Visual Storytelling / 13 posts found

YouTube Community Tab Tip 01

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YouTube Community Tab Tip 01 – 60 second technique Today I want to share my YouTube Community Tab Tip 01 with you, the first of which is that THIS is an excellent tool to use when you: don’t have time to even think about making a video haven’t had time to record the latest video ran out of time to edit the latest video totally exhausted trying to keep up with all the moving parts required to be a video creator. I’d like to share a secret with you – push all of those thoughts to the back recesses of […]

Wondering How To Make Your Videos Pop?

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Want to make your videos POP?! Hello there! I show business owners, brands and solopreneurs how to make their videos POP to get leads and clients from their video marketing. I’m Teena Hughes of TeenaHughesOnline.com and I love sharing how clever video marketing is something which everyone can do. Watch this video:     Prefer to watch on YouTube? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1b3bK8q_u0 I’ve created a series of easy peasy step-by-step Checklists: from how to plan the video in 5 steps, to what to put in the video, to how to use colour and create clever animations which grab attention in a very […]

Cartoon Episode 002 Video Marketing for Beginners

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Welcome to Cartoon Episode 002! I’m creating simple cartoons to help get the message across about video marketing – what do you think?   Do you like these Cartoon tips on video marketing? Please do let me know – and if you have any questions, I’m happy to help out wherever I can. Here are a few ways to get in touch with me: on my website on YouTube on Facebook. Cheers Teena Hughes    

Cartoon Episode 001 Video Marketing for Beginners

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Welcome to Cartoon Episode 001! I’m creating simple cartoons to help get the message across about video marketing – what do you think?   Do you like these Cartoon tips on video marketing? Please do let me know – and if you have any questions, I’m happy to help out wherever I can. Here are a few ways to get in touch with me: on my website on YouTube on Facebook. Cheers Teena Hughes

Square videos are great for social media marketing

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Why are square videos great? around 85% of videos on Facebook are watched without sound turned on square video size is 1080 x 1080px square videos are viewed most on mobile devices there are only 3 SECONDS to grab someone’s attention around 97% of watched Facebook videos have Captions it’s time to turn your videos into attention-grabbing social media squares today. Would you like to try it out? Send us a video up to one minute in length, and we’ll : create a square format add Captions if it has a voiceover add a Title with Logo at the top […]

Making Videos for Remembrance Day in Australia

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Today in Australia we remember those who fought in wars to keep us safe in the future. I decided to make a video meme, and when it was done I edited it slightly to create a audeogram. An audiogram shows the voice activity bar “waveform” which moves as you listen    

What is a storyboard? [Q&A 010]

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    Have you wondered, “What is a storyboard?” Hi, this is Teena Hughes with “What is a storyboard?” — today’s frequently asked question. A storyboard is : a sheet of paper or electronic device screen with a grid drawn on it possibly three or four across and large enough to draw in each section of the grid becomes a sketch, an idea, or thought about a scene for a video print the storyboard, and start to sketch ideas for each “shot” or “scene” with the video camera/smart phone no drawing skill is required – stick figures work great! Storyboarding […]

A quick chat about Talking Head Videos

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Click the video to play: Let’s have a quick chat about Talking Head Videos A “talking head” video is one where someone talks directly to camera while presenting information, like a newsreader, talk show host and guests etc. For some people, the mere idea of talking to a camera to make a video is frightening and overwhelming, and may prevent them from ever trying to do so. For others it feels natural and they thoroughly enjoy being the “star” of their own video. For many people though the emotions fall somewhere between those two :-) Two Different Video Styles In […]

Happy Halloween 2016

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It’s Happy Halloween! All Hallow’s Eve! 31st October! Here in Australia, more and more people are celebrating this date, even though it was never a part of my childhood. Amazing what watching so many US and Canadian TV shows can do for a country :-) In light of this, I’ve created a video — I used a video background, an audio file, added them both to Screenflow for Mac (for video editing), and added some text to come flying in at different times. Here it is below: I think it worked out ok, what do you think? What do you […]

How to create a video fast with a couple of images

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“Teena, how to create a video fast with a couple of images?” This is a question I’m asked quite often, and this week it was an email from Julianna on the other side of the world.  There are many software solutions available which you can buy, some on your computer already, but as Julianna is not very tech-savvy, I wanted to share the absolute simplest method with her. So today I’m going to show you an extremely simple online option: requires no login requires no email just upload images and save to desktop. First of all: gather the images you’re […]