that's not the point. So I'm, I'm excited, because I was just
kind of stuck in that, you know, it's down deep, kind of a lie
there thing.
I think for every creator, there's always that imposter
syndrome, where we're just like, am I really supposed to be doing
that? And I feel like it just doesn't really go away. It's not
like, oh, well, when I pass 10,000 followers, then I'll take
myself seriously. Like, it seems very much relative to where
you're at. So awesome.
I have a tag on to last night. And so I really, usually I'm not
quiet during the meetings, but I was last night. And of course, I
was just being ministered to by everything that was, was being
said and what's going on. But I have been walking through, like,
both kind of hit within days of each other, some health
challenges over the last week to 10 days, and, and just feeling a
lot of pushback from what feels like, you know, like, pushback
from the enemy. And so I mean, it was like, just everybody that
spoke last night spoke into that. And I was expectant. And
one thing that Lindsay said, you know, when your moment comes,
that moment of clarity, when God, you know, just shows up out
of nowhere, like he did in with the dog and the balloons in
Hannah, which, by the way, when I was going to sleep last night,
I just left out loud, just really enjoying that all the
moments, all the funny moments of last night. But I woke up in
the night. And, and it's hard to not, I'm like, I am really
practicing not thinking on what's going on with my body
right now. And I was settling in, you know, returning my
thoughts to Jesus, and the Lord, he said, I have a question for
you. And I was like, Okay, he said, what, how would you feel
if the devil could no longer influence you by his tactics?
And I was like, really good. I mean, like, I would, like, be
able to receive, like, what you have for me in this, or at least
in one of them, one of the things the other one, I think
not, it's not even on my radar right now. But anyway, but then
he said, How would you feel if the devil was not a part of the
equation for you? I was like, I see where you're going with
this. And he said, You have my permission to remove him from
the equation. And what you said, Mary, last night, you know, just
about the fire and not being burned. I mean, what everybody
said, and, and I, and he said, You're going to get to practice
this and, and, and like, occupy this territory, because it's
going to take you into a deeper level of rest. And that is my
anointing on you. I think it's his anointing on all of us, you
know, layers and, and deeper places of rest. And so anyway,
that's a it's a win. It's a it's a big win for me.
Awesome. Praise God. That's so cool. So good to hear that.
Yeah. And when you once that perspective shifts and changes,
it's almost like, how did I even believe this in the first
place? Like, this is like my new identity. This is my new
reality. Start walking into that. So that's super exciting.
Glad to hear that.
I've also been going through the same kind of thing as Amy, with
my blood pressure.
That's what my news to Marion.
I was being attacked by fear to the point was, I can't put that
cuff on all my blood pressure will go sky high.
I wanted to call you by Marion, because
so this is where God gave me that dream with the car. And
it's like, anyway, you know what he's been teaching me this week.
Sunday, I was in spiritual warfare to get rid of fear. And
it worked. I got rid of it. No more fear in my stomach area.
Now today, I'm still getting the blood pressure rise, right?
Today, I'm just realizing I can shut that off.
It starts, no, and it stops.
So there's a spiritual influence here,
and I believe it is partly spiritual.
God has told me that you need to be able to leave
this behind to go into the next season
because it will stop me from doing things that I should be doing.
And I believe that my blood pressure is totally fear-based.
It's really not regular daily life.
And so what you're saying, you know, that really helps me
because Satan, I had a dream with three different things.
I was fighting, looked like people,
but no matter what I stabbed them with, it didn't work.
And now it's like, this is the second one.
And there's areas where it's just shutting out
that influence when it starts to happen
because there's a reaction inside that's like fear,
and then, you know, everything goes up.
So thank you for sharing, Amy, because that helps me too.
You're welcome.
You know, I just, I feel like this is,
because one of the things that we talked about last Monday night,
but also we've talked about it in these strategies,
is we're led by the spirit.
And I think that there is like a memory,
sort of like the mind needing to be renewed,
but our bodies that have reacted this way in fear to something.
And Mary, you and I just happened to share in the same area,
have, you know, kind of traveled that area.
But it's like, I felt like the Lord told me,
like, you're writing a new record.
I'm writing a new record in your body,
just like, you know, the restored record
to the mind of Christ in your mind.
And so when I had to put that cup on this morning,
I was like, okay, Jesus, we're writing a new record.
And then when I had to lay down because I had a headache,
and I thought, I'm not gonna take it right now,
but laid down for a little while,
I was like, okay, Jesus, we're writing a new record.
And because I know we are,
I'm just gonna exactly ditto what you said.
And like, there are things that we fear would shut me down
if I don't deal with this and get it put in its place.
Yeah, but you know, Amy,
I know that we're gonna come into that place
where we're free of this.
There will be such a joy and such a freedom.
It's gonna be wonderful.
Yes, amen, amen, amen.
It's worth the journey.
It is, it is.
It's that, Xavier, what you said, you know, the how.
Like, I was like, okay, the how is worth the how.
Whatever it is, it's worth the how.
And then I get to thinking that,
what if this is all about us just getting closer
and closer to the Lord,
and this is an important experience?
How else do we get closer except by experiences?
And we have these, you know,
perfectly hand-tooled experiences that push our buttons,
the buttons that God wants to heal.
Yeah.
I feel like, Susie, this whole thing is set up by God.
Oh, yeah.
To trigger those things within us
that He wants to deal with.
And that is so,
it's so comforting to know that He set it up
for us to go through.
It's like, this is the test,
but He's already planned what the answer is gonna be,
what the final destination is.
Right.
What the Lord has taught me about this, too,
in some of my own healing,
is that everything with Him is a go and experience moment.
After we know the Word, He tells it,
and then we go and experience it.
That's our practicing.
But everything He told me,
and take it to Him, of course, and purify,
but everything about my life, every day,
is about building trust between my body and Holy Spirit,
because they don't match, only but through my mind.
And so, every day, I'm very aware of everything I say.
Everything I say, my body, little Bobby, is listening.
And so, it just helps me.
I just had surgery a few weeks ago,
and every day, it was just about talking
about what the Lord says.
And I never even would really say the words.
Bobby was listening. And sure enough, little Bobby's fine. And
she came out of it fine. But I know it was how I you know, he
said, treat your body as though it's a child. And there's just
some things we're not going to say in front of a child, right?
Because you scare the crap out of them. And then that's what
they become a little scared piece of crap. And I hate to
say it that way. But so anyway, so it's trust building. And
Jesus loves trust building time, you know, because that's who we
really are. The only thing that can stop flow of Holy Spirit up
and out of us is little old us, the self of us. So anyways,
that's enough. But great job, everyone.
