Are you camera shy? Want to create videos for your business anyway? Learn how to get confident creating videos (even when you’re camera shy). 

Get confident creating videos (even when you’re camera shy)

So you want to learn how to be confident on camera?

Want to know how you should frame yourself when filming your videos? Here’s how to film yourself for your YouTube videos or other videos meant for social media.

If you’re new to filming, you might not think about how you should be framed when you’re filming your videos.

Actually, this video is going to be really short because you only need to know how to frame yourself for YouTube or for other social media.

In this week’s video we’re going to learn how to frame yourself in your videos. Don’t worry, I’m not going to make this complicated. It’s not like we’re filming a movie with multiple characters and different scenery.

How to frame yourself when filming

So we’re going over simple camera compositions. It’s sort of like photography, but I don’t know if they use the same terminology as in filming.

Distance

The first thing we’re going to talk about is distance. First let me show you a long shot. This has the subject faraway in the footage.

If you’re filming videos for YouTube or social media, you never want to have a long shot, unless it’s B-roll footage.

The reason for this is because you’re here to have more of a conversation with your viewers. For example, here I am having a one on one conversation with you. It’s sort of like talking to your friends.

If you’re having an important conversation, you’re not going to be way across the hall, the field, or a restaurant having a conversation. You’re going to be talking face to face, unless you’re yelling across your house to your family. It’s sorta rude, but acceptable.

Are you creating videos for your business, but they’re looking kind of boring? Well one way you can make your videos more engaging is to use B-Roll footage.

Sometimes it can get a little boring watching someone talk on and on about a subject. It sort of feels like watching a lecture sometimes.

Today, I’m going to talk about B-roll footage and how it can help entrepreneurs make their videos more engaging.

So, what’s B-roll footage. It’s basically the images you see that’s not the main image. So while I’m talking, I could cut away to or switch to another image, but you still see my voice.

Usually the image or footage has something to do what I’m talking about. So right now, I just cut away to another footage, but use still hear my voice talking, but you don’t see me.

That’s B-roll footage.