WEBVTT 00:00.140 --> 00:04.010 In this video, we're going to play a very fun game and we're going to play. 00:04.010 --> 00:10.520 Let's watch one of Alex's earliest, earliest videos, and let's find all the things that are wrong 00:10.520 --> 00:16.820 with it so that they will be lessons for you not to make those mistakes, because it's likely that certainly 00:16.820 --> 00:21.590 some mistakes are quite repeatable if you're beginning, then when I was beginning, I probably were 00:21.590 --> 00:23.060 probably making a similar mistakes. 00:23.060 --> 00:26.270 And let's see what we can find right away. 00:26.270 --> 00:27.140 What's wrong here? 00:27.140 --> 00:29.510 Number one too close to the camera. 00:29.510 --> 00:33.680 Number two, I put absolutely no thought to the background. 00:33.680 --> 00:39.470 Number three, I put even less thought to the background than no thought because it's dark outside and 00:39.470 --> 00:40.760 it's even worse. 00:40.760 --> 00:41.210 Sort of. 00:41.210 --> 00:46.580 You see, it's nighttime, so it's kind of an even a worse time to film than if it was daytime. 00:46.580 --> 00:50.240 So not only is my setting bad, it looks weird and you can see my light. 00:50.240 --> 00:51.560 It just really professional. 00:51.560 --> 00:53.270 The camera angle is way off. 00:53.270 --> 00:58.850 You can see that I'm recording from the computer, and the computer is angled so that you can see my 00:58.850 --> 01:05.720 ceiling and and at least the good news about this video is that I look a little younger, which is a 01:05.720 --> 01:07.010 nice thing for me to see. 01:07.010 --> 01:08.180 I guess I'm aging. 01:08.180 --> 01:10.880 It's weird, like making videos every day for years. 01:10.880 --> 01:14.240 You can really see your life and you can see yourself getting older. 01:14.270 --> 01:14.960 Sad part. 01:14.960 --> 01:16.670 Okay, we're moving on from the sad moment. 01:16.670 --> 01:20.540 So those are the initial mistakes. 01:20.540 --> 01:22.970 Now let's listen to the video a little bit. 01:22.970 --> 01:24.260 I'm going to turn on the volume. 01:24.260 --> 01:27.470 Let's listen a little bit and see if we can find more mistakes. 01:27.470 --> 01:30.800 I already can tell you that eight minutes and 37 seconds. 01:30.800 --> 01:35.030 This video probably could have been 3 minutes or 2 minutes, but that was what I could do. 01:35.030 --> 01:38.270 Then in the beginning of this video, I say, hi everyone! 01:38.270 --> 01:41.990 This is actually a mistake that most beginners make. 01:41.990 --> 01:48.140 They say hi everyone, because people assume that a lot of people are going to watch, but everyone 01:48.140 --> 01:52.220 watches individually, so I never say hi everyone anymore. 01:52.220 --> 01:53.270 That's actually wrong. 01:53.270 --> 02:01.070 You want to either skip saying hello entirely, or you want to brand yourself, or you want to say hello 02:01.070 --> 02:02.660 to the individual watch in there. 02:02.660 --> 02:09.050 So sometimes I might say hi there, or welcome to my video or something like that, or I might not even 02:09.050 --> 02:09.860 address them. 02:09.860 --> 02:14.630 What I sometimes do now is I get right to the point of the video. 02:14.630 --> 02:18.380 I say in this video, we're going to get this and this and this benefit for you. 02:18.380 --> 02:19.400 So stay tuned. 02:19.400 --> 02:21.170 It's very straightforward. 02:21.170 --> 02:23.300 I don't play any games with the viewer. 02:23.300 --> 02:24.560 I don't waste their time. 02:24.560 --> 02:27.440 And I tell them exactly what's in it for them so that they stay. 02:27.440 --> 02:33.230 And I think people appreciate the directness because I hate videos that you spend 40s on them a minute 02:33.230 --> 02:35.360 and you still haven't even started the video. 02:35.360 --> 02:39.320 Like they're branding, they're promoting stuff, but like they need to get to the point. 02:39.320 --> 02:43.340 So now I try to get to the point and I try to address the individual. 02:43.340 --> 02:45.620 So I recommend that you do not say hi everyone. 02:45.620 --> 02:49.910 A lot of people that I coach on video creation, they do say hi everyone. 02:49.910 --> 02:51.620 When they start, let's resume. 02:52.220 --> 02:56.600 We're going to be about how do you know who is good? 02:56.600 --> 02:58.220 There's a couple of mistakes there. 02:58.220 --> 02:59.000 Right away. 02:59.000 --> 03:01.910 You heard me say, um, it's really good. 03:01.910 --> 03:04.670 If you practice, you'll get most of the arms. 03:04.670 --> 03:09.020 Likes those parasite words out of your system eventually. 03:09.020 --> 03:12.410 Also, I did a really gross kind of a tongue smack. 