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So now let's talk about three things that you should not overlook, that a lot of you tubers and, you

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know, just content creators in general definitely do, and you should not be one of them.

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So what are they?

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First and foremost, we're gonna talk about what a wide backdrop matters before we actually get into

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that.

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I do want to talk about the fact and reiterate the fact that not only with any content, but especially

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YouTube lighting matters and audio quality matters, they are, if anything matters the most, is probably

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lighting quality and audio quality.

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Right now, I'm not gonna talk too much about these because in the intro I went through and suggested

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a bunch of, you know, the intro module.

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I went through and I suggested a bunch of lighting, you know, answers for you that, you know, some

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cheap option, some more expensive options like the ones that I potentially use or so audio quality

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options, some some cheap ones, like a you know, a mike that's like a lavalier mike or like a shotgun.

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Mike, if you're recording certain things or like a mike like this, like a blue snowball, which is,

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you know, I think it's only like 80 bucks.

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One of the highest quality mikes even get that plugs in your computer.

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There's a lot of different suggestions there.

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Or you can simply just use like a microphone, you know, like your your the one that plugs into like

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your iPhone and record there or simply use your iPhone.

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I talk about a lot of examples in those lectures and you know why they're good and what they're good

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for.

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So I highly recommend that if you need to reference them again, you go back and watch the specific

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lectures in the intro module because there's a lot of great tips in there.

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You can go, you know, fall out and spring for an expensive one that's really gonna make a difference.

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Or there are some really, really, really high quality and good suggestions for low budget people or,

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you know, even free.

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So that's super, super crucial.

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And I want to hit that home, especially for YouTube.

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But that said, backdrop matters as well, right?

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So backdrop is huge.

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And backdrop, just to put simply, is literally what in my opinion is what the audience sees.

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Right.

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So if you're gaming and you're to you're recording your screen on the game, then obviously you don't

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really need to worry about your backdrop to too much because the audience is engaged watching, you

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know, the game.

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And if you're just screen recording your game or, you know, whatever it is, they're not there really

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isn't a backdrop.

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Right.

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The game becomes the backdrop.

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You don't worry about it.

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That said, if your screen recording like this.

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Right, or you're you know, you're in like the little corner and you're actually recording your screen,

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or maybe you're not even in the corner and you're just simply recording your screen.

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Then it becomes even more important.

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And that in that case, backdrop basically is the screen and what they see.

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Right.

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So your backdrop currently is obviously my face talking in a little.

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Right.

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Right here.

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And then obviously that what you see on the screen now, that could be two different things that could

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be right now, like a PowerPoint right here or could be me like online somewhere showing you like the

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how to actually go through and like do something on a computer and like the click patterns and how I

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actually go through it.

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Right.

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The key is here with backdrop.

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When your screen recording is it's very, very important.

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You want to keep a moving or at least an engaging screen.

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The worst thing that you can do is literally be sitting there and just kind of talking in the corner

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with nothing going on.

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And this is for YouTube specifically.

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But obviously this goes for, you know, just overall engagement.

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So I'm doing a bad job of doing that right now because I'm just simply talking in the corner and nothing's

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necessarily moving on the screen.

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So at worst, and at the very least, you want to show things to keep I engagement's.

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Now, this is a special course, obviously, song.

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Want to make sure that you guys understand all this stuff and I'm going through and hitting points so

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that you can take this information and apply it.

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It's not necessarily for, you know, entertainment so much that it is educational.

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And for that reason I'm not too focused on, you know, the screen and, you know, moving stuff around.

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That said, the entire course is not just me sitting here and showing you and reading certain things,

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do you?

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You know, I'm trying to do my very best to keep an engaging screen and keeping it as entertaining as

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possible.

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But I do to offer value.

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And to be honest, you know, the most people that are gonna get the most out of this course are people

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that are already interested in serious about content or growing their YouTube Skillshare or unity and,

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you know, making passive income with content.

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So their interest should already be driving home watching these lectures.

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That said, with a YouTube video, you really, really, really need to be engaging and keep people

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focused and watching.

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So the worst thing you could do, like I said, is just sit there and talk in the corner and have nothing

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going on in the screen at all.

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Like, if I were just sitting here on, like, Google.

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Right.

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And talking in the corner on a YouTube video and explaining why Google is good and why you need to use

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Google and this and that you're going to lose so many people's attention and their attention span is

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already low to begin with.

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So if you're not engaging them on the screen, you're not engaging them visually.

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Chances are they're going to leave or they're going to be high.

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They're going to be a higher risk to leave than if you're doing something and actually moving around

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on the screen to keeping keep them visually engaged.

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Right.

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And a great way to do that if you don't want to focus on that right now.

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Like on the screen, obviously, like this is a good example of things.

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So you could even have, like, you know, special effects in your ear.

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You're like not special effects, but like like effects on your PowerPoint.

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Right.

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So, like, things flying in and like, we all know how to do that with PowerPoint.

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I'm sure I'm not focused too too much on this for this core specifically.

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But you could do that.

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But another great way to do that would just be adding viral.

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But it's just basically putting into another video where another image on top of this layer so that

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people aren't actually seeing this in the background, they're going to see like a.

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Picture or a video or something else while I'm talking in the background.

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So a great way to do that and keep it engaging would be the ad bureau in post when you're editing.

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Now, if you are in front of the camera, then a backdrop becomes the most important soft flash.

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A little, you know, video of me up on the screen right now talking in one of my latest videos on YouTube.

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And you can see the backdrop here is, you know, I'm sitting in front of my desk while I'm basically

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going over certain things and the camera.

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This is a structure this way on purpose because it looks like, you know, hey, I'm sitting in front

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of my desk.

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This is where I get worked on, which actually is true.

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And it just communicates, you know, my opinion so subconsciously that, hey, this guy's about business,

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he's getting stuff done.

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That said, I need to improve this a lot considerably myself.

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So I highly recommend that you take this into consideration yourself to one of the worst things you

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can do is not focus on your backdrop, because it is the number one thing that people are going to be

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looking for and looking around at while you're engaging them if you're talking in front of a camera.

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Right.

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So a lot of people will get, you know, just get in front of a whiteboard.

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And I do this from time to time, too.

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But that in a lot of ways can be kind of boring and you'll lose a lot of eye attention that way.

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So if you look at any of the top YouTube bears, there's always a good backdrop.

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Look at Graham, Stefan pop video up of him up on the screen.

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Right.

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Look at, you know, some other people.

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I'll pop videos of them simultaneously up on the screen right now to give you a couple of good examples.

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Dan Locke's a great example of this.

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He always has a different backdrop.

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He's always moving around.

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So Bashar definitely matters.

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You don't want to lose people's attention.

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You want to keep their eyes visually engaged on YouTube, because at the end of the day, you can like

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I said, you want to be going long term and long game focused and giving value, but you also want to

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entertain.

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You need to do both on YouTube.

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And one of the most important things, if you're not focusing on lighting or audio, what you are should

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be doing is your backdrop.

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If you're talking with a screen recording or a camera, you need to focus on this.