WEBVTT 00:00.520 --> 00:04.420 In this video, I want to introduce you to the talking head video genre. 00:04.450 --> 00:10.540 This is an interesting one because on the one hand, it's the easiest to start with. 00:10.580 --> 00:12.340 You just point the camera and shoot. 00:12.490 --> 00:19.720 On the other hand, it's one of the hardest unless you're outside and doing some kind of action, that's 00:19.720 --> 00:20.350 much harder. 00:20.350 --> 00:23.320 But this is actually really hard to get right. 00:23.350 --> 00:26.320 There's a million elements to get this right. 00:26.320 --> 00:32.560 And if I make a mistake, let's say I forget my line, but if that wasn't planned, I would have to 00:32.560 --> 00:37.600 restart or I would have to edit it in a way that I would have a lot of cuts so that that one cut where 00:37.600 --> 00:42.250 I edit that out would look normal because there's a lot of cuts and that's sometimes accomplished with 00:42.250 --> 00:43.100 multiple cameras. 00:43.100 --> 00:47.710 So first of all, you need multiple cameras sometimes or and also there's a lot of lighting. 00:47.710 --> 00:48.430 The background. 00:48.430 --> 00:49.510 I have to look professional. 00:49.510 --> 00:53.200 I have to be really on top of my game and I can't be that tired. 00:53.200 --> 00:57.700 Sometimes I am tired and then if I'm tired, I am able to film talking head. 00:57.910 --> 01:04.520 I am able to film screencast videos, but I'm not really able to film talking head videos because I 01:04.520 --> 01:12.080 have to be really like on if I have a pimple, like I can't really film like a big pimple, then I can't 01:12.080 --> 01:14.780 film talking head videos for like a day or two. 01:14.810 --> 01:15.350 It's true. 01:15.350 --> 01:21.680 Like, you know, and some people, even men, have makeup that they put on just like professional people 01:21.710 --> 01:24.350 on TV to cover blemishes. 01:24.350 --> 01:27.320 So it's easy to point a camera and shoot. 01:27.350 --> 01:34.340 It's really hard to get all the details right and every detail, including your body language, how 01:34.340 --> 01:41.990 you present the lack of parasite words and having a good flow and not forgetting your next word and 01:41.990 --> 01:43.490 not losing your train of thought. 01:43.520 --> 01:50.210 All those things have to come in one into one video because the mistakes, it's the when you make mistakes. 01:50.210 --> 01:54.740 This genre is a little bit unforgiving at times unless you do have that fancy editing. 01:54.740 --> 01:59.990 So you have to be very on present very well, or you're going to end up doing many takes. 01:59.990 --> 02:07.010 So sometimes for a video like this, I end up doing three, four, five, six, seven takes eight takes 02:07.010 --> 02:09.170 a lot of takes to get it even, right? 02:09.170 --> 02:14.030 So when you see me doing one and you think, Wow, Alex, not that great, yeah, I was even worse. 02:14.930 --> 02:22.670 So this genre is easy to start, hard to make perfect, but you have to ultimately perfect it because 02:22.670 --> 02:24.950 if you're going to use it because. 02:25.570 --> 02:28.930 The better it is, the more the better results. 02:28.930 --> 02:32.530 Your end product, the video, the better result it will get. 02:32.560 --> 02:34.090 No matter what you're trying to do with it. 02:34.090 --> 02:38.560 People will just engage more with the better video and every detail you get. 02:38.560 --> 02:39.160 Right. 02:39.190 --> 02:44.640 More engaging presentation, better lighting, nicer background, better, better. 02:44.650 --> 02:45.700 You see the lights behind me? 02:45.700 --> 02:53.760 There's a texture, like I'm actually using something like this to create that aura behind me, right? 02:53.770 --> 02:55.750 That light, you know? 02:55.750 --> 03:02.320 So there's a lot of stuff that goes into this kind of a video, and over time you'll get it right. 03:02.320 --> 03:04.240 But it is hard to perfect it. 03:04.240 --> 03:08.890 And you viewers, oh, my God, they see every mistake you make. 03:08.890 --> 03:09.730 For you. 03:09.730 --> 03:10.930 It's for me, too. 03:10.930 --> 03:12.580 For for us, it's the creators. 03:12.580 --> 03:17.410 It's hard to film it and even to get some quality. 03:17.410 --> 03:20.290 Every time we improve in quality, we think we did great. 03:20.410 --> 03:23.710 But the viewers, man, they still see all the mistakes we made. 03:23.710 --> 03:28.670 Like when I got my better background, better lighting, I was so excited and I showed it to my first 03:28.670 --> 03:33.110 friend and he's like, Well, the better lighting, there's a lot of light coming at me because I bought 03:33.110 --> 03:36.770 professional lights and it makes my face super pale. 03:36.770 --> 03:39.650 And so he noticed, Oh, you're pale now. 03:39.650 --> 03:42.560 And I noticed, Oh my God, I just spent a lot of money on lights. 03:42.590 --> 03:45.080 Now I'm a professional, more professional setup. 03:45.110 --> 03:46.160 It's amazing. 03:46.160 --> 03:46.490 So. 03:46.700 --> 03:50.660 And other people noticed the negative, so people always notice something negative. 03:50.690 --> 03:51.740 It never ends. 03:51.740 --> 03:55.640 But the more you improve the genre, the better it will do for you.