- I'm gonna show you a handful
of ways to make videos
that get views on YouTube without showing your face.
So you do not have to be on camera.
And even if you're somebody that likes to be on camera,
some of the things that I'm gonna be sharing
in this video can also help you make your content faster,
as well as just helping you make
some cool additional footage
that you can add to your videos.
How we're gonna do this is I'm going to share with you
the idea for the faceless video
and then I'm going to give a quick explanation
of how you actually put it together
and we're starting right now.
The first one is screen recording,
for this I use software called Camtasia
to record the screen
while I'm doing something.
This is great for gamers,
tutorial channels and of course,
a fantastic way to add additional footage
to your videos.
For this once Camtasia is installed,
all you have to do is go into the software,
click record screen, and do your thing.
Once you're finished with the recording,
you can also easily edit the video in Camtasia as well,
and save it to use in your YouTube videos.
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and just see exactly how it records the screen
and just brainstorm on all the different things
that you can do with it.
Next is Point Of View or POV Content.
People get really creative with this one.
You can find some really cool examples
of this from Moto Vloggers, Bike Channels,
Walk Around Vloggers and all types of other content.
Using the Point of View Shot is also good
for adding unique looking footage to your content
if your face is in it or not and to do this,
all you have to do is hold your camera
or show what you're seeing as you do your thing.
You can level it up by getting a mouth mount.
Yes, you heard me correctly,
a mouth mount for your phone or GoPro
and then you can see both of your hands if you want.
A really cool use of this type of shot is from a channel
called You Suck At Cooking, which is hilarious by the way
and you should check it out if you haven't yet,
but he mixes the point of view method
with our next technique
which is the Overhead Shot.
You see this Overhead Shot in all types of content
on boxing videos, ASMR videos, review videos,
home repair, crafting the list goes on
and on and on and on for the Overhead Shot
but the Overhead Shot is easily achieved
by mounting your camera or phone to the table,
using a mounting arm,
or simply putting your tripod on the table
that you're working on and pointing it downward.
There's also a lot of different contraptions
to help you do the same thing all over the internet.
So you'll have tons of solutions.
Next is Over the Shoulder.
If you're doing any type of tutorial
or instructional content shooting Over your Shoulder,
so you add the person element to your videos,
but you still don't see your face is a great way
to level up your content.
Combine this with the screen recording idea
I mentioned earlier,
and you'll have some really cool looking content.
To set this one up, position your camera,
where it's focused on the screen,
but you see the back of yourself like you're seeing
on your screen right now.
Of course when you're doing this one,
you don't want to just completely fill the frame
with your body and see a little bit of the screen
you wanna make sure that you're showing enough
of the screen and actually focusing
on the screen so that you're
a little bit blurred out if possible
and all of the attention is actually on the screen,
which makes it also really easy to transition back
and forth as well.
The next way to make videos without showing your face
is Stock Footage with Narration.
For this one, you don't have to show your face
but you would need to speak.
All you do is record the audio portion
of your video and then find Stock Footage
to match the things that you're talking about.
This type of content is extremely easy to make,
which means that it requires a very low amount of effort
and a very low amount of skill.
But you can see this concept illustrated
with this whole entire section here
that I'm talking about because I did
this exact thing right here in this video.
Next on the list is Slideshows.
Now a Sideshows you're gonna need
a little bit more skills with this one
a little bit more effort's gonna be involved because
of course you're gonna have to actually build out
the slides that you're gonna be showing on your screen.
Essentially, what it is that you're doing
with the slideshow is
you're putting together a presentation,
and then as you're going through that presentation
you're changing the slides, then in that case,
you would have the screen recording,
you'd be using Camtasia for that
and it's recording what it is that you're seeing
on your screen as you're actually narrating
through the slides
just like if you were giving a presentation.
This one of course is best suited for people
that have a little bit of experience with using slides,
or if you are just somebody that is like, hey,
let me give slides a shot
then this would also be a great fit for you.
But in addition to that,
another really cool thing about the slide option
is that you can also build in some animations to it as well.
And speaking of animations,
that brings us to our next option,
which is Animations
or Doodle videos or Scribble Videos,
whatever it is that you wanna call them,
both of these are extremely effective
at keeping people watching,
just because there's so much changing on the screen
and as long as you're talking about something
that's interesting and you're narrating
in an interesting way,
people will stick around and watch
that type of content a lot.
People love that type of content.
The downside of these types of videos
is that there is a lot more skill involved.
So if you're somebody that's just getting started,
that might be a much bigger hill than you're willing
to climb at this point in time and because of that,
you might want to default on some of the things
that we talked about earlier.
Another way that you can make your videos
without showing you on camera is of course,
if you have somebody else that you wanna record,
or if you have a pet that you can highlight,
or maybe a whole group of pets,
or maybe an entire house full of pets,
then you are covered in terms of things
that you can make videos about
or things that you can focus on
when you're making videos without you having
to actually be on camera.
And if you've got a cute pet,
it's also a great way to highlight
that adorable pet as well.
This is my pet popcorn, by the way.
Are you tired?
Another type of video that you can make
without showing your face
is if you are musically inclined and you're trying
to share your music with the world, then in that case,
of course you can make that type of content as well
but instead of showing your face,
you can just show the guitar that you're playing
or the keyboard that you're playing,
or the drum pad that you're hammering on.
Any of those things are also a great way
to share what it is that you're doing,
but also make it visually interesting as well
especially if you add some cool lighting to it and,
just kind of create a vibe with the video
that you're creating.
For this one,
all you would need to do is take your camera
or your phone camera and just set it
in ways to where it makes the shot
look a little bit interesting and just record
while you're doing your thing.
Now look,
if you're putting all of this effort
and energy into creating your content,
the last thing you want is for YouTube
to delete your channel, right?
So because of that,
I actually have a video sharing with you,
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