Yeah, thanks for sharing. That's so encouraging. Well, I love
that we've just what's crazy to think is just like, even a few
months ago for some people or even last year, like, none of us
all knew each other. Right? I knew I knew Bridget, my mom.
That's about it. But, you know, just like, just, I know, like
Marcella, for example, I think you're one of the first people
to join back in January, and others and stuff. And it was
just crazy that, you know, the Lord has connected us in some
way with Lindsay and I and kind of what we're doing here, just
even to each other. I think there's such a cool connection
here. And it's definitely it's for such a time as this, as we
say, like, whatever we're all going through, like the Lord had
this in mind. He had this community in mind. And he had,
you know, each of you have like being connected with each other
and encouraging each other and all that. So it's very exciting
to see all that. And what we're really excited about is like, we
feel like we started our tribe, our team messenger, and we're
super excited to see you guys launching and getting your own
who and and start to do this type of thing. And you have no
idea, like, we're doing this, like we're doing kingdom
messengers, because we were someone else's who like, right,
like, we joined into 100x. And we learned about challenges. And
we learned about movements and like, and how I wouldn't even
know any of this existed. And so it's just like a kingdom
multiplication effect. So it's such a cool thing to be part of.
And Lindsay and I are just we're talking yesterday about how
honored we are to just be able to serve you guys and to hang
out and see you guys, you know, every a couple times every week.
So awesome. Well, this is going to be just a we have, you know,
this is week eight. And so we're going through just kind of
wrapping up this intensive end of September. We have it's been
an awesome eight weeks. I think we've got grown significantly. I
think we were I think the number I'll go check it as well. But I
think we've we've grown by almost 80 or 90,000 followers as
as a community. In the last eight weeks, it's kind of
staggering. But I think we were at 280 or 290. And we've we've
just had everybody join and everybody's been growing. And I
know Milton's not on here. But if you guys didn't see Milton's
post last night, that should really, really encourage
everyone. I want to pull it up real quick here. I actually
pulled up his account. So he has this one post that he did, like
two days ago. And I think the number is that before this week,
like I think he had, I know, was around about 100, maybe 70
followers. And so he had this one post go viral. And it's
pretty, it's pretty funny. He says, like, I know why we're all
so stressed, because we stopped listening. And he like played
the hymn. And then he comes back at the end. He's like, don't you
feel better? It was just like, so fun and so simple. And I
just wanted to highlight that. And so but just this one post, I
think this may be a record of everybody in Kingdom. I don't
think anyone's hit over 200,000 that way. So super, super cool.
And Milton, if you're watching the replay, congrats, man, that
was awesome. Very creative, really fun. Little, little
TikTok. And I and his account, like, you know, blew up from I
don't know, 3500 more people than was there before. So very,
very cool. But I just wanted to show this as well as hopefully
give some encouragement is that you can just with one post can
actually add 1000s of people literally. That's how TikTok
works. I mean, all of your growth is typically coming
directly from just a handful of posts. And so but to go in, you
can't just post these, you know, every time you post, it's going
to be a viral hit. As you know, like Milton's been like, look
how many posts he's made, you know, and you guys have done the
same, like you're just posting a couple times a week, every day.
And, you know, but then you just try different things. Like you
try different things to get to see what works with the
algorithm, what people respond to.
What do people actually watch all the way through the end?
And that just comes by repetition.
So hopefully in these kind of in this intensive, we're just kind of built some new habits of
being intentional and being kind of changing that identity to being someone who creates
and posts often.
If you're just if you're posting every, you know, every day or a couple times a week,
you're just in that habit of posting and you, you know, again, helps you change your identity
as being a creator.
And not just someone who's consuming online.
So just be encouraged, like, keep experimenting with stuff.
Keep trying stuff.
I know we've been encouraging you guys like do shorter posts do, you know, different style,
you know, Tick Tock, seven seconds, 15 seconds, just experiment with it.
I think a lot of this, I was talking with Lindsay today, like we have this sort of content,
like core content pieces that are adding a ton of value and revelation.
But then there's other posts that are just helping, like, they're kind of like an ad
just to kind of get people's attention and bring them into your world.
And so just be have the freedom to kind of experiment with it and have fun with it.
Because Tick Tock is a very creative platform.
So adding in some creative, you know, juice to it makes it can make a lot more entertaining
and can you don't want to just like, be, you know, there to do entertainment and dance
videos and all that.
Just experiment with it.
It doesn't feel like every post has to look exactly the same way you sitting in the same
spot.
Just experiment.
So that was the one thing we wanted to talk through is just kind of this difference between
content that is going out that's more just adding a ton of value or it's adding, you
know, you're sharing some sort of revelation.
And then also just having the freedom to do other pieces of content around that, that
just help point people to back to your, your content.
So that's one thing.
And then we'll talk as well.
I did want to, we, I took a behind the scenes picture last night of our little setup, which
I'm using right now.
I've got my laptop on a cardboard box and our light and our mic, but it works.
And so I just started, some people had questions about some, some gear.
So I had some, you know, recommendations as we're kind of wrapping up eight week intensive.
If there's things that down the road, you guys are looking to upgrade your lighting
or mics or stuff.
I'll throw out some suggestions for that.
But that is it.
And we'll do kind of like a final session on Thursday to wrap up with Lindsay and I
both be on, and we're going to kind of use it as like a way to just to celebrate what
the Lord has done late last eight weeks and what you guys have all been done and we'll
kind of highlight some people.
We actually do have some awards that we're going to be start giving out starting Thursday.
So we have like a one, a one K award.
So once you pass a thousand followers, you'll get a little certificate.
And then if you pass 10,000, we have a little trophy thing that we're actually going to
send to you guys.
So if you have over 10,000, then definitely don't miss Thursday.
And we'll, we'll kind of celebrate that, but we want to kind of celebrate this, these accomplishments
as we go and kind of build that into our kingdom messenger culture, that we are doing
this together, that we're celebrating each other's wins, because when one person wins,
like we just added 3,500 people to the kingdom messenger community reach when Milton had
that one success.
Right.
So it's really cool to see that.
And yeah, that's kind of, and then we've got you guys saw your emails, there's, there's
some options to kind of join us for the next four months after this and kingdom messenger
advancement.
Just if you see that we deliberately did that as a separate video from Lindsay.
So you can go check that out.
If you guys have questions, you can book a call with us and we'll definitely chat with
you.
So those are all the admin things.
And yeah, and then I'll just open it at the end just for any open coaching stuff.
If you guys have, I know there's still tech questions or things we can answer.
But I just definitely want to get you guys any questions that you have at the time.
So that'll sound good.
Awesome.
Cool.
So I'll just, I just want to share the some of the like, tech upgrades that you guys could
consider.
