19 – Why a remote director helps your video content or podcast episodes

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So recording episodes by yourself, looking at a wall in a room, that can be a pretty scary thing to think about doing. It makes sense that it is because I think it's a

pretty human thing to worry about just rambling or looking at the camera wrong, like are looking weird on the camera. We worry about what our voice sounds like.

And I always worry about boring you or being monotonous or monotone. And this is a common thing we see on Reddit all the time from people, especially people who are newer

to podcasting, because this all feels weird. And we probably worry a lot more if we have some kind of business or meaning attached to these recordings outside of just

getting the story out. It's normal. It's valid.

Sitting in front of a camera with no one in the room, trying to sound like you're just talking to a friend, and you don't ramble and you're hitting all your points. It's

just a hard thing to do. People who do it for a living take years to get good at this thing with a lot of training attached to it. So these are all reasons that you might want

to find and hire a director if you have a business attached to it.

to the recordings. So big shows, they have directors and producers. Like your news shows, they certainly have those things. It's probably not what you're working on.

But even content that's professionally made that seems really spontaneous actually has a full-on plan and structure behind it. Perhaps even a script behind it. A lot

of the things that you see have some level

of direction or choreography planned before it's made. And you can do that even if you're running a small business. You're just going to do it on a much smaller scale.

You can get a remote director that can come and you can be in real time like over Zoom or whatever. And you can record and they can fix the issues for you while you record. Or

someone can give you notes and help you. They can tell you if you need to, you know, slow down.

your rushing or your confusing ideas or you could add an anecdote in this section here and you can go and add it in. They can also help you with things like your vocal

prosody. That's the musicality of the voice and your energy. And these things are really hard to kind of monitor like while you're trying to actually record the thing.

And the process if you do this is going to get a lot easier. Like it's not going to feel as strange either because you can kind of talk to somebody.

who's remote and not at your wall. And you practice, you're going to get some notes, and then you can just go show up and record your video. And then you just keep

practicing because all of this stuff takes a lot of time. So just going out there and recording, especially solo video or your first audio file, it can be a really

overwhelming thing to listen to because it might not sound the way that you want.

way that we want. And it's also really easy for us to compare ourselves with the professionals out there with a huge podcast that you've listened to so much and loved and

think that your first episode is going to turn out the same way. It just won't because you don't have the knowledge quite yet. You don't have that practice. And having a

director or having a mentor also can be so helpful to work with when you're new to this.

especially if you have that business attached because you want your content to reflect your business. So check out directors that can help you remote for your show or

even for just a limited series or really just even at the beginning just to help you get started when you're new. I'm Jen deHaan. This is the Credibility

Minute. You can find more episodes and get in touch with me at stereoforest.com slash minute.