improvement pill here many of you have asked me about the actual
behind-the-scenes process that i have for making these sorts of
videos so today i've decided to pull back the curtain and show you
exactly what i do now the very first step for my video creating process
is to come up with the idea and there are basically four places that i turn to
for this the first is from reading when i'm
reading nonfiction books i will often come across what i like to call
an aha moment basically when something clicks in my head and i understand a
concept from a new point of view if the aha moment is powerful enough if
it's something that i feel like people really ought to know
then i will take it flesh it out and make it into a video
the second source of my ideas is during my conversations with others
occasionally when i'm doing coaching calls speaking with others in my discord
server or even when i'm talking to friends i'll
find myself explaining a concept or answering a question in a new way that
i've never done before and if this explanation is really good
i'll make a note of it in my bullet journal which often ends up becoming a
video the third source of my ideas is when i
ask you guys the viewers of this channel for your
feedback every once in a while i'll make a post on my community tab
asking you guys about the biggest problems you are facing or what
questions you have for me and i'll take the top comments there
and make them into videos and finally the most
random but also one of the most common sources of ideas
is when i'm showering see the thing is when you shower
your brain waves literally change and this brings you into a state that is
ideal for introspection and creativity so oftentimes when i'm
short on ideas i will just take an extremely long shower and wait
and wait until an idea pops into my head and when that happens i'll run to my
bullet journal still dripping wet and i'll jot it down
now after coming up with an idea the next step for me is to create the
outline for the script i like creating an outline first because
for educational videos like this you need to make sure that the flow of
your thoughts makes sense there needs to be a sequential order to things
so i start by thinking about all the sections that i need for the video
sort of like figuring out the table of contents before you write a book
now it's very important to note that i don't write much when i do the outline i
usually just jot down one or two sentences for each
of the sections just enough so that when i come back to
start fleshing out my thoughts for each of the sections i'll know what i was
thinking about i also use lines to separate each of
these sections to help keep my thoughts organized
the moment i finish the outline i will set the entire project aside and pat
myself on the back for a job well done and i will not touch it again until i've
slept on it for at least one night see i believe that sleeping
between sessions helps improve the quality of your writing
personally i found that my best work is done in the mornings when i've had a
good full night of sleep so i try my best to write when i'm in that state of
mind after i slept on the outline for at
least a day i will start working on the first draft for the script
i tried to imagine that i'm explaining the topic to someone in real life i'll
look at what i've written down for each section and try to flesh it out as much
as possible opening my mind and simply letting all
the words in my head pour out non-stop without judgment i do this
until i reach the end of the word document now it's important to note that
i limit my writing to just two to three hours a day
see i've noticed that the quality of what comes out of my head decreases
drastically after about three hours so i try to do
most of my writing in the mornings and i'll save the more brain dead tasks
like responding to emails for the afternoon because they don't require
nearly as much mental clarity now i do not revise my writing at all
during this step once i'm done with the first draft i'll either switch to
another project or wait until the next day before i even
attempt to edit it i do this because i want to
be able to clear my mind before reading the script out loud
this allows me to spot the parts that wouldn't make sense to the listener
which i'll end up cutting i found that if i attempt to do both at the same time
if i try to write and edit in the same session
my efficiency drops drastically because i'm switching back and forth between two
totally different ways of thinking one is focused on creating and letting all
my thoughts flow out while the other is all about listening
carefully and figuring out which thoughts to cut
once i've revised the script i'll set it aside and work on another project
again because i want to sleep on the entire thing
before finalizing it when i wake up the next day i'll start finalizing the draft
i'll read the script out loud again but this time i'll focus on the more
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now back to the topic at hand once i've gone over the script multiple
times and i'm happy with how it sounds i will record it
now i'm actually pretty picky when it comes to recording audio
i will redo lines obsessively until the tone
and execution sound just right which means that for a video like this one
which is probably going to be around like
8 to 10 minutes long i'll end up with like 40 minutes of raw audio that needs
to be cleaned up editing the audio is something that i
used to do myself it used to take anywhere from two to four hours and i
really did not like it but nowadays i outsource this task
to an audio engineer who is far more experienced and who actually enjoys
working with audio this idea of outsourcing
is something that you should really keep in mind when it comes to running a
business you should not be trying to do
everything by yourself because quite honestly there's someone out there
who can do a better job than you who also enjoys it more and doing so
will save you so much time while the audio is being
edited by the engineer i'll send the finalized script to one of the artists
that i have on my team i've managed to recruit artists from all
over the world this is why almost all of my videos have a different style because
different people are working on each one and just a fun fact the reason why i
include a sponsor in almost every single video
is because i pay my artist more than triple what some of my competition
on youtube is paying one of my artists from california even told me that my
rate is 50 percent higher than what major studios like cartoon network
pay it can cost me anywhere from 500 to 1
500 per video just for the animation which is why if you want to help support
the channel the best thing to do is to check out our sponsors
many of them have free trials and if you sign up for those free trials they will
want to work with us again this way our artists continue to eat
well and you guys will continue to get high quality content for free
anyways once the artist receives the script they'll draft the storyboard
which is like a sketch of how each scene will play out
then we jump on the phone and go over it together once all the changes have been
made i'll send them the finalized audio and
they will start finalizing all of the scenes
this is a process that takes up to 3 weeks to complete i forgot to mention
that while the video is being finalized i'm thinking about the thumbnail for the
video see the thumbnail actually plays a vital
role in the success of a video so i'll often get multiple versions done
you might have noticed this before i often change the thumbnail and title for
some of our videos if a video isn't performing that well
i'll try my best to save it because i've invested so much time
and money making the video so i don't want it to go to waste
once the video and thumbnail are ready i upload the video onto youtube
i hang out for a couple of hours responding to comments and the rest
is history it's also important to note that i track all of these steps
using my bullet journal which has been the most life-changing habit that i've
built in a long time if you want to learn more about how this
habit works you can check out my video on the topic
in the description box below and that's it this is how i make my videos i hope
you enjoy this episode and besides that guys stay tuned