Camera Ready with Val Brown
Learn from Emmy Award winner Val Brown about how to look, feel and sound your best in front of the camera. Whether it’s for social media, headshots or television, learn what you need to know to support your brand and deliver your message effectively with credibility and authenticity to your target audience. music: Scott Holmes
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The first step in creating a video strategy is creating a video content mission statement. It will answer three questions: what you do, how you do it and why.
Once you know these three things you can then create your video mission statement what type of information will you deliver and why.
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Thinking about using video in your business can feel OVERWHELMING. There are so many moving parts, it’s not always easy to figure out where to get started or where to focus your efforts to get the biggest return on your time and budget.
The future belongs to the storyteller, if you can tell stories, the world is your oyster."
That's a quote from my friend, mentor and master marketer Mike Kim in part two of my...
My guest is friend, mentor, and master marketer, Mike Kim.
For those of you who aren't familiar with Mike, get ready to have your mindset about marketing completely reset.
Marketers who use video are growing company revenue 49% faster year-over-year than those who don’t, according to research from Aberdeen Group.
We all need data in our businesses to accurately fo...
You need to use video for your business and the thought of going live on Facebook sends shivers up your spine?
Or even worse, you feel sick or lose sleep even thinking about it?
You can’t really put your finger on it. You speak in front of groups of people all the time. Why is Facebook Live different?
Live video is something we all need to do for our businesses and it can be intimidating when you haven’t done it before.
I hear from so many of you that you feel paralyzed because you don’t know where to get started, you don’t feel like you have anything to say or that you can remember what you want to share.
Learn a simple outline to use for ...
"Good habits make time your ally, bad habits makes time your enemy." James Clear
James says to forget about setting goals to get better results, focus on your systems instead. To reach your goals, you n...
Have you ever tried time and time again to reach a goal or a dream, been disappointed, and felt like just giving up?
Wanting to give in to that inner voice that says “this just isn’t for you.”
I have.
This is a personal story about turning failures into a pathway to achieve your dreams.
The takeaways?
As we are preparing for the new year, it’s a time for reflection and to take stock of things we’ve done well and things we’d like to...
Has this happened to you?
When you look at your holiday photos you think everyone in the shot looks great except you because:
We’re all busy, whether we’re running our own business, leading our team or building our career.
Taking time to figure out how to put on makeup for video seems like a huge time suck.
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Do you ever wonder if you should wear makeup or not on video?
You're just not sure how much to wear or what to use?
It’s a question I get asked a lot.
Did you know that how you show up on camera is more than what you are wearing and your makeup?
For the next two weeks, I am going to share my Emmy award winning secrets about makeup for video - things I've learned over three decades producing television.
Today's podcast is part o...
We've all watched lots of videos where the background seems out of synch with the person speaking or there is so much going on you are focused on that and not the speaker.
And that’s completely avoidable. In today's episode I’m going to cover a simple checklist to make sure your background is appropriate for the video you are shooting, no matter how much time yo...
Creating videos on the fly is something I get asked about a lot, whether its for your product or a business message or idea you need to deliver quickly and effectively.
And, as I was going through my morning ritual the other day I thought wow...
On Camera Confidence is a result of working with your strengths and developing in areas where you are not as strong.
What Can I Do If I Don't Like The Way I Look On Camera? I Know It's Silly, But I Can't Help It...
During my career there have been times where I’m really sensitive a...
Video is the fastest way for you to create a connection with your audience - the sound of your voice and body language allows your audience to connect with you instantly.
Using video lets your aud...
When you create a video to tell a story, do you sometimes feel like you are shooting in the dark?
Or, because you're not sure what to shoot, you record e...
Interview with Emmy award winning documentary producer, and director Kenneth Kebow about how to create great looking videos on a budget.
Ken is a friend, colleague and mentor and has been in the television business for more than 30 years. Some of his clients include Google, American Airlines, Ford, CBS and the United States Marines. He has been honored with a num...
We all use filler words. It’s normal to pause in between thoughts and use uhms, ers, and other filler words.
It’s when you use too many of them it interferes with your effectiveness in delivering your message.
It also makes your listeners work harder to get to the heart of what you have to say.
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