is now, that can produce injury or they're getting really serious. And I don't know what's going to happen next. But you can see over here, there's some different effects you could lay on top of the romantic effect. I have no clue what it looks like, but let's look, drop it on here, see what it looks like. I'm really serious. Oh, it it blurs out all the background and makes me in-focus that could actually work. So if I'm come here and I keyframe this and make the amount of 0. And I don't know what's going to happen. And then as I get more serious, keyframe it up to a 100%. Good luck, terrible, let's try it. Or if you're getting really serious, I don't know what's going to happen next. Yeah, it's kinda dreamy. That's actually kind of cool. Zooms to make them more interesting. So you got nine really quick. So that's something that could be like edgy, That could be done, that could be considered like What are you doing? But I like to go out and trying new things sometimes, more often than not been doing nothing at all. They're getting really serious. I don't know what's going to happen next. So if I were to prepare better on this specific part, I would've had a good, serious, sad story or something to put in there about a dog dying or something terrible. And that would have enhanced the video because my storytelling would have been better. I'm trying to fix bad storytelling with good editing right now. Just keep that in mind to make it more interesting. So you got nine really quick ways to crop it. I could be on the left of the screen, right of the screen, the center of the screen I could be why? I could be in the middle, but can be extremely zoomed in. Now you have nine different camera angles with one camera to choose from. On top of that, you can do a slow zoo or a slow zoom out that adds two more to each of those nine areas. A lot of ways to edit using the rule of thirds. And Ken Burns is good for all sorts of videos I use in all types of videos. But there's another form of cropping that you don't really want to use it all videos, that's gonna be in the next video. But One sentence takeaway is usable thirds, use cropping, use Ken Burns to get as many angles as you need. So in less than 30 minutes, That's how I would edit one of these videos and some of the techniques I use. I hope that was useful to you. Stick around if you want some more classes or courses or videos because I plan on making some more and going into more of the techniques. I do have a couple of others on commercial making for small businesses. I have some on masking tutorial and Final Cut Pro, and how to gain audience retention and make it even greater than it is now. So I hope to see you guys there and otherwise have a great day.