And anytime as well, you can, this is all on kingdom messenger TV.
So I'll just kind of show you where to get to that.
And there's a page here called your recommendations.
And so I'll continue to update this over the, you know, as, as we need to.
And so I would recommend if you're going to buy one piece of gear to upgrade your setup,
I would buy a light kit.
Okay.
So just a single light.
I would, don't worry about a camera,
don't worry about tripods and stuff and teleprompters
and most of the stuff on here.
I would really just focus kind of on these two light kits.
These are great.
You can click on these.
And I think we just linked out to Amazon.
I believe this is this one here.
This one's pretty good.
They have an app and I think I dropped some other ones
into the Facebook group.
I'll pull those up here as well.
But lighting makes a crazy huge difference.
It's pretty much the only thing we bring
when we go on a trip.
So I'm still using,
I'm using our little like laptop webcam right now,
which is not great.
It's roughly like a third the quality of my phone.
So it's actually very, very grainy.
But if you're in a pinch,
like using your iPhone with like some semi decent lighting
will go a really long way.
And again, this is not, it's not,
it's important to make it look and sound good,
but it's not the most important thing.
So we don't really spend a lot of time
talking about lighting and sound.
We just try to have you focus on content
because really that's what is going to cause the most growth.
But a lot of it as well,
even just for yourself,
as you're doing these videos over and over,
a little bit nicer lighting,
it just builds a little bit of extra confidence
and you know that it looks really good.
And again, if you're doing a lot of it,
we've always seen kind of this sort of upgrade,
like buying a light, buying thing,
as this is like us sewing into our own ministry,
you know, for posture.
And we're doing this as if, you know,
this is, we've kind of got this nonprofit called Posture
and we want to help reach people.
So we need tools to do that, right?
And so, you know, I had someone else was telling me
they always think of their stuff
as like part of their tithe.
Like they literally just go find, you know, this gear
and this part of like,
they're not just sewing into their churches, you know,
church ministry and tithing there,
but they're also sewing into their own ministry
that the Lord's called them to.
So just, you know, experiment with it.
I highly recommend Amazon if you have that where you are,
just because you can try it for, I think, 30 days
and set it up, see if it works, see if it's easy,
see if you like it, if it works in your space,
if it's too big or it's too bright or whatever,
and you just pack it up and send it back to them
and then you can buy something else.
And so you can just keep swapping stuff.
That's actually how we found most of our gear
is just by getting, you know, something, trying it.
If we didn't like it, we send it back.
So that's a great way to do it.
You really, and really any good,
like I would kind of stay away from things
like the ring light and some of those
that are a little bit more,
I just, they're kind of for like,
I guess I see influencers using them
for like makeup, beauty tutorials, right?
Like they're just, they tend to have
just like a ring of light.
They have a place for your phone in the middle.
It seems conceptually like a good idea,
but the problem is you get these rings in your eyes,
especially if you have glasses,
but even if you're close to the camera,
like you get these weird white circles,
like outline circles in people's eyes
and it just looks a little intense.
So I would always with your light, try to,
you're thinking, it's not that you want to have light
shooting in at your face and have these harsh shadows.
It's that you want a very soft, natural light.
So our light is, we typically take it
and we just put it high up in the room.
Like I have it on top of a refrigerator right now
and I just put up there and it's just facing the ceiling.
And so the ceiling is like reflecting all that light
and it's nice and soft.
So you actually aren't seeing like
a whole lot of shadows here.
And that's kind of what you want.
Just something that looks very natural
because if you're speaking to people out in the wild,
in the real world,
there's not light shining right on them, right?
It's very natural.
And so there's the sun, it's soft, we've got clouds,
like things are just,
it's kind of creating this very natural, soft thing.
So look for anything with like a soft box on it.
You'll see them, they're kind of these big things
that just look like what you've seen from a photographer.
I'd love to see, because I know some of you guys have,
I know Amy and others have bought some lights.
Is there anything that you guys have tried that has worked?
I think Susie, you got something as well.
I'm happy with mine and I think it costs about $50.
Yeah, that's awesome.
It's just one.
And then I've got a little just clamp on light
on these shelves in front of me.
So the main one is over here.
And then just for the lighting,
I just got a little one on the shelves that I used to use.
I'm pleased.
Awesome.
This one has a range of the blueness to yellowness
and a range of the brightness,
which I guess all of them do.
That's, yeah, that is very helpful.
If you do have something that.
That's the one thing we don't have on ours, it's just ours is just zero to a hundred percent
brightness but if you have something that has like a color temperature so it can go more blue
or more yellow that can be really nice and very helpful depending on like we've got a very yellow
ish looking room here because it's got like these walls I think are like a weird yellowy color.
So you can kind of adjust that just a little bit. I'm going to pull up
the one that I recommended to Ashley here.
I think it was
I'll just go on Facebook it was right over here.
Yeah it's in this post if you guys are looking for all this it's in that post from last night
but this one is has an led but it's got this big softbox on top of it and so what we're talking
about as far as the colors go see if I can get a good see if I can make this big yeah so you have
this thing called color temperature and so the going to like 3200 Kelvin like that is more on
the yellow side and then as you get this number goes up to like 5600 it's going to get more
bluer slash more of like a white light most of your like your lamps and house lights and stuff
are going to be in this warmer tone so one thing you do want to be careful of is not getting
something that is like 5600 by itself and then you have all these other yellow lights and stuff
so you have like yellow lights plus blue lights your a webcam or a phone is going to have a very
hard time trying to adjust for that because it doesn't know what to go off so you kind of want
to make sure that everything in your room is yellow together or it's all going to be blue
it's going to have to kind of all the the lighting has to be kind of the same hue at least to kind of
match so that's something if you do see something where it has like 3200 256 like that it's a great
sign and then um you know this is a great is a little remote and stuff so you can just turning
it on and off all of our light sets up setups as well we try to leave it where it is and we just
have either one switch that we flip or we even have a little outlet that we connect ours to and
i tell um i have alexa i have a i say alexa turn the studio on and then she everything turns on
it's pretty magical um so it's a fun fun trick so um and if you do get something like this where
there is colors to it as well like some of these like like this led is it is it has red green and
blue um color so what you can do is have one big light kind of off to the side um just on one side
you don't need to have both lights kind of matching you exactly and hitting your face like
that you just have one off to the side and then you could take the second light and put it behind
you and just put up a blue you know led and you could even for that where it's just a background
light you can take the softbox off because you don't really care you just want it to be as bright
as possible and it can create a nice look where you have you kind of in full color and the you
know whatever's behind you can just be a color um we do that in our office all the time um
with something similar so cool um but yeah any questions on lighting
that you guys may have i'm happy to answer anything
cool no questions
okay let's just see here
okay um
so uh the lighting is is there like i said if you go on amazon and just look for i think this is what
um if you just look for uh video lighting
i'll just show you there's some really cheap options here as well
uh these are these little panels like this um i have not we've not really used those but what you
is source possible right so like the that's why you use the softbox it creates like this very wide
soft spread you don't want like a like a flashlight this is these are going to be
very small and very um direct so that's probably not going to be good just from um that the panels
are good this is the ring light would save it from that and um i'm just
if you add, like, softbox.
