How To Make Videos For Youtube: Launch & Grow Your Channel

This lesson goes over high-level keys to launching a channel and how to execute these various stages. Making videos is important, but figuring out what videos you want to make is the very first step. John shows you how to brainstorm channel ideas, know your audience, come up with video topics, how to title your videos, generate thumbnails and research your niche.

This lesson is all about pointing the camera at yourself and confidently delivering lines. Youtube is all about who you are and developing your personality can get people to subscribe even if it’s outside their niche. Jesse shows you how to get over any awkwardness, talk to camera confidently, figure out what kind of personality you want to be, communicate your ideas to the audience and captivate and keep peoples attention.

This lesson is an overview of the essentials to production. From getting started to taking your work to the next level. It includes a mix of camera basics, set building, settings, lighting and everything in between. Becki will show you how to to build out a camera rig with minimal gear, design a set for youtube, shoot in sequences, make amazing work on budget, read light and implement different lighting techniques in your productions.

Youtube is all about consistency and consistency comes down to workflow. This lesson walks you through Sarah's workflow for editing efficiently on any software. Sarah will teach you how to script videos, shoot for the edit, solve editing problems, deliver videos quickly and utilize different editing techniques for any software*. *Sara's Efficient Editing lesson is done in DaVinci, which you can go download for free. All learnings still applicable to Premiere Pro and other editing software.

Sara Dietschy (rhymes with peachy) is a YouTuber and content creator based in Dallas, Texas. She has over 780,000 subscribers on her self-titled channel where she creates and uploads docu-series, tech reviews and vlogs.

Becki is a graphic designer and photographer, makes YouTube videos about visuals, travel, and home with her husband, Chris.

Hey, I'm Jesse (@jessedriftwood). Easily excitable, always optimistic, photographer, filmmaker, fun haver, family man from Toronto, Canada.

John Hill is a professional skateboarder for Revive Skateboards. Follow his journey into building brands, learning tricks, collaborating with some of the most popular skateboarders, illustration, and pure adventure.