How To Podcast

Planning Your Video - part 2

Continued from Planning Your Video (part 1)..

A sample video blog format may look like this:

Lead in music, intro screen
Welcome
Announcements
Main Content
More Announcements
Lead out music, credits screen

This is a very basic format for your production, and your specific video may have additional items - or completely different items depending on the type of video that you are producing. It helps, at this point, to determine how long your video will be. As with podcasts, thirty minutes to an hour is a good length. Longer videos may be harder to produce, take longer to upload, and may actually be too long for your audience. Shorter videos won't give you enough time to get your point across. Choose a video length, and assign a time limit for each item of your format.

Remember that 150 to 160 words can be spoken, on average, per minute. With this in mind, you are ready to start writing your content - or your outline. If you feel that you will be able to speak more naturally, stay focused on your topic, and get your point across in a logical fashion with the use of a well defined outline, as opposed to a script, go with that.

If not, you will need to write a script. You can use a teleprompter for this, as long as your computer is close enough to where you are shooting your video for you to see the teleprompter. However, you never want to sound like you are reading a script. Write a five minute outline, and a five minute script, and shoot a practice video of each one to determine how you do best at delivering your content.

The same concepts apply here as they do for planning podcast content. Be sure to refer to that section of this ebook for that information. Remember that there are ideas out there everywhere. But you will need to determine how often you plan to post to your video blog, so that you can better determine what content, and how much content should go into each video. It is also at this point that you will create or gather any visuals that you plan to use. This could be a variety of props or items, depending again on your niche and your topic. For example, if you are shooting a video that teaches people how to groom a poodle, you will need a poodle - preferably one that actually needs grooming, and all of the tools that are needed for grooming the poodle. You aren't quite ready to turn the camera on yet.. there are still a few more issues that you need to work out before you say 'lights, camera - ACTION.'

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