 10 secrets for creating engaging videos and having an amazing on-camera presence Okay, so you want to do videos, but you don't even know where to start Well in this video, I'm gonna walk you through all the steps so that you really do have engaging videos and your on-camera Presence well, it's just gonna be amazing. Don't forget to subscribe hit that subscribe button down there turn on all bell notifications By ringing the bell and that way you're notified each and every time I go live or a Create a new video and I upload you won't miss out Number one have a script now Here's where I Kind of diverge from some people out there some people write out word-for-word what they're gonna say I don't do that. I don't write out word-for-word, but I do have an outline You do have to have some form of outliner script because if you don't do that you can get off track really easy It's very easy to stare into a camera and start talking and just go off on some tangent And it wasn't what you really wanted to do So you've got to get organized you've got to have some type of script or outline I don't like doing it word-for-word perhaps you like doing it word-for-word if you want to do that That's fine too, but keep in mind you do have to be organized Please don't just turn on your camera and assume that you're gonna be awesome And you're gonna talk for 10 or 20 minutes and everybody's gonna love it because it's not gonna work out that way If you're not organized it will show up in your video number two Be animated. Okay. My energy level right now is much higher than it normally is But on video it will come across as more dull more subdued more low-key I don't know why cameras just do that to you So remember number two when you are filming your videos You've got to put a lot of energy in it You've got to have a lot of excitement in your video if you don't have that high level of excitement If you don't have that high level of energy it will show up in your videos Now you may be saying JR. That's not my personality. That's not who I am Well, you can change it for a video. Can't you you could be more animated? Couldn't you you could be more excited? Couldn't you you could be more interesting? Couldn't you the answer is yes, you need to be more animated number three make sure you smile Okay, smiling has been proven to gain confidence in people who see you smile Smiling has been proven to sell more products smiling has been proven to make people who see you feel better You need to smile. Okay. It may not be natural for you. Okay. It's not natural for me to go around smiling all day I mean that would be kind of weird, right? But on videos. I need to do that. I need to smile I need to connect with my audience and so do you and don't think that I'm special that I can smile on key And you can't you can do the same thing. We all have this ability to smile Use it and in your videos people will be more interested more engaged and they'll watch more of your videos Number four your posture is your power now I don't normally sit all straight up with my shoulders square at a desk That would be very uncomfortable But on video it looks a whole lot better. So you really have to be aware of your posture What what are you doing with your arms? What are you doing with your chest? What angle are you sitting at? All these things are super super important. Okay, so you really have to check your posture I would suggest you doing a short clip of you in front of the camera and then taking a look at it And saying how can I improve that? How can I make myself look better? Can do I need to move my arms around more? Do I need to move my arms less? You know, what do I need to do to make my posture look good posture is your power Number five don't let the fear of mistakes mess up your videos Now here's what that means when I'm recording a video like this one right now And I make a mistake. Let's say I made a mistake right now Or I made a mistake now or I made one now As you can see I can just record it over and over and over again till I get it right Don't let those mistakes scare you. They're not permanent. You could always edit them out You can always say what you need to say in a different way So when you make a mistake which you will which I do which everybody does when they're filming on video Stop and just say it over again in a different way Stop and say it over again and pronounce the words correctly. Stop and say it over again with a smile That's all you have to do is stop now I would say give yourself a little bit of a pause Between the last thing you said and the next thing you say or it can be tough to edit out But it's not that hard to do so. Don't let the fear of those little mistakes You know freeze you up because they will happen. They always happen. They happen to all of us Number six speak concisely and slow down I know when I first started doing videos I fell into this trap where I was trying to talk super fast And it doesn't make you sound more intelligent. As a matter of fact, it's very hard to follow when you speak super fast Now I normally speak pretty fast So for videos, I have to slow down and I would suggest you do the same thing A lot of us think that if we talk fast, it's going to be a better video. It's going to be more high energy That's not really necessarily true. It's just going to be faster. That's all so you do want to slow down You want to be as concise as you can you want to use the most correct words you can to describe what you've got to say And you want to try to connect with your audience Number seven make sure you have brief pauses now I just mentioned this a second ago about mistakes But when you switch from one subject to the next or one idea to the next Give yourself a little bit of a pause there because you're going to need that space on your recording to edit out things You're going to need it. Trust me. I I need those things all the time. So it's nice But I'm I'm looking at my timeline of all my recordings and I see a big space there I know I can take that space out and I can match it up to the way I want it to sound So make sure you have some pauses when you are recording Number eight connect on a one-on-one basis. Here's what I mean by that So many people think I'm doing a video and I'm talking to a thousand people. I'm talking to a hundred people You're not okay. You're not you're really talking to one person And if you do that connection where you feel like hey, I'm actually talking to an individual And I'm telling this individual how to do something Your video is going to come across a whole lot better than if you feel like you're talking to some big audience Because you're really not talking to one big audience There's not a thousand people in a room that are listening to you or 500 or 100 There's one person at home in front of their laptop There's one person sitting in their car in a parking lot looking at their phone It's just one person you're talking to and as soon as you understand that concept as soon as you understand You're talking to one person your videos will improve number nine Record yourself and watch it. Yeah record yourself and watch it This is something a lot of people don't do they do a whole lot of recordings and then they go back and they go Oh, I didn't like this and I was sitting at this angle and my shirt didn't look good and my microphone was crooked and all these things Record yourself for a minute or two. Okay. See what you look like on camera. See what you want to improve See what you would like to correct. You have this ability. Okay, it's a little bit more work And I think that's the thing with shooting videos A lot of people think well, I'm just gonna go in and shoot a video real quick And I'm gonna be done It takes hours and hours and hours to produce a good video And I know that's going to be disappointing for some of you to hear you're going to go Oh my gosh, I thought I could do this in five minutes. I watch five minute videos all the time It only takes five minutes. Well, it may be a five minute video But that person probably set up an area to shoot it. They probably got the sound right. They probably got the lighting right They probably had some sort of script or outline. They did a lot of things to prepare for maybe they did some research for it I know I do research for all of my videos. So Shooting a video takes time So if you try to rush through it and you try to do it all in one take and you never go back and see What you look like on camera. They're not going to be as good. So take my warning with this guys Do those things Prepare look at your videos make the corrections and then you can go back and record it the way you want And the last thing the last thing let me show it to you Is this This right here water You must stay hydrated Throughout filming of videos, you should have a bottle of water a glass of water You should have a lot of water. I know when I record videos a single day It's hard to stay hydrated because first off It's not natural to talk for hours on end And that's what I do when I shoot videos right because I'll come in here and I'll shoot six or ten or twelve videos It's not normal to talk that long and when you talk that long you tend to dry out You also have a higher anxiety level. So that's going to burn up more Water in your system. Okay, so make sure you stay hydrated. That's probably one of the Number one things that I didn't do in the beginning that now I always do I can't imagine shooting videos now without having a bottle of water or a glass of water next to me Because it would just be impossible It would be so difficult to actually record videos without water. 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