 Hello, welcome back to the channel. There's a, as you can see, a bit of a seaside summertime special field to the Creator Academy quiz tonight. But we are live. There is a countdown at the top of the screen. That's how long we've got before tonight's quiz, which is you and me are going to learn everything we need to know about everything we need to do before our YouTube video shoots. There's this thing called the YouTube Creator Academy. It looks like this and it's a free place where we can learn about every single aspect of YouTube. There are 40 courses and I'm doing all of them. I don't know why, but I'm doing one basically every single weekend with you. You and me get to do these course exams live and that's what's happening right now. There's a link at the top of the description down below. If you click on that now, you can actually play along live and we get to do this course exam together. Tonight's course is called Before Your Shoes and these are the lessons that it includes. You don't have to do it. You can just play along with the quiz, but it covers choosing your equipment, developing your ideas and getting ready for your shoes. The course exam tonight only has nine questions so it should be a really nice quick live stream, but if you're new to the channel, hello. My name's Neil Mossy and I'm a development producer helping high-achieving creators and performers just like you, beach high-five, to get ideas out of your head and onto YouTube to make people happy. And up until now I've been making YouTube videos for other companies for a very very long time, but I'm now doing this for myself and I know exactly what you're going through, because I'm going through it too. So this is why I'm doing the course. Hello. We're live from the happy hearts. Welcome to the happy hearts. Did you like the beach opening? That took me an insane amount of travelling and editing today. I felt like we had to have some kind of nod to the holidays in this country and around the world. So wherever you're watching, I hope you have a Sunday night feeling. It's quite hot in the happy heart tonight. I might have to loosen my branded merchandise. But anyway, I shouldn't look at how many people are watching, but I think it's more than me tonight. So it's really great to have you here. And let's punch up the first question because what's been happening is that I've been talking for about 10 minutes before even getting to the first question. And the first question is here. So we're definitely going to do the quiz before your shoot. And the quiz, the link to that is in the description now. So if you click on that now, you can play along and take the course exam in real time, live, along with everyone else watching. So I'm a bit thrown. I need a little drink. So grab a drink. Again, this is the new branded merchandise. I've not looked at how many units I've sold. I just want to sell one thing of either the fleece, a badge, maybe a sticker or a mug. So to pay for this mug. So excuse me, I'll just take a little sip and we'll dive right into the quiz. And maybe we'll have a little chat along. I can see we've got some, we've already got some comments in the chat. So if you're watching this on the replay, leave a comment and say hi, but I'm going to read out some some chats after question one. Question one is, what's a simple all in one camera that's great for vlogging? So what's a simple all in one camera that's great for vlogging? Point and shoot, DSLR, pro grade or super chip? I am going to go for point and shoot because that's what I'm using tonight. I've rigged it up as a little webcam there. So then I'll scroll scroll down, scroll down. That's not right. Hit next. Excuse me. Oh my goodness. I'm so sorry. It's the excitement of another quiz. We've got nine questions tonight. This is question two. I'm going to have to mute my microphone while answering this. The sun can be an excellent source of natural light. True or false? I'm going to mute my microphone while I have a little cough there. I am slightly thrown by this question. This looks like a simple question, but if I switch to my behind the scenes camera, I'll just give you a tour of the happy hut tonight. You should be over my shoulder. Hello. There you are. I'm a bit strength because literally 30 seconds before I went live, I thought, I'll put the ring light on. I'll move the ring light that's lighting the whole back of the hut. I'll actually use it for the first time as a ring light. And it's it's it's kind of blinding me. But I'm hoping that it's it's evening out my natural features. So anyway, that's enough time for you to answer this question. The sun can be an excellent natural source of light. I think I'm going to go for true. And then we're going to do some some live chats. I'll hit next because it's looking rather busy over on the chat. Hello team. Welcome to the happy hut. Let's go straight to meme clips. Hello meme clips. Really good to to see you there. And we've got the word official. Hi Neil. How are you today? I am cool as the other side of the pillow, which is a lie because I'm melting in here. But great to see you there. Thanks for leaving a chat. Vera, hello, please a picture profiles video. Okay. Vera, just for you. What I'm planning is actually going to Brighton on the south coast here in the UK sunny Brighton maybe in a couple of weeks time. And and I'm going to actually take my ZV one out of Intelligent Auto. And I'm going to try and shoot something in a profile that's not automatic. So I'll share that with with you and the entire universe as soon as a door would write back at you. Thanks so much for the kind comments. And we've also got MXB team. Hello, MX and B. Good to see you. Wow. We've got a really good good good game tonight, haven't we? So let's go back to the quiz. Let's go full screen on this. How can you approach equipment if you're new to video making and on a budget? How can you approach equipment if you're new to video making and on a budget? Get the most expensive equipment right away. Don't make videos until you save more money. I wish I'd followed both of those pieces of advice. Third option is buy a camera but no mic since sound is less important. I have gone for the the the road podcaster tonight. I hope you can hear the and I'm so sorry about the April Falls video. I'm not using the Silvercrest SWC 1000. The final option is practice what you have and improve over time. Which one would you go for? I am going to go for option four. Also I'm going to I was going to say that exact moment. I was going to say I'm going to try and bring this video in eight minutes and I can see I've already hit eight minutes. So that's not going to happen this week. Let's get me back on screen. So the next question is if you have an established channel where can you learn more about your audience? YouTube analytics, build an audience demographics, YouTube trending videos, YouTube playlists or YouTube preferred lineups. I've got to mute the microphone again for a little cough. Excuse me. So if you have an established channel where can you learn more about your audience? Look I'm going really well tonight because I also moved my monitor that the actual questions are on to this side so it looks like I'm actually looking at the questions here. So honestly by the time we get