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1. Intro: Hi. My name is Matiaz. Welcome to this class. I'm drawing of the
experience of creating hundreds of hundreds of video on all the social
media platform, mostly in the Talking
Head style video format. What is the talking head video? Well, it's just someone
talking to the camera, like what I'm doing
just right now. It can be in the 16 to
nine ratio like this or in the nine to
16 ratio like this, which will cover most
into this class. I'm super excited
to teach this class because I know from my
own experience when I started out how difficult it can be to just start
if you don't know how. In this course, we will cover everything you need
to know to start. Equipment, planning,
recording, editing, upload, we cover it all. So on the end of the class, you have your first
video ready to publish. Why you should make talking
head videos you may ask? Why you can use it to grow
your brand on social media, to create a personal
brand, maybe, or to generate leads
to drive most sales. For both is video
working perfectly. Best is, you only need
a smartphone to start. I'm excited to see you
in the first lesson.
2. What do you need?: Let's talk about equipment. I mean, everybody likes
equipment, right? At least I do. A lot of
times I get the question. Hm is, what do I need to start with filmmaking,
with video creation? My answer is always
use what you have. You don't need a fancy
camera at the beginning, use your phone because I'm sure your phone have
a four K camera. I think since I don't
know, five, six years, every phone have
a four K camera, so use that and save the
money if you have some. If you do have I don't
know, 5600 euros, I would recommend get you the DJI Osmo pocket is like a little pocket camera
with the integrated gimble. You can work, make
blocks if you want to and also make really
good videos with that one. The most important thing in my opinion for
videos is the sound. You can have the best
visual if our VO is crab, nobody want listen to you. So how do you can start? Well, one option is a
shortcut microphone. You attach it on your
gimble with your camera, plug it in, if you
use your phone, get on your phone, you get adapter to insert into your phone, and
you're good to go. The other option is, use a W B microphone
for your computer, also get an adapter
for your phone, and you can go like in
a new speaker style. But my personal favorite is the wireless La
lier microphone. I use this one from DJI. It's a little bit pricey. If you want to start out, I recommend get you
one from these. It's an name brand. It costs like 50 years. You have a transmitter, plug it into your phone, you have a wireless
microphone attach it to your clothes, and
you're good to go. If you have your audio fix it, get you some light if you
have some budget left. I recommend for the beginning
some LD panels from Amazon. It's also nonme brand, they cost like 40 or 50 bucks
a double puck with two, and you put one left one whit. I recommend you have one light
brighter than the other, have a little contrast
in your face. If you have some budget left, you can get one of a
battery powered LD panel, what can also change colors,
forget some Amienight. I don't think you need
to fancy background to start, as you can see here. This is my normally workplace. If you feel more comfortable
with a clean place, go to a wide wall and set up your equipment there,
and you're good to go. So that is about equipment,
not so difficult.
3. Natural Light: Instead of using
lamps and lights, you also can use natural
light, the daylight, sunlight. One option is you go front of a window like I'm right now. I don't like this
way because this is just too bright and
too plain in the face. I prefer to have the light like in 45 degrees coming
into my face, so I have a little contrast that one side of my face is
darker than the other side, but that's just my preference. Of course you can do
however you want. Another option is to go outside, maybe even more in the nature in a forest and make
you be used there. The proson cons in
using daylight, the process is a tree. It's already there,
but the con it's not super reliable
because Imaging you're in the middle of a video and just a big cloud
goes in front of the sun and suddenly your light is changing
and it look weird. Have proson cons,
but just try it out and then you know what
is your preference.
4. Class Project: As a project, I want
to see your video. Upload a link to your
social media platform where you posted it in
the project gallery. I will comment every video and we'll give you
some feedback. I can't wait to see yours.
5. Plan and Skript: L et's plan your video. Imagine you're a dog trainer, and you want to make a
video about dog training. One video idea could be
how to teach your dog to go how to teach your dog to go for the
stick to catch the stick. Now you have the idea, and
I recommend you write down every word from your idea from how you want present
your idea in the camera, word for word, and try to
aim for approx 30 seconds. I think this is a
good middle ground. And important try to be natural as possible
in your speech. Don't change the words for Sound more Smart or
something like that. If you struggle with
the natural word, just make yourself what's a voice note and after
you have the voice note, just write down what you
said in this voice note. Trust me, have a script
makes you feel so, secure in front of the camera. So sit down and write your script and I'll
see you in the next video.
6. Recording: Finally here
recording your video. I'm just going to show you
my setup in the middle. I have here my
camera on my left. I have the left light, on the right, the other light. And as you can see,
the left light is a little bit brighter
than the other. To give my face a little
bit of contrast to make it not like plain
white wash boring. Also, as you can see,
I have here white, I have here a blue
background light for have a little bit interesting
stuff in my video. I recommend you record
with four k and 30 FPS, 30 frames per second. I know I know 24 25
is more cinematic, but platforms like Instagram and TikTok convert the video into 30 frames per
second anyway, so it doesn't make sense
to let instagram change it better you record it for
the best possible quality. When you're sitting down in
your chair like in my case, I recommend you
activate the grid, this lines on your
camera and and try to have your
eyes on the upper from this horizontal line, to the best ratio
in your videos. Just click record.
