Colin & Samir – YouTube Storytelling: How To Make Videos that People Share

Wanna learn how to find your audience and get people to share your videos?

Colin and Samir have developed a proven method for making videos that people care about. Whether you’re shooting a doc or a Youtube video, this class is going to give you the skills and resources to tell a compelling–and potentially viral–story. Learn to write a hit script, storyboard your ideas, and give your videos purpose. This is everything you should do before you turn your camera on.

What You’ll Learn In YouTube Storytelling

1. Intro – Who We Are and Why You’re Here

Who are Colin and Samir? To kick it off, you’ll meet your instructors and learn why your concept for a video is paramount. You can’t steer a bike that isn’t moving; the same applies to creativity. Your instructors will take you through creative exercise to get your juices flowing. Brainstorm incoming.

2. The Audience

Who’s your audience and why should they care about your work? Once you know who your audience is, it’s time to refine the picture. In this segment, Colin and Samir lead you through exercising emotions and identities.

3. The Ideas

You’ll learn how to develop an idea with drive. Learn how to craft an award-winning concept that will carry your video to success. Discovering your “why” is what gives your video purpose.

4. Storytelling 101

Colin and Samir lay out the core tenants of storytelling in a 3-act structure. What makes a good story? Learn to write and record an impactful script, and workshop it until it’s perfect.

5. Pressing Publish

Colin and Samir cover the “grassroots approach” to finding your audience, and how to use the feedback loop of the film, edit, upload, repeat cycle.

6. Wrap Up

Colin and Samir run through their story and their past mistakes, so you don’t have to make them. Now, go make something awesome.

7. BONUS SECTION: Breaking Down the Breakdown

In this bonus section (including 5 additional episodes), Colin & Samir lay out the process from start to finish of making a YouTube video for their own page. Peek behind the scenes and see how the masters do it.