Speaker 1: Let's say you want to teach online. How do you transfer your knowledge from your brain to your student's brain in the most effective way? Now, there are several teaching styles you can choose from. I've compiled the nine most popular lecture recording styles for you, and then you can choose which one suits your needs the best. Let's do it. Let's start with the talking head. The talking head is the simplest way to teach. All you need is a head that is talking. And the rest of your body, obviously. We got Ramit Sethi. He teaches business, small businesses, how to grow and become successful and make billions and zillions. And in here, you can see all he's doing is talking to a camera with a white background. That's it. So simple. We got David Lee, who's got millions of followers on YouTube. I really like the minimalistic style. That means that there is very little to look at. I mean, it's more complex than Ramit Sethi because he's got a table and he's got a couple of neon lights on the background. But that's it. And then he usually talks about gadgets, technology, phones, computers. It's got a very soothing and common and minimalistic way of expressing himself. Very good example of a talking head and video style. We got Thomas Frank. Thomas Frank has been teaching productivity for many years on YouTube. And this would be what I would say, kind of like one of the top examples of high production value of a talking head type of video. So the lighting is very cinematic. The decoration, it's very thought out. There is props. The way he's dressing, it looks very professional. So when you're starting out, you probably don't want to go or cannot afford to get all the equipment and the right setting to do this. But if you want to strive for something that looks really good, Thomas Frank and his videos lately, obviously when he started, like many YouTubers and online teachers, they didn't have the experience, capability or budget to teach with this level. But it's a good example to look at. We got somebody who has become extremely popular on YouTube. He teaches science and mathematics and a little bit of everything combined in a very unique and interesting way. His name is Michael Stevens from Vsauce with millions of followers on YouTube. And he is an expert of the talking head. He mixes it with other devices like text and motion graphics. But most of the time, it's just him talking and reading of a script. Of a bullet point paper. And looking at the camera, very, very simplistic, very little production value. But extremely effective and engaging teacher. Then we got somebody that I would consider also extremely engaging. But I want to show Lindy Beige. Because this is an example of a dude who looks a little bit like me. He's disheveled. His background is not really professional looking. But I want to show you this. But I want to show you this. But I want to show you this. But who cares? And now this guy has over a million subscribers. So this is an example of somebody that has not a lot of production value in his videos. He's shooting with what looks not a very expensive camera with very plain lighting. And he really has not really upped his game in terms of production value. Even when he's become extremely popular on YouTube. And this is just an example of you don't need a lot of expensive equipment to reach a huge audience. Of course, it looks better for your branding. Or whatever. But it's really about your ability to teach. To be engaging. Kudos to Lindy. Because although his videos don't look the best. And he is disheveled. And extremely funny. And his videos are long. They're between 15 minutes to 45 minutes long. Where he's teaching history. Something that you would never think. Or, you know, warfare. He talks about weapons and martial arts. A great example of a talking head teaching style. Now, the second style is talking head plus something. Plus a presentation device. Presentation device. Most popular one would be a blackboard. This is how most teachers originally taught. With some chalkboard on a blackboard. And we have here Chris Hadfield. Who recorded a masterclass at masterclass.com. Where he teaches space exploration. And highly recommend his class, by the way. I think he's not just an amazing human being. After flying and commanding the International Space Station. Fellow Canadian. We got. Probably one of the best physics teachers in history. Richard Feynman. A physicist himself. And this is a very old video. That's why it's so blurry. But he's using a blackboard as well. We got another very famous physics teacher. Who recorded a lot of his lectures. At University. Walter Lewin. And he's very old right now. He's still alive. One of the best teachers out there. And he, his main teaching device was a blackboard as well. Now we got somebody like Brendan Bouchard. He's using a paper easel. So we're moving. We're using different technology here. Technology. If you can call technology a paper easel. And he's teaching us how to build a multimillion dollar expert empire. So very engaging teacher using a different teaching device. Paper easel. We got also here Derek Mueller from Veritation. One of my favorite science channels. By the way, I'm using examples of people that I think they're great teachers. They have a huge audience and they're just interesting people to watch. And they use different teaching devices. In this case, in this video, he's using a paper easel as well. We got Marko Zlatik from Whiteboard Finance. He's using a whiteboard. It was harder to find people that teach on a whiteboard. And