I like to pretend I'm shooting RU-vid videos while I'm driving, I go over some of the topics I want to cover. It works well, but it does hurt my Uber rating
To be honest you sound like a professional RU-vidr which means you improved massively. I think RU-vid has it's own sound compared to old media formats.
Can’t stand my own voice on video. I sound so different makes me self conscious. When I listen to myself I have to ask if it’s me speaking. What I here with my ears as I talk is not the same voice I hear when I hear a playback. It weird.
PresidentUSVI It’s because when you speak you’re hearing a combination of your head voice and a little of what’s coming out of your mouth. Your voice resonating in your head sounds different than what people actually hear. Singers deal with this when we record. It took me a long time to get used to what I actually sound like.
On my blogs I got rid of the "UH"s by thinking with my mouth CLOSED. I noticed that when I was searching my mind for words, I'd say "UH" everytime. Now I just pause with my mouth closed when trying to think of my next point. I hope this helps someone. :-)
I value your lesson and -amazed that you explained exactly why I naturally don’t have Ahs Ums - eventually this led me to teaching students and executives how to stop these unnecessary repeated sounds which are not proper words - another way is to practice substituting these sounds with proper words like ‘and’ ‘’also’ and many more - hope this helps too
Great tips for speaking on camera! I think a lot of it boils down to practise, practise, practise! The most important point I realised over the years, is to get started. It doesn't matter if it's just a baby step, but if we make sure we're taking tiny steps forward, we can be sure that we're improving!
*Appreciate your humility* to show that older video of yourself 🙏🏽 I released my 1st video and was embarrassed by how long it took me to get to the point! So thanks for the small confidence boost dude.
Dude, I checked your first video ''How To Write a Successful Resume In 2019'' and I think it is a great video. Why did you get embarrassed? All you need is good microphone.
Very interesting. What I would recommend is listening to good podcasts. It allows you to hear how people who talk form ideas and talk at the same time.
I found that the best way is to just practice talking in front of the camera and allow yourself complete freedom to play and experiment without holding anything back. I see too many people trying to conform to some type of ideal or copy some "confident people". I believe a better approach is to embrace your unique personality and get in touch with your natural, authentic way of expressing yourself. This will give you a solid foundation for enjoying creating all future videos and keep developing skills that will grow you as a person in all areas of life, no matter how successful you channel becomes.
You are hands down my favourite RU-vidr to learn basic (and advanced) principles in filmmaking and editing. To the point, practical and you cover things that everyone should know so well. Thank you SO much - keep it coming!
Great advice Daniel. The desire for perfection is always the killer for a lot of people. (And why I haven't had the courage to publish anything!). It's a process a d great to see how much you have grown!
Bro I am going down the rabbit hole of RU-vid university as I’m trying to level up our RU-vid channels. Thank you for that game about the “power box”. I noticed in my presentation type videos on my other channel that when I do start thinking about my head movements that’s when I start stumbling and rambling. Thank you so much for the insight. Savings this on my personal playlist. Will definitely use it going forward.
"If you're talking like this with your hands the whole time it's going to be difficult for people to focus on what you're saying", then your camera loses focus to emphasize the point. That's a well-trained camera you have there!
This was so helpful. When I first started I hated my voice so I started making the speed of my video faster to sound “more upbeat”. Now looking back, I cringe watching those early edits!!! End of story practice makes perfect and don’t be so hard on yourself
This video helped a ton. I used to umm and uhh so much it’s hard to watch after I record it. Glad you mention ending on a down cause I didn’t realize I was always ending on ups. This really helped me improve my vlogging
Damn really good advice here. If I may say so, yes you have come a long, long, long way since your two year anniversary. Today’s RU-vid audience probably would have “no soup for you, NEXT’ED” you 😂. Inflection and eye contact huge points as well. Notes definitely help, I have to fully prepare because I don’t personally like jump cuts (I will cover them if I can’t get around them). I try to speak in full sentences as well. I’ll do a second third or 10th take if I don’t like how it sounds so listening to what you are saying is also helpful. Eye contact, the lens is a cold dead soulless beast, behind it are engaged viewers, so it makes looking down the barrel and keeping it there challenging, but break away too much from it (especially if you have a rear facing monitor to look at yourself in) is super distracting and inadvertently disengages the audience. Agreed practice helps, impossible to get good without experience. Great video man, the hand gestures “power box” is new to me, good to know I can utilize that. Power BOX GO!
Thank You Daniel for helping us little folk out here trying to figure out Do's and Don'ts in growing our channel. Keeping it real is one of your gifts that has attracted many of us to follow you each week. Peace
Hey Daniel I started out like a piece of animated cardboard when first I tried speaking on camera. 2 years on and I am still struggling with remembering what I am supposed to be talking about and usually have my mouth go dry/choke on saliva or trip over my words. Result is up to 20+ takes before I get it right. What helped me was to script my words and narrate with them if off camera or use a teleprompter on camera. Literally overnight I was able to relax and speak more confidently without running out of voice. On camera if I need to break eye contact I will tell the audience what I am about to do so they understand. ex. "just give me a moment and I will put this item safely aside" or " I will just need to look at my notes" I tend to use hand gestures as well but had never heard of the power box area. Thanks for making me aware of it.