Do your script. Doesn't matter if
you make mistakes. I I recommend you
record your video three times at least because the first time and second
time, going to be weird. But with the third
or maybe fourth, you're going to be better,
going to feel more safe. If you have a mistake
doesn't matter, repeat the whole sentence
again and cut out later in the editing all
the sentence a mistake, and nobody won't notice. So have fun and I see
you in the next video.
7. Editing: So, let's talk about editing. You've recorded the video
and now you want to edit it to put out some mistakes, some misspoken
stuff. You name it. So, you can use at a lot
of video editing tools. There are so many on the market. I personally use premium pro. I think it's a really good tool, but it's not free. Went around and looked
what you can use for free. And I found CP cut. It's from TikTok and have a desktop version
and the phone version. We are here on the desktop
version because I think the phone is a little
bit not so handy. So what do you do? You take your clip and drag and drop
it here into the timeline. Let's generate the timeline
and let's hear it. Hey, this is a test
video for you can see that this is a test video for I have to edit something
I'm going to put out. So as you can see, I have
there's some mistakes. That's not a problem for that. We're here in the editing part. So let's go again and look
where to start again. Test video. Video. This is a test video for you
can see that test. So I would say here, make a cut. In the CAP CAT app, you have here some
different options to cut. You can cut normally, but also you can cut and delay the left
or the right part. I think that is most easy because then you don't
need to edit manually. In this case, I want to delay the left part, so I click here. Is the test video for I have to edit something I'm
going to cut out. This part for. So now we want to cut out this part where I say, I
want to cut out this part. So now we click here. Let's say here. Something I going to
we can do it together. And at the end, we're going
to both on video ready. So state. And I also can delay this
one for have on example. This is a short video that could be almost
ready to publish. You can create subtitles. I think Captions
is a better name. Unfortunately, PCAT removed
this from the free version. But there's little
to work around. You can export this video here. Go into the Teco app in
the normal Teo CAPCt. Go into the editing part, and then you can
create automates, and then you can create
automatic subtitles for free, and then download
it again. Yeah. I know it's a little
bit double work. But if you want to have
automatic subtitles, this is the only free
way what I found out. If you have any idea,
just let me know. But we can add here
some music if we want to just look here and
see what is free. For example, mo song lyrics, we drag it below your video. We also go here. And delay the part if
we don't need anymore. As we can see the volume
is much too high, so we just go down. Maybe -25 is good. That is, and that's it. I mean, we could make a
lot more if we want to, we could make animations,
stickers, MODs, whatever. But for just get into it,
get it done, I think. That is a good way
to make a video. Now we only export here. I would say stay
with the settings, click export, and
you're good to go.
8. Upload: So UF VD ready. Now you can upload it in
all the different platforms in I recommend do it in all the platforms,
what support video. So TikTok Instagram wheel, YouTube shorts, and Link
it in, if you have to. So these are four
platforms where you can have is one time the work
four times the output. I think that's pretty cool. You can upload it
manual in all the apps, click upload. That's
the problem at all. But if you want to make your
life a little bit easier, I recommend you use one from
the schedule platforms. They are paid and
also freed version, from a dope. It's free, I think. L et me check out. I'm going to show you here if it's re or not. Also, I personally use
queer square Queer square. I think it's pronounced
more or less like that. So you upload one time
video and this platforms spread your video in all the different
platforms without it open all the different apps. That is pretty cool. But of course, if you
don't want to use that, you also can do it in all
the apps, that's a problem. There is no problem at all. And that's it. You have
your video published.
9. Congratulation: Congratulations. You have
now your first video online. How does it feel? I'm sure
it's feel pretty good, right. So now it's important
to stay on track. I mean, of course,
you could say, yeah, I did one video and I
do the next next year, but you don't go to achieve
any result with that. The perfect scenario
would be daily videos. But I know there's
a lot of work. So I'm currently with my own schedule like
three times in the week, and I recommend to do like batch video to do it in batches. That means don't go ahead and sit down every
day or every three days, every two days, whatever, and record added upload. No, I recommend you
sit down on one day. For example, I do it on Sundays, and you make the videos
or at least record the videos for all the
next week in the batch. Because you have one time
you're setup ready, so use it. Make three, four, five, reduce, how much you can do. And you don't need to
add it all right now. You can jump it up and
make it a little steps. But I recommend to do
it in the batches.
10. Outro: I really hope this course
was helpful to you. Please leave me a review
here on Skillshare. And if you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me. Maybe I see you in
the next course. But
Mathias Deppe, Blending Sales & Filmmaking