the reason why is because it's a little bit tricky to light properly a whiteboard without getting funny reflections. You can see. In front of his nose, there is a little bit of an overexposed area where you can see the white blown out from the light that is lighting the whiteboard. So it's a very effective teaching method. It's just a little bit harder to make it look good from a production standpoint. We got here a mystery guy. A mystery guy. I'm going to tell you who he is at the end of the video. So you got to watch all the way to the end to figure out who this guy is. He's using a whiteboard a long time ago. That's why this is blurry. And stick to the end to figure out who this guy is. Then we got Dan Martell, a friend of mine and also a great teacher. He has a YouTube channel where he teaches people how to grow startups, specifically software as a service startups. And in this case, he's using a flat screen TV. So his device in this case is a flat screen TV. Also a very effective teaching tool. But I would say a more effective way than using a projector. The problem with projector is the moment that you have a lot of environment. Light, then they become faded out. So if you want to use a big surface instead of a projector, you could use a big flat screen TV. They're going to look very, very professional. Now, let's move on to the third teaching style is the overhead shot. The shot just means that you put a camera pointing down at a flat surface and on the flat surface. Now you can do anything you want. You can show products like in this case, Zach Nelson from Jerry Rig Everything. He has millions of followers as well, and he deconstructs. He breaks apart, destroys and puts back together electrical devices. Most of the time they're phones and very entertaining to watch. But he's using an overhead camera. There is a couple of science YouTubers as well. They use an overhead camera. Henry from Minute Physics. He uses a felt pen over paper, very evenly lit. So they're not weird shadows and an overhead camera. Then we have the guys from ASAP Science. In this case, they're using a whiteboard. And there are no reflections. They paid a lot of attention to make sure that it's evenly lit. And they have an overhead camera as well. Now, graphics tablet. This is one of my favorite teaching devices and lecture teaching styles. And this is my tablet right here. We got here Salman Khan from Khan Academy, who by far, I would say, is the most popular online teacher on YouTube and in the world that uses a tablet to teach. And we got other teachers like Dr. Roger from Metcram, who is using pretty much the same style as Salman Khan, a tablet. And this is me teaching on a tablet. And if you're curious about which tablets you can get, you can start with what I have, which is a Wacom Intuos, then you can move up to things more expensive like the Wacom Cintiq or even an iPad Pro, which is going to cost you with the Apple Pencil just shy of $1,000. But a really effective teaching style. It's very organic when you see somebody drawing on, in this case, a tablet. It's kind of like the next step of the blackboard or the whiteboard or the paper easel. Animation. This is a very, very effective tool. I know because I run an animation studio for the last 10 years. But the only problem also I know is that it's a little bit expensive to do this because you have to do a lot of work. You have to write the script, storyboard, animate, sound design. Voice over all these different production stages add up to a lot of time. It can get complex, but the end result is usually very tight, very effective and could be extremely engaging. In this case, we have CGP Grey, which is an example of somebody that is using very, very crude animation. I'm using his as an example of somebody extremely successful with millions of followers with an educational channel that is not particularly good animating or at least drawing. But who cares? The message is extremely clear. And he's extremely entertaining. Now, if you want to add another dimension, in this case, the third dimension, 3D animation, you got somebody like Jared Owen from YouTube as well, and he does a great job at explaining how everyday devices and gadgets work and he breaks them apart in 3D animation. And they look great. We got now in this case 2D animation. He's using motion graphics tool, in this case, After Effect, Brian McManus from Visual Engineering has is a great example of somebody of using beautiful, very concise and clean animation and motion graphics to explain complex topics. And then I would say that probably the best animated YouTube channel, educational YouTube channel is in a nutshell. Now, this is a team of people. Obviously, you would need a higher budget in order to produce a video videos like this that are animated. But I would think that there was some of the most effective educational videos that I've seen and beautifully executed. Now, the sixth style is using stock footage. And when I say stock footage, that would be images or photos that are royalty free or you pay the rights to use and or video as well. A channel that leverages stock footage a lot is called Fusion from Dagogo Altraide. And he's got a beautiful voice and he combines stock footage. And video in a beautiful way to explain very interesting topics. And we got somebody like Sam Denvey from Wendover Productions, who uses stock footage and images and video a lot. Now, if you are want to use stock footage, there is three sites that I can recommend Storyblocks, Pexels and Pixabay. Storyblocks for a affordable monthly