But you'll see some of these lights.
This is probably something like what Suzy has.
It's like $58, and you just get one light.
And it's just, there's three.
You can change to three different color temperature
modes, and it's got a little case,
and it's got a little remote.
So there are a lot.
And again, how I would pick this one, very complicated.
This one has 1,200 reviews.
OK, so that's the one I would pick.
You can just go by the reviews.
And some of these newer ones, they don't have a lot of reviews.
So that's kind of how I typically go about here.
Searching is just go on Amazon, top reviewed.
And then I just see, obviously, it's got good ratings.
But then it's really just a lot.
Like, we've just done a lot of experimentation
with different types of lights.
I started out in sort of church youth group days,
and we got these flood lights from Home Depot.
So if you've ever seen the giant shop lights that are just,
and we just turn those on.
And it was always like 100 degrees in the studio.
And we're like, look, we're filmmakers.
It's just like, you're just looking so bright.
So now we know a little bit more about it.
But that's kind of, I just kept buying different stuff.
Yeah, Marion has a question.
Yeah, when you said the bit about two lights,
one at the front and one at the back,
and you can change the color on the back one
for the background,
what if you have furniture in the background?
Does it have to be a blank wall?
No, no.
So like, that's what we do.
Find some examples.
So you guys know, like our normal setup
is we have a bookshelf and we have,
I have like my guitar and stuff.
And we just wash the whole thing with a blue color.
Okay.
And that can look really good.
And you'll see, there's kind of a look at,
and then for Lindsay's posture and episodes,
we'll do, let me find some examples of this so you can see.
Because for my house, it's all,
they're all very pale walls and I don't show up.
Yeah, and so we have black walls in our studio.
You don't need black walls,
but it's just kind of boring and dark and ominous.
So you see like, we have this little light up here,
which is just an LED.
And then I have, there's something like
these little wash lights
that are just a little panel like that.
And you could see my name is on there
and I just have a blue color
and that's, what's making this blue as well.
And if you look at posture in the most recent episodes,
let's see here, you'll see, we actually have it.
It's more themed yellow.
So if I open this,
now we have to watch an ad.
Always adds, I'm in my work account.
So, but there we go.
So you can see, we've got like a yellow look
cause it's warmer.
That's what we do for posture.
So we have Alexa, we tell her to do the lights to gold
and then it just puts it into posture mode.
And then when we were doing kingdom messengers
or I'm just doing tech stuff, I just do blue.
But it can be, it just, it gives you,
these are some things that you can use
like over and over again.
It's like, you just, you can take that
and put it in a different corner of the room.
You could take it, you know,
and it just kind of gives you a certain look about it.
So if you look at a lot of other YouTubers,
you'll see this kind of thing.
People use it a lot.
It's just a little quick trick to make it,
kind of brings attention to the person
and makes the background not so important.
Yeah, so if I've got pale blue walls, for instance,
would it still make a difference?
Would it make it darker?
See, which is what I've done
because my white hair kind of blends in with the background.
Yeah, so the light is going to shine behind you.
Let me see.
This is, let me,
I actually pulled up a little website here.
That's a good example of this.
These are very complicated.
I'll send you guys some resources.
These are one of the people that I follow.
Okay.
And they just did a bunch of different setups,
but basically what I'm showing here,
I think I can draw on this screen.
So you would have this as your,
sort of your white light here.
And then this other light could just be kind of shining
kind of behind you.
Let's say that's the wall
or if you've got furniture and stuff.
So you don't want,
you want to take the light that's over here
and you want to make sure it doesn't spill onto you.
It's just to get the.
backdrop. So what it'll do is it makes the, whatever's behind you, you can make it blue
or purple or gold or whatever color you want. And it honestly doesn't matter too much if you're on a
yellow wall or a light blue, or even on a black wall. Typically the lighter the walls, the better
because it actually reflects the light versus like if you had a black wall, it'll be more blue
or be more purple, whatever color you pick. And you can obviously like, do you want to make sure
it's subtle. It's not like, you know, that's like piercing, you know, crazy color. And then,
but just probably different things. And if you get a setup as well, you can always
record a test video and then share it with the group or get some feedback on it.
Okay. Yeah.
But yeah.
Thank you.
Awesome. And that's just, that's just one look. There's other,
there's a, there's a lot too. I mean, there's people that obviously that's all they do is
lighting for film sets and stuff, but we're general kind of what we're doing for podcasting
TikToks, like a really good single source light that's soft is, is we'll get you 80% of the way
there. There's an infinite amount of other things you can add, like the colored lights behind,
you could add a, they have like a hit what they call like a hair light or like a helps separate
you from the background. So it's actually a light that stands behind you that's off camera.
And it just kind of washes the back of your head. And it just gives like a little bit of white light
to your shoulders and stuff so that it kind of separates you away from the background a little
bit. But, and I'll see if I can find some examples here. So, oh, here's one example.
I picked the one day we have the worst lighting set up ourselves to talk about lighting,
but see something like this, this is obviously on camera as part of the effect, but you can see
like this light that's coming over his shoulders. Typically you could just take a picture kind of
in that space and it would just, you know, creates like a little bit of separation, you know,
from him in the background. But yeah, anyway, there's lots of stuff on that. Happy to share.
And I think I put a bunch of tutorials on kingdom messenger TV that are just other people
showing their light setup. So you can check that out. Awesome.
Anything specific? Yeah. Xavier says, anything specific different that you do when you're on
the road, we just try to pack really, really light. So not to have too much gear. So we have
this little like mic here. This is the Shure SMV7. And we just, I have it on a little boom arms
and see here. And it just, it, this, this, it looks like a cool podcasting mic that stand was
like $11 on Amazon. And it looks really legit. And it just clamps to any tabletop. So when we're here,
we just, I'm sitting at the dining room table that's here. I can clamp it to any table.
And it just helps them. All it really does is get the mic is sitting like right above me. If I kind
of bring it in, it's like right there. So it's actually very close to me, but it's not on camera.
So did you, were you saying something? No, I was just, I was just wondering,
cause I am on the road and the only thing I really did bring, I didn't even bring my lights
was just my little Yeti mic to do something along those lines. But I just didn't know if there were
any, any other shortcuts or things that you might do when you're away from the studio.
