Name: How do I make videos?
Uploaded: 2018-12-16T13:59:15.000Z
Duration: 4 min 22 s
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Modal verbs - A2

Wait, I'm just gonna stop you right there

I am NOT gonna answer another of your questions on YouTube

Hear me out. There are several reasons why.

First of all, I'm not a smashing-it YouTuber myself

I'm still climbing up the ladders, kind of halfway there

So I don't kind of feel like in the right place to give you advice on this

They're just getting darker and darker every single day

But that I'll put aside the main reason why I am NOT gonna talk about making videos to anyone

anymore is simply because I've done it so many times already

Sitting down with people over dinner, replying personal messages, getting back to email

getting into detail on how to set up your channel...

choose your microphone, camera, your lighting settings, how to set the composition, etc, etc

And it's not that I mind spending my time on this

Actually I love sharing. I love talking about this.

What bothers me is like out of the 10 or 20 people that I've got back to on these questions...

On the top of my head, like only one person actually started his own channel

So for the 9 rest or the 19 rest that haven't

So if you want to start a channel, start a channel.

Couldn't think of another phrase to phrase it.

I love working with doers. They turn ideas into entities.

Cuz you know they're gonna turn this conversation that we're having now into something real before the next time we meet

I like to think of my college martial arts coach.

Yeah, I've learned a little bit of Kung fu myself

He's this really cool and straight guy with a ponytail looks like ancient Chinese

he teaches us the basics and then he makes his practice for hours

Whenever I ask him a question, he asks me back

He makes you practice repeatedly countless times

And a lot of times, along the way you just figure it out yourself

So tell me what are you gonna do about it now

After all that practice, he gives you this tiny little tip that makes you all of a sudden realize what you've been missing out all along

And if it weren't for all that practice, we wouldn't have understood the significance and the difference of these tiny little details

He made us earn them so that we would never forget

Today's video is not talking about being or not being a YouTuber

It's about taking action, putting things into practice

You can only take away as much effort you put into it

If you sit down with me, we talk about how to set up your camera, your lightings, the composition, how to make your thumbnail stand out, etc.

You wouldn't understand to the fullest 'cos you haven't got your hands on it yourself yet

If I gave you an amount of ten, you'd probably take away like four or five or even less

The more you've done it yourself, the more you'd understand

And I guess that's probably why MBA programs in the States require that you have a three to five year work experience before you apply

So now when somebody asks me advice on how to start a channel I simply give them the basics

Go get a Googla account. It's tied in with your YouTube account

Go to youtube settings and click on "create a new channel"

Change your profile, your photo, your banner, and the next thing...

Make five videos before the next time we meet

You got to put in your effort before you start to really learn something

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How do I make videos?

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