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May 13, 2022 34 mins

How do you actually get a story out of your head and into a video on YouTube? 

There are lots of ways to do it, but it’s easy to get confused and frustrated in the process.

Today Jeff Bartsch  talks about the 5 levels of storytelling on YouTube, when to use them, and some tactics that ANYONE can use to raise their storytelling skills at ANY level.

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SHOW NOTES

00:00 Raising your storytelling skills on YouTube

01:02 Jeff’s journey storytelling in Hollywood

05:16 An introduction to the five levels of storytelling

07:24 Level One: Using a solo-talking head

08:43 The Master Story Framework

11:17 Level two: talking head with b-roll

11:23 What is b-roll? And how to use it

14:12 Storytelling technique: “See and Say”

14:45 Level three: scene work with a talking head

16:55 The advantages of using scene work in your videos

19:20 Level four: scene work breaking the fourth wall

21:04 Level five: scene work WITHOUT breaking the fourth wall

22:45 What is expositional dialogue?

25:27 How to apply the five levels of storytelling to your content

31:26 The rewards of applying these levels of storytelling

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