Yeah, I think typically, so we're a fan of like shooting into a corner, as you can tell,
like our studio is the same corner. This is almost exactly the same kind of layout
just because it's a little bit more, it kind of has, rather than kind of being flat up against
the wall, it's just a little bit more interesting. And then, so I actually, I took the dining room
table and I've like shifted it to a 45 degree. So you can, I'm sure Lindsay appreciates all of
But no, that's important to know. Yeah. So sometimes it just made it a matter of like
moving to the side. I'm looking for things that are not distracting.
Like there's a big window right here. It's got a lot of light that's coming in. So,
but yeah, I just try to keep it simple. What we have done other times, this is the first time
we've traveled without, we have like a little DSLR that we set up that's normally right above
there. And it actually, it makes quite a bit difference for this type of tutorials or training
stuff. We just, it was just a whole lot extra to take it out of our setup at home. So I was like,
let me just experiment without it. The newer Mac.
books, like if you see, they just came out, like the M2 MacBook air has a much
better FaceTime camera, if you have a really good, a newer iPad, um, they have
like full HD, your camera on your phone is going to be much, much better.
So if I was recording a tutorial that was going to go to YouTube that I wanted
to be around for a few months, um, I would not use this webcam.
I would use my phone and it would just take a little bit extra time to record
it with the back camera, of course, not the, not the front facing one.
If you're going for that, like as best quality as possible.
Um, that's what I would do.
Um, so yeah, the, the mic, honestly, I think if I switched, but so if I, this
is the, with the Shure M, um, MV7, and if I switched to this one, I don't even
know if you guys can like tell that much, but it's all these things.
Um, there's, there's small like increments.
So I'm bringing up this whole goofy mic and I have to have it now.
It's like plugged into my computer by USB.
Um, so it just adds complexity to it.
So you have to kind of find a sweet spot.
We found like a good mic and a good light.
And if I could only bring one, I would bring a good light.
Um, because if I turned, I'll turn the light off just so you can see how horrible it is.
And while we're waiting, yeah, Bobby, I do like this mic.
Um, but I haven't, it, it, it's way better.
I do most of my filming from my phone.
I've tried lavalier mics.
I've tried what not.
I've just found that the Yeti just picks up way, way better and way easier.
Yeah.
Um, and so it sounds good and it, you know, plugs right into the computer.
So that just plugs into your computer or would I plug it into my phone?
If I'm, um, I don't know if there's an adapter there.
I would think there would be Bruce, you know, of an adapter that can
take a USB mic to the phone.
So if you're doing like a more of a tick tock style, um, there's actually,
um, let me find this real quick.
Um, I take that back.
Yeah.
So find there, there are other ones and yes, I do have an adapter that I can't
plug it into the phone, um, that I do when I'm shooting Bobby, but they're
probably easier mics to use for that.
So you can, it's not really designed for that.
So typically it's comes down to like the power source that, cause like these are
big, these mics are being powered off the computer.
So sometimes your phone doesn't have that much.
Again, these are, this would be something I would try.
I think I've even recommended this one to someone before, but it has an
adapter for like the lightning, um, table.
And this is kind of say again, any mic that's not just like the mic
on your phone is absolutely tiny.
Okay.
So, um, again, it's good for most stuff and tick tock knows
everybody's using their phones.
They do things to the audio to make it sound a little better, but even something
like this $18 lav mic would go into your phone and you can clip it down and it's
black and it can kind of disappear.
Um, you're going to probably get better sound through this.
So just cause anytime you, it doesn't even matter.
So I'm not even too worried that this is like the Yeti is about a hundred dollar
mic.
This sure is about two 50.
Um, the one that we use in the studio that we use all time is a NTG two.
I think it's about four 50.
Um, and it's just, the only reason we do that is because Lindsay and I are
together and it's very like omni-directional so, and it, but it only
picks up our voices really well and not a lot of background noise, but you can
just keep spending as much money, but I can guarantee you that like this $18 mic
will sound better in the right placement at the, you know, nice and close than if
I take a $400 mic and have it and I'm using it totally wrong.
So that's where I would be.
Um, I would, your sound's always going to be better.
The closer you can get the mic to your mouth.
And that's why, like in, when you see speakers, if you see any big church,
like a Bethel or, or any, anything, they have these little tiny mics that come
down that are typically skin colored and they will, um, it's just a little dot
right here, but it's two inches from their mouth, but it's also, they don't
really see it cause people are mostly far away.
Um, so that's good.
I would not use a lock mic on stage, but we guys aren't doing stage stuff,
but, um, for this type of thing.
Yeah.
And your little Apple air pod headphones that came with your iPhone
have an amazing mic as well.
So if you, if you just want to experiment, just use those iPod,
air pod, things like plug it into your phone.
Just kind of have it down.
I've used, you'll see tick talkers will even hold up like the little mic parts
where the little volume thing is.
That's where the mic is and they'll hold it up and they'll speak right into it.
And it's just super loud.
And I've actually used, they hold it kind of like a microphone.
Um, if you're holding it.
Mike, but, um, so yeah, just experiment with all of this.
We figured out just from trying a lot of different things.
Um, so, uh, that's good.
Yeah.
Joe had a, you had a question.
Yeah, it's kind of since you're talking about mics, um, are you, you're not
using Mike for like when you're doing tick tock and that kind of stuff.
You're using it more for long form.
And when you're doing this kind of stuff and, um, The training and stuff,
or how are you using Mike?
Yeah.
So, um, anything that you guys see from an S is using some sort of Mike.
Um, we really rarely, the only, only thing that, um, we'll use the
iPhone Mike for is some of our ads.
So for kingdom messenger, when we do, um, ads for a challenge or something,
uh, then Lizzie just does it with her phone and that is what goes out.
But for ours, we just created one awesome setup in our office.
That also is our studio.
So I sit when I'm not training, I sit at my desk in our studio
and that's where I work every day.
I just, I can turn on the lights or turn them off, uh, as needed.
And even when I hop on like a quick zoom call, if we're even doing a one-on-one
session with you guys, we use that same studio, whether it's a challenge
with hundreds of people or just a one-on-one session, or we're just
chatting with a friend, like that is the setup, we just use it for everything.
Um, and the same thing for Lindsay's, uh, for posture, she'll
just sit at that same spot.
Um, it's not as cool.
Um, we've like her sitting in the office.
She doesn't like that look as much cause it's all black walls and it's dark.
Um, she actually, I really liked her earlier setups.
Um, it, when we first started, she had, um,
Oh, like she was actually in what is now the nursery.
Uh, so that's what happens.
