In this blog I write about everything you need to know. How to promote your channel, how to promote your business, how to organize your life, and a bunch of other things.
Showing posts with label how to make cheap videos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label how to make cheap videos. Show all posts
Lately I've been looking for a good place for free music to use commercially on my YouTube
Channel. If you want to make money off of videos with music in them, you need a commercial license for the music. Normally you have to pay a lot of money for these licenses. I found a free site where it's easy to find music with free commercial licenses.
The way to find the free commercially licensed music is simple. First, find the column with search at the top. Second, click sound (it's under everything) Third, go down to filter results. Go to the third item and click "to use commercially" Fourth, search for what you want using the big search bar.
Conclusion
I hope this helps! If you have a better site please share it in the comments. If you have any questions, feel free to ask in the comments, or on twitter @creativevideo12
Using a shot list becomes easy over time, and it makes your production day(s) much easier and simpler. I use a shot lists instead of story boards, but you can chose to do both, just a story board, or just a shot list. To use a shot list you must have two things. First, you need a shot list template. Second you need to know how to write. I'm pretty sure you can all manage this.
How to use a Basic shot list
The information you need to add to your shot list varies. The key things you want to add to your basic shot list are the shot numbers, shot type/ angle (e.g wide portrait, close portrait....etc), and action. You could use the image next to this paragraph for a basic shot list.
How to use a more inclusive shot list
If you want a more inclusive shot list use this one. For the more inclusive shot list you'll want. Your scene #, shot #, whether it's interior or exterior, shot type, location of the shot, description of the shot, and then any additional comments.
Tips
The shot list right here is the one that I use. However, I don't always fill in all of the blanks.
It's a good idea to have a folder to put your shot lists into. It's nice to have some sort of divider in between your different videos, and then also have each videos shot lists in order of the days of shooting. Remember that when your writing your shot list you want to put the shots in the order you'll shoot, not the order that you'll see in the final edit.
Conclusion
I hope this helps! If you have a better shot list, or any other tips please leave them in the comment section or ask me on twitter @creativevideo12.
This effect is really easy. What we did is get a bunch of different angles of me preparing to jump out of the window. Then we got two angles of me actually jumping out of the window. (It was onto a trampoline)
After we got those shots we pulled the trampoline just out of view. We put the camera in the window that I had jumped from, and started recording. I got up onto the trampoline and jumped of as high as I could, towards the spot where I would have landed if I had jumped out of the window. If you look closely at the footage you'll see that I'm traveling sideways.
We then mashed up all of the angles created the final product.
Other Ways
You can do this effect other ways. You could film someone in a second story window. Make sure that you show that their in a second story window. Then go to a different 1 story window that looks similar. Get really low, right underneath them. Record them jumping. Now go back to where you were originally and get low to the ground. Have them jump into frame and act like they hit the ground really hard.
Conclusion
If you haven't seen the video, you can watch it right below this text. If you attempt this effect I would love to see it. Leave a link in the comments.
The site is called beatpick. It has a ton of different songs. You can narrow down your results, and get a list of songs that will fit to your video perfectly.
Tricks
Now to downloads the songs for free there is a trick. First you have to find the song you want. Then add it to your beatlist.
After you have all of the songs your going to want, click the "license" icon in your beatlist. Once you've gotten to the licensing page click on "try before you license." Now fill out the form. You only have to give a real email. The rest of the information is irrelevant.
Other Way
The other way to get free music is to click on "Show only songs for free non commercial use" It's above the songs titles to the right. Then when you have all the songs you want click license. Once your to the licensing page click on "non commercial projects" Do what it asks, and there are your songs.
Conclusion
I hope this site helps you as much as it's helped me. If you have a better site to get music from please share.
So you want to know how to use your blog to advertise your YouTube Channel. Well here it is. First your going to need to make a blog. Some great free sites are,
After you've gotten your blog setup you can start writing. When people are looking for a blog to read they are trying to find interesting content.
Title
Once you have a blog with good content you might still not be getting very many clicks. The reason for this is because people will only click on the blog if the title looks interesting. A great way to get clicks is by asking a question in the title. People want to know things, it's in our nature. So when titling your blog try and exploit that.
Promoting your YouTube Channel
Now just having people view your blog isn't going to advertise your channel. You need to embed your videos into your blog post. Try and get people interested in your video while they're reading your blog so they click on it next.
Conclusion
So in conclusion we see that to advertise a YouTube channel with a blog you need, a good title to get people to click, then you need good content that gets people interested in your videos. If you do these things you'll be sure to start building a large YouTube channel.
To be successful at marketing there is one key component. That key component is your story. To be successful at marketing you need a "great story."
There are nine parts to a great story. Here they are.
