How to create great video content from home?

Making videos from home is easier than ever, but making good videos is a different story. Marketers & content creators have discovered that putting an idea in a video is one of the most effective ways to share it from wherever they are located.

Todays portable technology enable even inexperienced videographers to easily create and distribute content on platforms such as #YouTube, but there's a lot more that goes into producing professional-quality #videos.

#1 Begin with a strategy

Making videos from home is easier than ever, but making good videos is a different story.

Before you even turn on your camera or plug in your microphone, video production begins. Begin by creating an outline of the topics you want to cover in your video. Planning your shoots from start to finish will not only help you get the results you want, but will also save you a lot of time editing later.

#2 Choosing your shot - and setting it up

\ Think like a producer when shooting video content at home.

If you're #shooting a music video, commercial, or #short_film, or even a content for #YouTube you'll have a lot more leeway in planning your entire video production from start to finish. Using little or no shadow creates a more open and direct vibe, which is usually preferable for business and marketing videos. Create your own storyboard with illustrations of your scenes in sequence to do it like the pros. This will allow you to visualize your final footage and outline the shots you want to include.

#3 Learn to speak on camera

Fortunately, speaking on camera may be done effectively by paying attention to a few basic guidelines:

“Be original, show off your style, and tell your story.”

1. Keep your eye (or "lens") contact.

A video's eye contact can make or break it. Any facial expression and emotion will be visible to the audience if you are framed in a medium to close-up shot so when you're speaking on camera, you should be looking at the camera—or directly into it. Presenting in from of a camera can feel like an artificial self-conscious experience.

2. Pretend you're speaking to someone

It takes effort to speak well on video, and the first step is to make it clear. Many famous YouTube personalities begin their videos with an upbeat, "Hey guys!" as if 20 individuals are all watching it together. When speaking in an interview or addressing the camera, pretend you're speaking with someone you know. Address the camera as if it were a person, emote as if it were a person, and act as if you're attempting to connect with that person through the words you're speaking. The viewer is looking for that connection. Speaking to one person on camera will make people feel more engaged, as if you're speaking to them as a friend rather than a stranger on the Internet.

3. Experiment with speaking in front of a camera - creating self confidence

Simply practice speaking to the camera. Having the opportunity to do this a number of times will provide you with some basic experience and level of comfort. When recording video if you lose your place, practicing will help you get back on track. It will cement the various parts of your speech in your mind so that if you forget a section or point, you can use what you've practiced to refresh your memory.

4. Mind your Posture - power posing

Power posing is a contentious self-improvement technique or "life hack" in which people stand in a posture they mentally associate with being powerful in the hope of feeling and acting more assertively. Maintaining positive body language, such as keeping your shoulders relaxed and your back straight, will help you come across as more authoritative, giving your words more perceived value.

#4 Get set on Simple Editing Techniques

As an editor, you can truly demonstrate your creativity. The most basic edit of them is a direct cut between shots, with the next shot beginning where the previous one ends, then adding transitions keeping in mind to change visuals every 4-5 seconds