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If you’ve ever wanted to be a YouTuber, but don’t have the charisma to be an excellent speaker or presenter yet, then this podcast is for you. Being comfortable in front of a camera may take some time and practice. In this video, Nate provides us with examples of what to do and what not to do in your YouTube videos.
Welcome back. I’ve got two examples to show you here. This is going to be a shorter video but hopefully it’s helpful for you as it is for me. Alright, so we really want to be conversational when we’re on camera. We want to talk to one person at a time, right through that camera and a lot of times when I’m coaching my clients, maybe they’re reading from a teleprompter, that’s when it’s hard to be conversational and I’ll coach them and I’ll show them, okay, this is what not to do, this is what to do. And I might think I’m pretty good at demonstrating that but I found some examples that do a far better job than me demonstrating, a far better job than I can do. So I want to just jump in. Okay, this is a pretty cool guy. He’s very crafty and he is teaching in this video how he made his own camper, camper trailer from scratch. But I want you to pay attention to a couple things. Notice how he says “thee”. I don’t know why he says the instead of “the” but maybe it just sounds official. He kind of says things in certain phrases, he’s got a certain cadence, he goes through like he’s listing things off. Again, the word that I like is official.
So let’s just play it a little bit here and you can get a feel of his intro. Tavel trailer project and today, I’m going to get you caught up on everything that I’ve completed since finishing the basic frame in the last video and that has been beefing up the trailer tongue, fabricating the wheel wells, adding the floor support structure and the flooring and then filling in the walls with some infill supports as well as window frames and then the most obvious change you will notice is that I’ve clad the whole thing in white painted aluminum that was supplied to me by my local industrial model. Okay so, see what I mean by him sounding really official? It sounds like he’s giving some time of an official report maybe to a committee or something like that, it doesn’t sound like he’s really talking to me. If you’re talking to me, it might be more “Yeah, we’ve made some good progress. You know, we’ve put in the fluorine.” I don’t remember the things he said. But we put in the wheel wells.. It would just be conversational as if you were talking to me next to him or if I were on the phone with him or something like that. Okay, but now I’ve got an even better example than I can demonstrate. Okay, what we’re looking at here. This is actually an actor used as B-roll but pay attention to the voice then it will switch over to Elder Christofferson as he’s talking. And it just sounds so genuine and authentic. This easily could be scripted. I’m betting that he probably had this fully written out but it sounds so genuine and so conversational that I just loved it. And I thought this is a perfect example and I’ve shared this with my clients many times to show them what I mean by you know, be conversational, pause and and whatnot. So I’m going to hit play here. It’s been a blessing to me ever since to have had that rather harrowing experience because of what it meant for my relationship with him. So, I just love… even though it’s just so short. I just love the pauses, you know. What it meant for my relationship with him and he did it you know way better than I did, I’m just trying to imitate what he did there.
You just think about how much more connection you can have with your viewers, if you slow it down and you put more feeling into it, you put more thought into it and you make it more conversational. That’s all I have for you today. I hope that was powerful. Hopefully that was helpful and seen that example. If you’re like me, I know that you’ll want to actually go back and watch these videos so that you can get it in full quality. This is my recorder, recording my screen playing the videos. But I’ll give you the link to these two YouTube videos be sure to subscribe and I’ll see you tomorrow.