We get a cool backdrop for Hannah, uh, totally worth it.
Let's just go, um, all the way back.
So, um, these are all the lives, but some of these have like anything
fancy, cause a little bit more time.
We did start with, with this, which is the Yeti mic, the same mic, um, that,
uh, that, uh, Xavier has.
Um, we actually use that for the first, so this whole lighting setup,
this is just our living room.
And there's no, there's not, there's no lighting here.
The only bit of gear is this.
And then we have a little DSLR camera above her Peter and she
didn't have a teleprompter.
And that's why you can see the, um, the computer right there.
And we just made it part of the set.
Um, we happened to find like a white mic.
So it just was, you know, kind of a little bit more interesting
than just black and techie.
Um, but you'll see like, maybe not in this episode.
Cause it's nice and shady, but it'll get brighter and darker kind
of throughout the episode, especially if it's a cloudy day and you can see
like, we hadn't, uh, can roll over it.
Um, let's see, cause it's the sun or whatever the day, how it looked, this
is just a little bit too bright and a little too, um, and you know, so, uh,
I guess, so I guess things you can do when you're at it.
Bruce, did we lose you?
Uh, uh, make things better, but, um, I would try to do it all in the camera
with the lighting, with the sound you have, it's very hard to like, you
know, make it sound good and make it look good afterwards.
Yep.
Lost Joe.
Joe's
I can, can you hear me?
Yeah.
Oh, Hey, sorry.
I guess my, uh, my earbud died.
Um, so I guess my question was kind of, um, cause I, you were breaking up for me
there, but, um, so you're using mics.
Um, for like all of your videos and stuff.
But how are you, if you're, are you doing everything on your, onto your computer?
Cause I mean, we're making it with our phone.
So like, I've, I've got the earbud things that I can use for a mic, but like, I
have an XLR mic that I've just had for a long time and I have a mixing board,
all that kind of stuff.
I used to use that for YouTube.
Um, but I don't know how I would, aside from getting into a long production
of moving my video on, getting something like premiere and getting
into some serious editing.
So, so Descript can sync the audio as well.
So like if you record, um, basically to your phone and then you also record to
your computer, you can always sync it up later.
Um, there is ways to get it, like I said, into your phone.
If you just want to have it all right there, this is where it gets complicated.
This is why we don't start with this because no one would ever get a video
um, because we'd be like worrying about what connector I need to get my iPhone
to get this mic and we get, and it's also like, I'll tell you for me, this
is the biggest excuse when it comes to creating content or anything creative.
It's like, well, I don't have the mic yet and the connector.
And I guess I'll just wait till I can get that or buy this or,
you know, figure this out.
And so you end up like never actually creating anything.
So it's better just to speak creating.
And then as, cause you'll actually also appreciate it more now that you've
been doing tech talks and you're doing a couple of weeks and you're posting
them, you're like, actually, this would be amazing if I could just do it this way.
Now you actually start saving time.
Um, doing it way.
So I'm always looking for the most thing that saves us the most time.
So we do for Lindsay's, uh, YouTube videos, we do go from the camera through
the mic and it goes to our computer.
And we use a tool called OBS, which is a free, um, right.
Yeah.
And that's, and she just hits start and it records and then it brings the mic
and the camera and everything together.
And, um, we have some other options and stuff where we can share our screen
and other things, uh, for tutorials.
And then, uh, but if we're doing, if, if we were away from our community,
we're just doing a straight tech talk.
We just use the phone and we go with exactly this, the mic on the phone.
Um, because it's so much, you add so much more time to try to like make
it sound better that you'll end up spending five times longer on that
video, just trying to get the audio synced and then make it sure it all
that, you know, it works, um, and it's probably not worth it.
So we're always looking for just the most, um, the fastest way
to get things, um, out typically.
Bruce, I have that little Lavalier microphone into my phone
and it does make a difference.
Yeah, it does sound better.
Yeah.
All this.
So that that's, that's a great thing is yeah.
I would, I would say something like that.
If you can get it to where I was just saying, like, instead of trying
to like, it, you can always make it more complicated, but the
struggle is to keep it really simple.
So if you have one mic goes into your phone and it's recording it
all together at the same place.
That's awesome.
That really will save you time.
Keep away from being complicated.
Um, I'll say we also, this was the look that we were, um, I was
mentioning with like the white background, which I think is quite nice.
Um, there's one, I look at, um, wireless lapel.
Um, we gave, I got recommended, I think it was the road, my here.
Um, for, uh, Candace.
Um, so she's like doing something very different.
She's actually, you know, um, doing exercises and stuff
and she's moving around a lot.
So this was a little lapel that goes, uh, clips on your shirt.
It's got a little pack and then you can put the other
side of it on the computer.
So if you are moving around or I would say I've seen, um, some
people, uh, um, if they're teaching somewhere, or let's say they're
even just doing a small group and you want to record it, you can
use something like this just so that you have, it's not, you don't
need to, you know, amplify the sound in the meeting, but you
can just have that recording.
It's just kind of clipped on.
And if you want to use it, or if you have someone filming, um, you know,
if you're teaching somewhere, have someone film it in portrait or
just put it on the little stand.
You do your teaching and you can always go back and chop that up.
Um, later.
So something like this would be, would be good.
Um, this one, I think is a hundred and something.
Um, but wireless does make it more complicated.
And then you inevitably are running until keep it simple.
Um, if you can best for your particular set of content, most lapel mic and you
clip it on a shirt.
or something and just get the sound closer or the mic closer to your mouth.
And, and it will just sound more, um, substantial and, you know, and, and more
clear, so that's probably the, that's probably the easiest thing to do to make
it just dramatically improve the sound.
Um, and you saw in Descript as well, there is that little studio check mark.
So if you guys saw that tutorial for Descript, um, they have a little button
and it will actually make the sound, sound amazing, um, sounds like it has a
podcast mic, even if it's coming from your phone.
Uh, so there's little things you can do afterwards as well.
So, but again, it adds a little bit more complexity.
So.
Cool.
I think last, one of the things I used long ago, I haven't used it in a while,
but, uh, one of the external mics attached just to your phone, you know,
something like this, you know, from, from zoom, which really made a huge
difference, especially back then.
But that's just another easy, simple way to, you know, to, to adjust.
Yeah.
And again, you've got, you know, a very tiny mic on your phone that's
designed for doing phone calls right now, trying to film all this stuff with it.
And they've gotten really good, but anytime you have like a better source
like that, like that's a really nice mic that they're now just sending
through into the phone, it's going to sound better.
Just experiments.
I would say like, um, if you guys are creating as much content as most of
you are, it's worth starting to look into some of this stuff, just because
it's kind of like, if you were a carpenter, like you would get into
figuring out not just how to make a table, but like, Hey, there's this
saw versus that versus this drill.
