 Hey guys, this is JR Fisher and I'm back and we're talking about using iPhones or your cell phone for making videos, the pros and cons of using your phone for YouTube videos. This is part two of three. If you haven't seen video one, you're going to want to go back and watch that before you watch this video. We're talking all about how to learn how to use your phone for YouTube videos and the pros and cons of using your phone. Now I've sold millions of dollars of products online and I've used my iPhone a lot to make videos and I want to share with you some of those secrets in this training so that you can get great results too. If you don't forget, if you missed that first video, you're going to want to go back to that because that's really important before you get to this stage. Okay, let's jump right in and let's get to the training. Now don't forget at the end of this video, give me some comments on this. If you've tried some of this out, if this has worked for you, what you've done to get good results. This series is designed to show you how with just a little bit of planning, you can make some really great videos with nothing more than your iPhone or your smartphone. So in the last video, we talked about lighting and sound. In this video, we're going to cover clothing, your appearance, and backgrounds because those are really important to your audience too. So keep in mind how you present yourself when you are recording a video will definitely impact how well received your information is and if your people even watch your video or like it or subscribe to your channel. So you've got to get that right. Okay, so this is step three, the presentation. It matters so much. You're going to want to think about the image that you're going to want to present to the viewers of your videos. Okay, what's your audience? Are you selling success? You need to present success. Are you selling beauty? Well, some of the largest YouTube channels out there are on beauty. Are you doing DIY type videos? That's another big area too. No matter what type of video you are doing, your presentation is everything. You're selling business stuff. You have to look successful. If you're selling beauty stuff, you're going to want to have your hair and nails done and clothing and all that stuff. If you're selling DIY stuff, you're going to want to seem like you're very organized. You think of somebody like Martha Stewart who for years showed you how to organize your house and how to cook all these great meals and she seemed to have it all together and that's what she presented all while she looked good. She was dressed right. She had her hair done her makeup done all that. That's what people want to see. They want to have that emotion when they're watching your video. So make sure you're thinking about that. That's really super important. Now, let's discuss the background now. You can see here, I had this cool brick wall. The cool brick wall is pretty cool, right? But is that really a brick wall? So if I step back here, let me show you the brick wall. As you can see, there really is no brick wall. It's a backdrop and you can get all kinds of backdrops like this from Amazon. They have hundreds and hundreds of them. If you don't want to go to Amazon, you can go to AliExpress. You can get your backdrops there and these are really inexpensive. You can get them anywhere from $9 on up to $40 or $50 depending on the background that you get. Now the price is really tied to the size and I will tell you because I made this mistake. Don't get a background that's smaller just because it's cheaper because what that does is that restricts how far away your camera can be from you and your background and all your videos are going to have to be up close if you have a little tiny background. If you get a larger background, you can move your camera back and show a little bit more of your background. So don't save $5 or $10 or $20 because you think that's a better deal when later on you're going to need that bigger background. All right, step four, planning your video. You really want to plan your video out in advance and since we're using an iPhone for filming videos, a simple selfie stick with a play button is really a good idea. I have this one here and I really like this selfie stick. It has this play button right here and you can remove it. You can put it back in. It has Bluetooth capabilities so I can actually control the phone by just pressing the button. So that's pretty cool. So when you're thinking about presentation, if you were to do a DIY type video, what you probably want to do is start off your video with the finished product so that the person can see it. Now you don't have to film your videos in the order that it really happened. You can move it around a little bit. So you can start off by filming yourself getting in your car and driving down to the craft store and then maybe you could be inside the craft store doing some shopping, pushing a card around as you're loading up all the stuff and talking about it. And then you can show yourself back at your house actually putting all these items together and in the end of the video, once again, you can show the finished product. People love to go through that journey with you and it'll make your video so much more interesting because they'll feel like they actually went through the entire process of getting in your car and driving to the store and walking in the store and seeing the shopping cart go down all the aisles and then in the very end, they see the finished product. So if you were doing a do it yourself type video, that's what you would probably want to do. Okay, so that pretty much covers the first four steps. We cover two more steps in this video. In the next video, I'm going to talk to you about getting that file off your phone and what you do with it and how you edit it and how you actually make it look good. That's super, super important. Now, don't forget, I promised you, I promised you an e-commerce course. If you look below in the description of this video, you can click and get my $97 course absolutely free by just clicking the link. Don't forget to subscribe to my channel. Click that notification bell too. That's super important so that when I do another video, you will get notified and you'll know about it. Makes sense, right? Don't forget comment below. I want to hear your comments. What have you tried? Have you tried filming with your iPhone or with your Galaxy or whatever kind of phone you have? If you've got a phone and you've tried some of these things, let me know. If you've already done some videos, if you've had issues with them, let me know in the comments below. I want to hear your comments. 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