Okay, let's help you feel like you're able to step into recording your videos with confidence.
The first thing I'm going to suggest is getting your audio and your lighting correct.
So if you feel like, meh, my video feels like it doesn't look like great quality, go stand
in front of a window with really great lighting, like just natural lighting.
Go stand in front of the window and have your camera with the windows so you're facing the
window and the camera is facing you and the lighting is all in front of you rather than
behind you.
That'll make you feel brighter.
It'll make you feel just like really clear.
And then if you have your audio, you don't need a professional camera.
You don't need a professional mic.
You don't need professional lighting.
You can use the resources you have around you to start with.
For audio, you could use, most of our phones come with headphones that you just plug into
the bottom of your phone and you can use it and it has a little mic kind of connected
to it.
If you use something like that, it'll make your voice 10 times clearer.
It'll eliminate a lot of the external sound.
It'll hone in on your voice.
And then if you have those things set up, you can feel like, oh, this isn't too bad.
And you'll feel more confident when you're going into the rest of your video.
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
like how the lighting looks bad, I'm just not even going to want to post it.
So if you can have those things set up, you'll want to, you'll be a little bit more excited
about going into even just posting your videos.
So okay, now filming.
If you're going and filming a long form video, you want it to be landscaped and long because
that is the format that those videos are supposed to be posted in.
But we're talking about short form, so we're going to put it up and put it into portrait
mode where you are, it's like, it should literally be like, here I am, here is my head and the
top portion of my body.
Because whenever you're looking at most social platforms, they are portrait, they're set
up for portrait.
So Instagram, TikTok, if you were to post a video that is in landscape, it's going to
shrink your video and leave like a really big blank spaces around it.
And that's not what you want.
So start with filming everything portrait mode.
And then to make yourself feel like what you're communicating is what you're wanting to communicate
off the bat, unless you feel like you do best off the cuff, if you could have like some
notes, or even if you wrote yourself like a little script, that is so helpful for you
to have something that you can reference, like, but instead of having it be word for
word, and I'm sitting there and I'm reading something off a screen, you're going to feel
more robotic that way.
And that people aren't going to feel like they can connect as well to you.
But if you feel like there's like, okay, I have three bullet points, I know what are
those three things that I want to talk about in this video, you can have a frame of reference
from when you're going back, that'll be so much more helpful.
And then you feel like you're able to do it over and over.
So like, if I have five videos, I know that I have five sets of notes, and I'm going to
be able to bust those out so much faster, rather than going and being like, what was
it that I was saying in this video, and then feeling like you're having to restart over
and over.
Speaking of restarting over and over, it is okay that in the beginning, you feel like
if you have to restart over and over, that is okay.
You're going to just get more confident and you're going to get better as you do more.
So likely your first video versus your 10th video are going to be night and day different.
And that's okay.
You can just, I would record the same video a couple times and pick your favorite.
I wouldn't beat yourself up really hard if you're like, I don't like how this sounds
or I don't see like, you're going to be your biggest critic.
So I would just post it, it'll be at the bottom of your feed, you're going to get more confident
over time and your videos that you're more confident in are going to be towards the top
of your feed and what people are going to be watching anyways.
So yeah, I'm excited to see what you post.