Truths Flashcards
(7 cards)
What’s the first truth about being confident on camera?
It’s a skill
being on camera is a muscle, you can train.
if it’s a skill, that means…
- no matter how horrible you are
- no matter how terrified you are about being on camera
- you can always get better
- a skill is something you can learn, you can improve
- you have to put in the reps
- it doesn’t require talent, regardless of talent, you can put in the reps and get better at this
- work so hard you make talent a variable that doesn’t matter on the longer timeline
- it’s about reputation, honing the skill that you get better
- getting better every single video
- cannot compare your first video to someone else’s 500 video, they developed the skill to get there
- this is a skill, you are going to develop it and get better at it
What’s the second truth about being confident on camera?
You probably suck.
But that’s okay…
- this is a skill you can get better at
- don’t judge yourself too hard
- you’re taking the right steps to get better at this
- sooner you accept, you’re not that good at camera
- all favorite Youtube and content creators, sucked
- it’s the process you have to go through to get to where you want to be
- go to favorite creators on Youtube, sort videos to watch the oldest videos first, you can see videos from 10 years ago, 10 years ago they SUCKED
- they went through process, made videos, published them, every video they got better, now 1 year, 10 years later they’re getting better
What’s the third truth about being confident on camera?
Recording yourself is pretty f*cking weird
- He’s in a studio, by himself, talking to a camera
- you’re by yourself, never before in history of time, in position to talk by yourself
- talking by yourself into a camera for hours, it’s weird
- you get used to it
- accept that it’s weird, it’s part of the game
- we’re social creatures, we are meant to talk to others
- some people imagine they’re talking to a human, a friend
- talking by yourself in a room, it’s fine, it’s a new age
- talk by yourself in a camera, it doesn’t matter it’s weird
- in past even, there were studio crews and other people
- just past 10 years we got access to affordable home studios, affordable cameras, most content creators are solo creators
What’s the fourth truth about being confident on camera?
You can fake it through editing.
Remove all the problems, re-takes, mistakes and come off as super coherent and amazing.
- you watch someone on youtube think they can talk forever, flow of ideas so good, so coherent
- you don’t notice or see their actual raw footage, see how many mistakes they actually made
- how many things they cut out, how many takes they did, how many times they re-recorded
- editing is magic, you can remove all those problems, put them together one after the other in a timeline, and all of a sudden it looks amazing
- in reality never did a one take of something super coherent, amazing
- if you watched the actual footage, you’d think not good on camera, the power of editing (can select best take, best sentence, etc)
Ex. THIS IS SO TRUE | Natural Jackson
- he is fed one line at a time, repeats it, etc
- he makes mistakes, re-records things
- in editing, they edit it all out so it looks like a coherent peice
- final result, looks super coherent, looks amazing
What’s the fifth truth about being confident on camera?
When you sit down in front of the camera, and press record, your mind might go blank
- you have to get used to it
- something magical happens when you press record
- feels like something changes, without pressing record can talk for hours
- when you press record, feels like something changes
- it’s a little bit of extra pressure, it’s you and the camera
- at end of day, there isn’t any real pressure, if you don’t deliver a good take, press record and deliver another one
- you have infinite storage, can always do another take and another take, no real pressure
- don’t think about thousands of people watching it, reframe it
- if you don’t like the video, delivery wasn’t good, stop camera, press record again, and do another take
What’s the sixth truth about being confident on camera?
Expose yourself more and more
- exposure therapy
- when afraid of something, expose yourself a little more and a little more until you don’t think it’s a big deal anymore
- when you go on stage first time, all lights pointing on you, it feels high pressure
- you do it once, twice, fifty times, eventually you get used to it and it doesn’t bother you
- it’s fine if you’re nervous, it bothers you, that’s fine, doesn’t matter, keep exposing yourself to this environment and you’ll get better at it
What’s the seventh truth about being confident on camera?
Most people don’t care
- afraid of people going to judge you (friends, coworkers, etc)
- most will support you, deep down they wish they could be on camera as well
- they wish they could start a channel, be on camera, etc.
- your friends WILL support you more than you imagine
- there will be 100% people who judge you, some family/friends/coworkers/random people you don’t know
- ## if your friends are judging you, thinking “who do you think you are,” do they think they really have something important to say, FUCK them, those aren’t your real friends, they’d push you to be better