03:12.410 --> 03:18.110 I'm gonna go back for a second and you'll hear me go, like, burp out. 03:19.190 --> 03:20.120 You heard that? 03:20.120 --> 03:21.590 People don't want to listen to that. 03:21.590 --> 03:23.510 So take a second to swallow. 03:23.510 --> 03:25.880 If you have spit in your mouth or something like that. 03:25.880 --> 03:30.770 It's a very common thing that happens to people, and you've got to control that by not making that 03:30.770 --> 03:31.520 sound. 03:31.520 --> 03:33.650 Because people, for many people, it's gross. 03:33.650 --> 03:35.300 They notice that and it grosses them out. 03:35.300 --> 03:39.980 Also, I think my excitement level can be a little higher. 03:39.980 --> 03:43.490 I'm a little too casual on this for online video. 03:43.490 --> 03:50.180 This might be a good pace of speech for regular conversation in person, but for online video you got 03:50.180 --> 03:50.840 to speed it up. 03:50.840 --> 03:57.080 I'm a little bit too casual and too slow, and that's why the video is eight minutes and 37 seconds. 03:57.080 --> 04:04.040 I've got parasite words, I've got two slow speech delivery, and so I say fewer things in the time 04:04.040 --> 04:04.580 I have. 04:04.580 --> 04:08.120 Let's resume is good, right. 04:09.290 --> 04:14.840 And one of the core things to consider is. 04:16.110 --> 04:17.610 This video is not prepared. 04:17.610 --> 04:23.370 I am waffling, meandering, going like um, thinking too long. 04:23.370 --> 04:24.990 I'm tired, it's nighttime. 04:24.990 --> 04:28.110 I'm not saying that I'm tired in this video, but I'm obviously a little tired. 04:28.110 --> 04:29.550 My brain's working a little slowly. 04:29.550 --> 04:32.190 I'm too relaxed and this is not a good time to film. 04:32.190 --> 04:33.990 If you are tired, don't film. 04:33.990 --> 04:36.510 You need to be excited, energetic. 04:36.510 --> 04:42.540 You don't want to be too crazy energetic, but at the same time, you want to be brisk and energetic 04:42.540 --> 04:46.440 enough so that this energy gets transferred to your users. 04:46.440 --> 04:51.090 And if they like what you're saying, if they enjoy in the video, they'll feel better. 04:51.090 --> 04:53.370 Let's watch a little more and then we'll quit this one. 04:54.840 --> 04:57.270 This idea is quite right from the beginning. 04:57.840 --> 05:04.950 So, um, most of them are actually getting media over and over until later. 05:05.520 --> 05:11.640 Uh, and still too many arms and the tongue smacks. 05:11.640 --> 05:14.280 I'm making the same mistakes over and over. 05:14.280 --> 05:18.600 There is no sense of watching this too long, because I'm just going to keep making the same mistakes 05:18.600 --> 05:19.350 over and over. 05:19.350 --> 05:25.710 The one thing I really say that I haven't said yet about this is that I am making this video in a such 05:25.710 --> 05:32.190 a relaxed way, because I think that I was operating under the assumption that people will think that 05:32.190 --> 05:38.670 I have something really great to say, where I think that's an assumption that's correct for some viewers 05:38.670 --> 05:41.550 might appreciate that, but not all viewers. 05:41.550 --> 05:44.130 Some viewers don't know me, some viewers know me. 05:44.130 --> 05:51.960 I don't want to assume that people will know my background or what I've done. 05:51.960 --> 05:52.890 Now. 05:52.890 --> 05:59.100 I assume that viewers, they want quick delivery, quick value, they want to get in, they want to 05:59.100 --> 05:59.520 get out. 05:59.520 --> 06:04.590 And there's some moments for personality building but very little. 06:04.590 --> 06:08.400 And the stuff I have to say, it's been said before by other people. 06:08.400 --> 06:14.910 So it's not like I'm saying such brilliant things that I can take so much liberty in waffling and all 06:14.910 --> 06:15.270 that. 06:15.270 --> 06:18.000 I still have to make sure that I really perform. 06:18.000 --> 06:21.840 So I think the assumption I'm going under is that I can relax a little bit. 06:21.840 --> 06:27.060 Now when I make videos, when I make courses, my mindset is I've got to be on top of my game, I've 06:27.060 --> 06:27.960 got to deliver it. 06:27.960 --> 06:34.860 I've got to make the video as fast and actionable and informative and insightful as possible. 06:34.860 --> 06:38.730 And I got to condense the most value in as little a time. 06:38.730 --> 06:41.460 And it's something I'm definitely not doing here. 06:41.460 --> 06:43.170 I'm taking my sweet time. 06:43.170 --> 06:44.820 People don't love that. 06:44.820 --> 06:49.260 So these are the general mistakes that I notice right away. 06:49.260 --> 06:54.420 They're easy to fix and try to watch your own videos and see, are you making any of these?