Lucy Lambriex

How to Make a Great Talking Head Video (Even When Camera Shy)

Hi Nathaël, thanks so much for sharing your first video here. I just love your presence and enthusiasm. It's very contagious and it makes me enthusiastic for you even before knowing what your class is about. That's not easy to do, so well done!  I would like you to try two things that I think will improve your video:  1) Switch the order. First tell the students what they are going to learn in your class (or start with their 'problem', so they have this big idea but how can they break it up into something that is managable? There are your four steps...). Then introduce yourself. You can easily do this without having to record it all over. Except perhaps the greeting part. But just do this to try and feel how that works. 2) Try and cut out a third of the video. Aaaarghh! That's a lot. But, it will make it better. Especially the part about you, can be more concise. I saw several Skillshare channels where they introduced themselves on the overview page with an embedded video. I think that's actually a great idea, so you can keep the intros simply about the class and you can point them at the video on the channel page. (I think I'm going to do it too.) Perhaps try and do this all with the material you have used in this version. Then, when you are satisfied, make a new recording that will be even better! Well done again and enjoy the next stage! ~~~ PS Your snippet bit made me smile. In your final recording of the intro though, if you make a mistake I would suggest recording a new bit of video or just recording the audio again and covering it up with a graphic, rather than spending so much time on the correction. Especially the intro needs to be sharp and concise. In the class itself you can be a little looser, but I would still try and keep up the pace. And: to me snippets made perfect sense for what you meant. (Google says: a small piece or brief extract."snippets of information about the war"synoniemen:piece, bit, scrap, fragment, morsel, particle, shred, snatch, excerpt, extract"snippets of information")

So I did it! Just finished rough editing for my first talking head video. I thought about posting it here, since you helped so much preparing this class. English is not my first language, but I decided to have fun with it and enjoy the process.
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My first talking head video!

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