1. A great story is true
Not factual, but consistent and authentic.
2. A great story makes a promise
You'll receive money, fun, safety, shortcuts. The promise is bold and it's exceptional.
3. A great story is trusted
No marketer can be truly successful, unless they have credibility.
4. A great story is subtle
Let the audience draw the conclusion.
5. A great story is fast
It should engage the consumer right away. The first impression is more powerful than you would imagine.
6. A great story is NOT aimed at everyone
If you need to water down your story to fit everyone. It will not succeed.
7. A great story does NOT appeal to logic, but to our senses
People decide what they want and like through their senses.
8. A great story doesn't contradict itself
You need to match the image to the message.
9. A great story agrees with our worldviews.
Great stories don't teach new things, they agree with current beliefs.
So there you have it, the nine parts to a great story.
A great story,
1. is true
2. makes a promise
3. is trusted
4. is subtle
5. is fast
6. is NOT aimed at everyone
7. does NOT appeal to logic, but to our senses
8. doesn't contradict itself
9. agrees with our worldviews.
A question that gets asked a lot is, "How to make a good YouTube video?" The answer to that question can vary a lot depending on the type of videos your making. However, there are some key components that remain the same across the board.
Equipment
The two biggest components in making a good video are video and audio. Now don't get me wrong, you DO NOT need a $800 camera, or a $300 dollar microphone to make a good video. What you do need is a camera that shoots decent quality video, and depending on the type of videos your making, you either need a microphone, other than the one on your camera, or clear sounding music to overlay the video. It is nice if you have good lighting, but that's another topic.
Software
Another thing you need is an editing software. There are many free ones out there. My favorites are, Windows Movie maker for a Windows operating system, Kdenlive for an Ubuntu operating system, and iMovie for a Mac running system. The one I use the most is by far Kdenlive, because it does a lot of things that Windows movie Maker and iMovie can't do.
You might also need an audio editor. I have found that Audacity works best for all running systems. It's easy to use, has a lot of great features like autotune, and it works great.
Content
Now that we have all of the equipment and software that we need, it's time to discuss content. The content in your video needs to be entertaining if it's going to be good. You can't make a very good video by filming a cup on the table.
To make interesting content you need to figure out the audience your trying to reach. A guy looking for video game commentary is not going to be interested in a makeup tutorial. In the same way a girl looking for a makeup tutorial is not going to be interested in a video game commentary.
So after you discover what your interested in making, let's say you chose to make a vlog. When people are watching a vlog they want to watch someone with an interesting personality tell an interesting story. They don't want to listen to a monotone person tell a story about their boring life. Do you see what I'm trying to say?
In the same way if your making short films, you need to tell a good story, not a boring story. When your making short films it's not just about a good story. You could have the greatest story ever, but if you don't execute the shooting and editing part, it could turn into a big blob of bad.
Recap
So for a recap we see that we need a few things to make a good video. We need a good camera, and a good microphone. We need an editing software for video, and sometimes for audio. But most importantly, we need a story that gets people interested.
Challenge
Tell me in the comments if you think this video failed. If it did fail, then tell me how it failed.
The first thing you need to do is create a Twitter account. When your doing this, make sure that you
have your brand highlighted. Set your name as the name of your company. Then set the @ to your companies name also. This way when people see your twitter account they know who you are.
The next thing you'll want to do is summarize your business in the "Bio" section. Then you'll want to add a profile picture. For this you'll want to pick the picture that represents your business the best. Two ideas are, first your company logo, second a picture of people enjoying your product. For instance if you sold board games, you would have a picture of people enjoying one of your board games.
Now you have your twitter account, but no followers. The first thing that you can do to gain followers is have all of your friends and family follow you. The problem with this is that you only have so many family members and friends. Plus they probably already know about your company.
The whole point of using twitter for marketing, or any other means of marketing for that matter, is to spread the word about your company. So the way to get more followers is to find people who fit your targeted group. To do this I use a site called Twellow. It is super easy to use. Just find the category your looking for and start following other people. Most of the people you follow will follow you back.
Now it doesn't end there. You'll have to keep on freeing up your following space. Twitter will only allow you 2000 following, until your exceed that number in followers. You could use Twellow to unfollow the people who aren't following you back, but I prefer Twitter Auto Follow Back. Twitter Auto Follow back is much quicker, when your trying to unfollow any more then ten people.
Using your Twitter Followers
Now that you have your twitter followers, what do you do? It's simple, let them know when your having promotions, getting new products, or any other noteworthy thing happens. Make sure that you post on a regular basis, that way people don't unfollow, because they think your inactive.
There you have it. How to use Twitter as an online marketing tool. The links to the sites I mentioned are below. They're also where I first mentioned them, also.