Like you would kind of get all the tools of the trade, right.
And I'm figuring out, so you don't have to be an expert on any of it.
You don't even have to know how any of it works.
As long as you know how to plug it in and it works great.
And that's, that's probably the last thing I'll say about all
this is keep it super simple.
If, if it's confusing and now like, you feel like you can't create content
because you can't get the thing just right, or now it's, it's in the
way and it's distracting, just take it out.
Like we've, I've taken a lot of gear out of our system because it
just, it was, especially if I would set it up one way, and then if I was
busy and Lindsay wanted to record a podcast and she didn't know how to do
it now, because like I had just come in and done it for her, or I thought
it was really simple, but it wasn't.
And so a lot of it, we've just really worked to where we can, you know,
have Alexa turn all the lights on.
I hit this one button on my little, uh, I have a little like pad,
a little stream deck on our desk.
And so it has a record button and a play button and all that stuff on the buttons.
She just hits that and she can go.
Um, and then it's not as creative, like all the things look exactly the same,
but for the sake of keeping it simple and having that confidence
to just it's ready at all times.
Um, that's what we have right now.
So, um, cool.
Yeah.
You don't have to really care about the quality, um, Susie, but as long as
it's, it's something you can just, um, I would say if you're putting a lot
of different content, especially on the longer form content, that's where it,
you know, you're planning on it being around, like, I'm so glad that we did
spend a little extra time on some of those podcasts Lindsay did two years ago,
because some of them are getting, you know, thousands of views still to this
month, and I love that, you know, it's not as good as it is now, but at least
we, we spent a lot of extra time at the time when we recorded it, just to take
a little bit extra time and make sure it looked, looked good.
So, um, it's not the most important thing.
I'll say it again.
Like it is, it is important, but it's not the most important thing.
Uh, so, but something to, to just keep adding and, um, yeah, I'm always happy
anytime you guys want to geek out about gear and stuff, I'm happy to send
you as many Amazon links as you want.
So cool.
Oh, yeah.
I see.
Uh, mom has a question.
I have a question.
So, um, I have only been doing this since we started with you and I spent
time this morning, I'm doing a parent coaching call on Sunday and I got my
notes done this morning, you know, prepared quickly, and then I spent the
next three hours trying to do a TikTok post and that doesn't get in for those
of you who've been doing it longer, does it get any easier?
I mean, it seemed like, you know, preparing something for a coaching
call on Sunday was easy.
I had my notes, I could get it done, but then I wrote my script for the
TikTok and then I recorded it and then I rerecorded it and I still haven't posted.
So does it get any easier?
Is there a way to just say it's good to go or am I being too much of a, you
know, perfectionist or, I mean, you know, some of you have been doing it longer.
What would you say?
For me, Bridget, I have found that when I tried to write it all out and
do it, it sounded so formal.
Okay.
I started just talking, but all I do is.
go through what I'm going to do and really get it into me and pray and speak what's in
my heart. And most times do one take and that's it. Oh, good. Wow. It's not really easy. Okay.
As long as I know my subject and I know what I'm going to say. And when I speak, and my
feelings are coming across, I get more views. Okay, yeah. My husband says I go a little
bit, you know, like a robot sometimes. And so I think that's what you mean. Maybe I need
to just maybe you're trying too hard. Okay, well, that's good. Yeah. I think I'm pushing
it too hard. Yeah. On the other hand, I tend to take so many takes that by the time I'm
done, I've got it memorized. I know. Yeah. I mean, I don't read my script. I just write
it so that I know where I'm going. Because you don't want to be waffling through the
thing. But then sometimes a third or fourth time, I'm not even, you know, I'm just speaking
clearly. But it's just very time consuming. And I'd rather do one a day than do one perfect
one, you know, or not do anything at all. So I think, you know, there's a balance there
trying to find that. So yeah, I think there is a balance. And I'm the perfect example,
because I had to script out everything to make sure I stayed on point. And, you know,
for me, when I started this 20 minutes was short form. You know, we've got it down, but
it does get easier as you do it. And there is this, there's just this learning curve
and this comfortability curve that you have to kind of go through. And once you start
doing it, then you realize, okay, this is what's connecting this is what is it because
being a perfectionist, I would do it again and again and again, until I got it just right.
And now I just want to get through it without stumbling. And if I just managed to do that,
then it's good enough, because the message is out there. And as you do it more than that
becomes easier. So you know, you you learn to focus on on what's really important. It's
just Yeah, it's a matter of just doing it. And the more that you do it, the faster you
get through that.
Yeah. Yeah, I don't know if it gets it gets easier. I think you just you also get like,
I would say for Lindsay, you know, to me, and maybe to you guys, hopefully, she just
starts speaking and you're like, this is amazing. Like, how do you put all these words together
without fumbling around and, and then she'll come and be like, Oh, that was like, she'll
be like stressed afterwards. Like, I'm so sorry. That was like all over the place. And
I was like, this is amazing. Like, what are you talking about? So but so I in my mind,
I'm like, well, you've done 200 podcast episodes. So like, can't you put you know, something
together for five minutes, like super quick, you know, and she never she actually spends
more time now doing an episode than she did when she started, even though she's done so
many because she takes it so much more seriously. And now she's she is writing every word into
scripting it. Again, that's more for the long form and her particular style. She likes everything.
I would say for tick tock, I would only script out that I would I would kind of workshop
that first sentence, like I would look at everything you want to say. And then that
first opening hook, that's really the most important thing you say is going to be in
that first five seconds. So I would write that out or test it or and try to record it
and try it different ways. Saying it different ways to makes it feel as natural as possible.
It almost doesn't matter how the delivery is or how many mistakes and stuff you make
after that. It's just to get people to kind of hook them in that initial thing is most
people like I've even seen one tick tocker who said like, if you're getting around that
200 views, like just consider 200 views, zero views. Yeah, I know. I know that kind of like
stings a little bit, but like, and we have a lot of videos I put out that have less than
200 views. But the algorithm is going to get you 200 views kind of regardless. It's if
you can get past that and break out of what they're showing, that's where you'll start
to get more and more momentum and more followers and more people actually watching it. So they're
going to go get you those 200 views either way. But the difference between 200 views
or getting past 200 views is normally those first couple seconds. It's not 30 seconds
in when you use this scripture instead of that scripture, like no one's even making
it that far. Right. And that's what we want. All we're trying to do in those first few
seconds. So yeah, thank you. Yeah, so that's the only thing I would sort of workshop. Yeah,
cool. I want to say something to Bridget. Like, I feel like, like our all of us have a different
style. I mean, you know, our approach everything. And once you get into the flow of that may not
look like exactly the same thing every time. But you will get more familiar with the
process and pick a hat that maybe you've heard about, you know, that are time-saving tips.
