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• YouTube

  • https://creatoracademy.youtube.com

  • https://www.youtube.com/user/creatoracademy/videos

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?list=PLpjK416fmKwRaxmvpCpNoGOKH_yBO9QPP&v=vEj2iqsQLqw

• Keep in mind that giving other people screen time is also giving them power.

• If you look at the videos in the playlist below you can see that this guy started with a clearly visible microphone next to his face like a telemarketer (in the earliest videos he uses the camera's default mic), he had a stationary camera (on a tripod), the room is lit normally, and the videos are longer on average (7-10 minutes). In his later videos he switches to a hidden mic, the room is lit in a blown-out way that makes it look more like a TV show, he has someone holding the camera, and the videos tend to be shorter (2-5 minutes).

  • http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLA33D9F40D19C5320

• Consider starting your video with a montage to 'hook' people: 

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• For Lloyd:

  • How does he decide whether to include plates or not? And the other decisions he makes.

    • I should figure out how many of the top 50 YouTubers use various techniques.

• Think of things you want to see in the video, and then string them together. This is how George Lucas and Steven Spielberg came up with Raiders of the Lost Ark, and I found a video in which John Cleese of Monty Python says that Python used the exact same method when creating their films:

Quote:

Tim Rice:
[re: how they created Life of Brian]
Was it the laughter idea, or the message? Which was the first of the two that--

Cleese:
It's the laughter, we go for the jokes first. The reason it sounded like an interesting territory to go into, to explore--because when you go in there [to write the movie] you really don't know what you're going to write. We usually sit around for about three days discussing theoretically what we're going to write, then we go and write something completely different. And the film actually starts when somebody comes in halfway through the second week and reads something out and we all laugh. And that's the first point on the graph, do you see what I mean? And then we wait another week and then somebody else writes something funny and then we have two points on the graph, and when we've got about six or seven we start writing stuff to join it together. It's really a pretty slow process, because it's sort of democracy-gone-mad.

Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ni559bHXDg&t=7m

• http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/23/us/politics/senate-race-missouri.html

  • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wqOApBLPio

1. Generate / collect rough ideas for videos.

2. Gradually flesh out an outline for each of those ideas.

3. Do any necessary prep.

4. Set up the shot.

5. Record the footage.

6. Gauge whether you need to rerecord the footage.

7. Put the final footage in an online storage folder.

8. Edit the footage.

9. Create the thumbnail.

10. Upload the video to YouTube.

• State your main idea.

  • Do this at the beginning of the video.

• Use your best judgement to order the following:

  • Give an explanation of your main idea (if appropriate).

  • Give an analogy (if appropriate).

  • Give an example (if appropriate).