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Okay, let's help you feel like you're able to step into recording your videos with confidence.

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The first thing I'm going to suggest is getting your audio and your lighting correct.

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So if you feel like, meh, my video feels like it doesn't look like great quality, go stand

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in front of a window with really great lighting, like just natural lighting.

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Go stand in front of the window and have your camera with the windows so you're facing the

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window and the camera is facing you and the lighting is all in front of you rather than

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behind you.

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That'll make you feel brighter.

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It'll make you feel just like really clear.

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And then if you have your audio, you don't need a professional camera.

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You don't need a professional mic.

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You don't need professional lighting.

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You can use the resources you have around you to start with.

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For audio, you could use, most of our phones come with headphones that you just plug into

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the bottom of your phone and you can use it and it has a little mic kind of connected

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to it.

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If you use something like that, it'll make your voice 10 times clearer.

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It'll eliminate a lot of the external sound.

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It'll hone in on your voice.

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And then if you have those things set up, you can feel like, oh, this isn't too bad.

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And you'll feel more confident when you're going into the rest of your video.

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I know that if I go into a video and I'm like, meh, I don't like how I look or meh, I don't

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like how the lighting looks bad, I'm just not even going to want to post it.

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So if you can have those things set up, you'll want to, you'll be a little bit more excited

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about going into even just posting your videos.

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So okay, now filming.

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If you're going and filming a long form video, you want it to be landscaped and long because

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that is the format that those videos are supposed to be posted in.

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But we're talking about short form, so we're going to put it up and put it into portrait

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mode where you are, it's like, it should literally be like, here I am, here is my head and the

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top portion of my body.

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Because whenever you're looking at most social platforms, they are portrait, they're set

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up for portrait.

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So Instagram, TikTok, if you were to post a video that is in landscape, it's going to

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shrink your video and leave like a really big blank spaces around it.

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And that's not what you want.

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So start with filming everything portrait mode.

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And then to make yourself feel like what you're communicating is what you're wanting to communicate

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off the bat, unless you feel like you do best off the cuff, if you could have like some

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notes, or even if you wrote yourself like a little script, that is so helpful for you

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to have something that you can reference, like, but instead of having it be word for

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word, and I'm sitting there and I'm reading something off a screen, you're going to feel

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more robotic that way.

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And that people aren't going to feel like they can connect as well to you.

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But if you feel like there's like, okay, I have three bullet points, I know what are

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those three things that I want to talk about in this video, you can have a frame of reference

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from when you're going back, that'll be so much more helpful.

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And then you feel like you're able to do it over and over.

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So like, if I have five videos, I know that I have five sets of notes, and I'm going to

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be able to bust those out so much faster, rather than going and being like, what was

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it that I was saying in this video, and then feeling like you're having to restart over

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and over.

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Speaking of restarting over and over, it is okay that in the beginning, you feel like

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if you have to restart over and over, that is okay.

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You're going to just get more confident and you're going to get better as you do more.

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So likely your first video versus your 10th video are going to be night and day different.

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And that's okay.

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You can just, I would record the same video a couple times and pick your favorite.

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I wouldn't beat yourself up really hard if you're like, I don't like how this sounds

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or I don't see like, you're going to be your biggest critic.

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So I would just post it, it'll be at the bottom of your feed, you're going to get more confident

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over time and your videos that you're more confident in are going to be towards the top

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of your feed and what people are going to be watching anyways.

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So yeah, I'm excited to see what you post.