And you don't, I mean, like I have, I've been at this, you know, over a year and I'm just
now implementing things because I was not a techie at all.
And I'm still not, and probably never will be, but, but still, you know, it's just, just
a learning curve and, you know, and, and with time, and that's kind of a big thing.
I mean, you've got this, this coaching call coming, coming up and I mean, like, and there's
been a big push during this eight week intensive, so, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well we have a coaching call once a month with parents and then we've been doing an
empty nest course, which just finished.
So I've been kind of multi-purposing my time and I was working until the end of August.
So I'm hoping to be more focused on this now, but it's not so much that I want it to be
perfect as I don't want it to be a distraction and then people not interested, you know,
I think I really want them to hear what I have to say and I don't want my voice or the
lighting or stumbling to be a distraction, you know, of course there's pride there as
well.
I'll be honest, but these that there's more than the thing of wanting to get the message
across clearly.
So, well, can I just say that you and Marion and anybody that has a beautiful accent, like
who cares about your lighting or anything, people are going to tune in and listen to
what you say.
And that is the absolute truth.
Plus what you both have to say is beautiful in its own right.
So you've got the combo that like, there's a lot of favor on that.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Yeah.
Okay.
Thank you.
If you guys are, if you are creating other content, you're preaching or you're doing
other meetings outside of this, like just try to find ways to repurpose that don't feel
like you have to be, I'm on, I'm doing this one talk.
And then I also have to go and make these totally different disconnected TikToks about
the same topic.
Just line it up.
So that week you're prepping for all that.
So then just take all your notes and just make five or six TikToks out of that while
it's fresh, like that week, while you're still thinking about it.
And the other thing you can do is after the call, you know, just note some good questions.
Sometimes people in those coaching sessions ask a really good question.
You can have a TikTok that says, Hey, today I got the question, this, I didn't get questions
answered.
So that's a, that may be something that could work.
I think my internet is going in and out.
So you guys are all freezing.
Completely missed that last bit, Bruce.
Just saying like, you could use questions.
If you, if you're doing a training or people are asking questions from the audience, you
can just start your TikTok by saying, today I got this question about how to, you know,
implement discipline as a parent or something.
And then you can just state your answer in 60 seconds.
So just use that as content.
Also that is what your who is literally asking you, right?
Or look through your comments.
So there's a lot of places to look for content.
All of our YouTube videos for Kingdom Messengers come from these calls.
You guys ask a question, people are like, Oh, I want to stream to Facebook and YouTube
at the same time.
Okay, perfect.
That's the title of my video, how to stream to YouTube and Facebook at the same time.
Because I didn't come up with that, but someone in this group asked that question.
And so we made a YouTube video and that's what we posted.
And then, you know, it's, it's kind of just having a dialogue back and forth with your
who.
And so if you are doing teaching or training or anything like that, I would just really
purpose as much of that as you can.
And don't feel like you have to go make separate TikToks, you know, on theme.
So a lot of guys now like are just, they just document what's happening.
They don't have a content strategy.
They just, if they're teaching at that conference, they'll pull clips from that conference or
whatever and they repost it, you know, to TikTok.
Or if they're doing a podcast interview, they'll just set up their phone off on the side and
just record it and then use that as, you know, notes.
So there's a lot of different ways to, to, you know, leverage your time that way.
So awesome.
We'll probably get into some like podcasting and interview stuff in the advancement thing
next month, starting in October.
So because that's another great way is to kind of use interviews, even to each other.
If you guys, you know, did interviews with each other to repurpose and kind of build
audiences to, you know, take.
your audience and share with that person, you're, you know, vice versa in that. So, cool.
All right. Well, anyone else had anything? I'm gonna wrap up. Anyone have any other questions?
So, yes. I was gonna kind of ask a question even for Bridget is,
and I may be doing this wrong, but it seems to be working. If I'm doing my
taping or whatever, if I get two-thirds done and I just really make a mistake,
I just let it keep rolling because now your son taught us these great editing techniques.
So, I just let it keep going and then, like, I'll just stand there and kind of cheat and look at
something and then just start back and then I just put it together and it's been working,
unless you tell me it looks bad, Bruce, or, I mean, some of my stuff, like my,
whatever that little story I just had to do, I forget what it's called.
Origin story, yeah. Yeah, that's pretty choppy because that was,
that was kind of a tough one, but, I mean, is that okay to do? Because otherwise,
I took like 40 takes that I have to start over every time and by the end, I'd be exhausted.
So, now I just do one take and just put it all together as long as it's not too choppy.
What are your thoughts, Bruce?
I think you can definitely have it choppy. I think if it's choppy and to the point,
it can bring people really into, I think there's obviously a timeline there where it's so
distracting. It's definitely easier to do it that way. Just let it roll and then just edit it later.
Yeah, it makes total difference for me.
Yeah, you can make it seem less choppy the more you kind of tweak the edit and how exactly you
time it when a camera changes. A lot of people will change between like the camera being
zoomed out and then kind of zoomed in and they just alternate. It's every shot where you're
jumping. It's just like, it's in, it's out, it's in, it's out. And so, just by that movement of
cutting in and cutting back out, if your hand's over here and then it's gone and then it's back,
it's not quite as noticeable because so much is changing on the screen and so much is changing
on the screen. That's a little trick, but there's lots of things like that I would just experiment
with.
Yeah, I might maybe use some editing more.
It made it better for me. It's much more enjoyable now.
Sure.
One problem I had with that though is that even with the cutting it down, my end result was longer
than a minute. So, then I really had to like really cut in, cut out breaths. So, I'm thinking that
what I would do is make it with errors the length it would be so I know, okay, that's less than a
minute. My content then I know is less than a minute and then do what you're talking about.
Because it drove me nuts cutting that thing down.
Yeah, you're going to pay for it in time. Either you're going to do a lot more takes or you're
going to spend a lot more time editing. So, just figure out which one. I prefer to sit and edit
it for hours. That's, I'd rather, but Lindsay likes to get it done perfectly and she'll just
do it over and over until it's right top to bottom. So, but yeah, that's good.
Awesome. Well, good discussion, guys. It was great hanging out. Hopefully, this was helpful.
And we'll be back on Thursday. Like I said, we'll do kind of a final call. If you guys have any
questions, definitely reach out if you have an email about what's coming up next. And we'll look
forward to seeing you on Thursday and do some celebration of everything that's happened last
little bit. So, awesome. We'll see you guys. Thanks so much. Bye. Bye, everybody.