Aaaaand this is why this channel has grown so much, I think I have gotten so much value out of it than all other channels combined. Don't be mad at Daniel for getting huge on youtube, learn to add value to your audience. Thanks again man for all you do!
couldn't agree more with all these tips, they're great. I just started doing this stuff and wow, it's an art. Seasoned youtubers like yourself make it look easy but it's anything but...the "um's" are the hardest to not do.
Check out that sunset outside at 5:19. You should've be out shooting that. Liked the tips. And kudos for showing us where you came from two years ago. Rome wasn't built in a day.
Great, simple video. I'm a trained actor, and even trying to make RU-vid videos I have to learn how to interact with the camera. Every medium is different. Nice way to summarize the approach, thanks for making it!
I REALLY like this video. It made me re-examine how I speak on camera. But the real question is...how do I change someone's eye color in Final Cut Pro X?!? Can we actually do that?!
Great vid man. No idea if this is useful for anyone, but there's a small tip I got (maybe from NLP) where the "past" is the audiences left and the "future" is the audiences right. So if you're saying "I used to be like this" (gesture to your right, audience left) "but now I learnt to do this" (gesture to you're left, audience right). The theory is this will be congruent with typical left to right in communication, and I've found it does really work and I notice the reaction is more buyin/engagement. e.g. when I'm delivering training I go to the audience left to 'anchor' an idea then I move to audience right, when I'm asking them to consider taking an action etc.
Thank you for posting this. It is encouraging to see.. I’ve been beating myself up over my biggest weakness which is talking on camera. I’ve watched so many of your videos and just assumed you were a natural from day 1. Thank you for being transparent
Deb Foley you just have to continue to make videos and you’ll start getting better at it. There’s going to come a point when you start to adapt and become comfortable like the camera isn’t even there
Great video 👌 I always respected the way you treat your audience by saying everything clearly and concisely, defiantly a skill I need to pick up and work on. Kudos for having the balls to show a video from 2 years ago! You made good progress 🙏
The whole talking to a camera thing is something that you have to grow into a lot and You had some great tips in there to make it go quicker, Thanks! My biggest hurdle is to speak English as a native Swedish speaker and i stumble on the words A LOT. I always tend to forget that nobody is going to see the result until you post it... Weird...
The you from 2 years ago is too much like me that I actually started cringing lmao, its impressive how much you improved. Also the ending on the down thing is really important especially when editing because jump cuts flow so much more smoothly!
Your 2 years ago video is me right now. I'm doing 30-day RU-vid Challenge and I've posted videos for 9 days so far. I'm comfortable in front of the camera now but my intonation still bad. I also have bad grammar. It's not that bad in real life.
I definitely talk in front of the camera like you did two years ago lol. I’ve gotten better though. What makes me feel better about being on camera, is remembering that I can always edit it out.
I actually liked the first video. It's easy to understand, you don't look nervous. It's just less professional. I wish I could reach that level... There is actually a lot of things to think about. Not only the text and the sound of the voice. For me the bottleneck right now is the face expression. I still have a lot of things to improve. Anyways, very good video! Thanks for useful content.
OMG. I just started a channel and I sound exactly like you did when you started. For some reason I thought it is to certain extent natural (inborn) to have different speech tempo and clarity of the message, but now I see light in the end of a tunnel. So there is a lot of space for my improvement. Great suggestions, thanks!
Great video dan the man! I can defo relate to a lot of these for my own channel. The best advice for me is just to be myself and not worry about anything else. Then it just flows naturally 🙏🏽😊
I am about to launch into the world of RU-vid but suffer from perfectionism. Seeing the difference between this video and your early video helps me to not get hung up on getting started and to just keep practicing. You sound great :) Thanks Daniel!
Wow I’m so inspired by you. You’re the most amazing photography role model. You’ve inspired me to start my own RU-vid channel to document my journey as a photographer.
This is such an important topic! I really struggle with the rambling when speaking to the camera, but I have noticed an improvement over the past two years. I'll definitely keep your points in mind when recording the next video - thanks for the tips Daniel :)
This is great advice for those students starting their first fully online semester this week. Many college level classes are requiring video responses to keep us students engaged with each other. Thanks for the tips!
Man Daniel I am dealing with this now trying to create video content to help out my fellow producers due to this virus spreading I have time to create. I continuously get frustrated with myself with everything that you stated in this video. With practice, I know I will get better and your content really helps me out!!! Thank you!!!! 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
So uncanny you just created this video! I was just watching your videos closely a few days ago to observe how you confidently speak to the camera! Everything you have spoken about here is exactly what I had observed! Keep up the awesome work! 😃👍
Good shit bro, keep up tge straight to the point style of video, i feel i speak on behalf of everyone when saying there are so many youtubers who waste so much time being repetative and rambling on just to make up time, keep it up
New to RU-vid and this is my biggest learning area. I also suffer from urms & erms but i agree, its usually when i don't fully understand the topic i am discussing.