to the 40th course exam this is going to be this is going to be gold dust. Anyway I'm going to go for YouTube analytics. Is it me or is it perhaps slightly easier tonight? Let's hit next. So the jeopardy is as you know we have to get you and me we have to get 75% of these correct in order to pass the course exam and get the precious letter of completion and I've remembered to actually sign in this week there was a whole reason why I didn't sign in last week but but we were signed into the documentation is going to be correct. We're going to get this letter of completion if we don't mess up more than three three questions. So next question question five it's always best to have a detailed script before recording it's always best to have a detailed script before recording true or false. I'm going to go for true. After this course we've got during the shoot and then week after that we've got after the shoots and I'm ready this is feeling just a tiny bit too maybe easy so I might jazz up next week's quiz I might go back to the beach and do the whole thing there but we'll see. We'll see what the weather's like and see how the travel situation is here in the UK. So let's go for true for detailed script. Question six three more questions what's a potential benefit of rehearsing your video shoot what's a potential benefit of rehearsing your video shoot you can adjust the dialogue to improve delivery you can work out any technical challenges hey it's a good job I've not rehearsed this one twice already with live video playing. Three you can be prepared with characters or crew or option four it's our favorite option I should get a t-shirt made with the words all of the above on it anyway option four is all of the above I think it's not a stretch to think that the answer to this is all of the above so we tick that one then click next. Question seven what's a good guideline when establishing your visual look I've got to establish a visual look number one never wear the same shirts more than once well if you've seen my thumbnails you'll know that that's not the case with this channel. Number two study viral videos to see what works option three be true to yourself and your brand or the final option spend the most money to make a splash what's a good guideline when establishing your visual look I wow actually that's I think that's quite tough because studying videos would surely work and spending money it could only help surely but I'll go for because we don't have an all of the above I'll go for be true to yourself and your brand a talking of which there's a link in the description I'm I'm definitely going to make this logo smaller so if you want this logo at this size there's a link in the description I think I'm going to go against my son and reduce the size of the logo on my on my merch if only to sell it to myself so buy a second second fleece ready for the summer question eight this is the penultimate question see if we can bring this in in under 15 minutes Cindy will do a remote outdoor shoot for her upcoming video what does she need to consider hey I had the I had a remote outdoor shoot for this opening if you rewind to the video you'll see it shall I show you a bit more of the beach that this is this is how I was looking in the the UK today but let's see what we're going to go for what do you need to consider weather lighting sound or all of the above I'm definitely going to have to make this all of the above t-shirt aren't I I'm going to go for all of the above hey it's gonna be a really quick quiz tonight isn't it we're going to do next week as a pre-record I've decided so this is before your shoots next week's course exam is on during the shoots and I'm going to I think I'm going to record that in advance in Hailing Island on the south coast and then the week after that I'm going to do after the shoot so we'll do that in in Brighton maybe I'll bump into YouTube legends in Brighton like PewDiePie or Mary Spender or Camera Labs so we'll we'll definitely do that we'll do we'll take the that's it we'll take the YouTube Creator Academy on on a beach tour of southern England and I won't go live for two weeks which will be an improvement to my health I think so final question question nine we'll find out if we have gained our letter of completion what can you do before your shoots to minimize delays charge your camera batteries drink a lot of coffee there's a hint there decide on your video title or unpack your equipment so I've got a coffee so which one would you go for did you know what again it did pretty much well all of these I think apply shall put a banner up I'll put a banner up there we go because I've forgotten to do that so what can you do before your shoots to minimize delays I well do you know charge your camera batteries and unpack your equipment surely I'm going to go for camera batteries but I don't feel good about it I don't feel good about it because I think deciding on your video title is a good thing because at least you'll know what you're shooting but we'll go with the camera batteries and then submit we're going to find out will this be the first week where we've failed a youtube creator academy course submit quiz complete so if we've passed if I hit get my letter we should see a delicious letter of completion get my letter go on get it get it yes there it is I'm going to have to make it smaller to fit it all in there we go we did it we did it we've got to have the arms aloft in shots yes so that is uh youtube creator academy course number nine there are 40 courses I counted them I think it's 41 but the trouble is not every single course has an exam some of them have little quizzes and some of them have nothing at all the links in the description if you want to try them out for yourself excuse me another cough I don't know if I'm going to make it through through the week to get to next next Friday I'm going to try and get next week's quiz out next Friday and I'm going to try and do that live as live from the beach and we'll do two weeks at the beach while we've got some nice easy questions uh let's have one final look in the uh in the chat um no more newbie evening near typical yes you come on but you can rewind you can see the big beach seaside summertime special opening no one you've not missed anything honestly it was a good it was as ever an excellent an excellent live stream worth everyone's time but I think the questions were a little bit easy uh tonight so I hope everyone gets their letter of completion uh leave me a comment when this live stream goes up as a replay leave a comment and let me know you got your letter of completion too we'll do this you and me we're gonna we're gonna crack this we're gonna we're gonna do all 40 courses 2021 this this is our year so I think I'm going to keep this short and sweet to keep my viewer retention up and what I'll do is if you're watching the replay up here will be what YouTube thinks you should be watching next and I'll leave some calming images from the beautiful holiday day we've had here in the UK wherever you are in the world good luck with your YouTube channel leave me a link in the comments say hi so we can all come and say hello and see your channel too and I'll just leave you with these scenes thanks for joining me tonight this was a good one thank you