or yearly fee. You can access tens of thousands of royalty videos and images and Pexels and Pixabay the same. And a lot of these videos and images you can use as well. Sometimes you just have to give credit to the original creator. But the great advantage of using stock footage is that things can look extremely professional. You don't have to go out there with a production crew to shoot it. The video is already there. It's just tricky sometimes to find the ideal piece of footage or photo you were looking for. But if you have the help of a researcher and there's almost videos and footage of anything you could ever imagine, the seventh teaching style is green screen, which traditionally is just like a talking head. In this case, it's me in my office with a green screen on the background. And then in post-production, you use software. It could be after effects or even tools like Camtasia or ScreenFlow, where you're going to remove that green and then you're going to replace it with whichever digital background that you want. And the digital background could be an image like a stock image or video as well. And I have a tutorial. You can look in the description that I can teach you how to record a green screen talking head video using both Camtasia and ScreenFlow. Another example of a green screen YouTube channel is PBS Space Time. In this case, the green screen has already been removed and everything behind the host can be images or video. And another space channel, Curious Droid, again, a talking head. Where the background used to be green and now has been changed to, in this case, some animated video. The eighth recording style is screen recording, which is exactly what I'm doing right now, where I'm recording my screen using a piece of software. In my case, I'm using something called ScreenFlow. And you got here another example of a popular online marketer called Amy Porterfield, where she recorded a keynote presentation using screen recording. Software. And if you're curious about screen recording software, you can use Camtasia for both Windows and Macintosh or ScreenFlow just for Mac, which is what I'm using right now. And if you want a free version that is not as featured as the other two, but it allows you to also record your screen, your webcam, your microphone and edit the video. You can use a screencast automatic, which is free and works in both platforms, Windows and Macintosh. And finally, we got combos, which is just combine anything that you want talking head or motion graphics. So let me give you an example here. We have Captain Joe. It's a pilot that uses a combination of talking head. There is a whiteboard in the background. At the same time, he has some graphics on the right hand side that he can use to illustrate any specific points. We got somebody like my favorite math YouTube channel, Grant Sanderson from 3Blue1Brown. And during the lockdown, he was doing live streams where he had an overhead shot pointing down at a piece of paper where he was teaching math like trigonometry and the quadratic formula and stuff like that. And at the same time, on the right hand side, top corner, you can see that he had a camera pointing at his face. He had also a talking head type of setup as well. And he was combining both of them. And we got here again, Derek from Veritation. In this case, he's using three different styles. Could you guess which styles there are? Well, we have a talking head, obviously, with Derek speaking to the camera. On the background, we don't have a green screen. It could be a green screen. But in this case, I could tell because there is a shadow on the background and because it's very faded that this was a projection. So he is projecting an image, a video, and he's recording those two at the same time, his talking head and the projected video on the background screen. And then he's got some text and motion graphics on the top right hand corner that have been added in post-production. He's using three different teaching methods or styles in order to create this educational video. We have one of my favorite educational channels on science. It's called Smarter Every Day. And we have Destin here at home using a very simple setup talking head type of video, and he has superimposed some motion graphics in the form of a waveform to illustrate the point that he's teaching at that specific moment. And the last combo here, I think this guy is hilarious. And in this video, he's teaching the history of the entire world. It was released in 2017, became viral immediately. And in just under 20 minutes, he teaches the history of the entire world using a combination of motion graphics, animation and stock images and his own music. Bill Wurtsch, his videos are as weird, as unique and as eclectic as his last name. Highly recommend you watch this video. You want to see a different way of teaching online. And entertaining. This would be like what I would say, the perfect combination of education and entertainment. Learn the entire history of the world in 20 minutes by Bill Wurtsch. That's it. You just learn nine different ways that you can record lectures online. But did you guess who was the mystery lecturer? Can you guess? Yes. Steve Jobs doing a whiteboard presentation for his next computer. In 1990, his keynote presentations were epic. Here is him in 2007 introducing the iPhone for the first time to the world. And he was a great communicator and he used the combination of talking head and a big projection screen on the background. Thanks for watching. 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