These ladies are on their way - as soon as that take off the lens cap!

How to videos for your niche market are an excellent way to leverage the power of video with the tight focus of a special interest group. In this series, we'll take a step by step approach to creating your first How To Video and market it to your niche.

Each lesson includes examples of the topic being discussed as well as some action notes to get you started. This is a "Mixed Media" learning course so there will be video, audio, slide shows, and a variety of material to reinforce each lesson and have a lot of fun along the way - AMV style! I'll also post Member Videos if you send me a link to a video that illustrates a topic.

Here are the topics in this course.

Lesson:

1. Getting Started - Video Production 101
1. What every producer should know
2. DIY vs. PIY
3. Equipment (Camera, Mic, Lights, Tripod, Computer)
4. Software (Editing, Graphics)
2. Picking Your Topic
1. What do you know?
   
2. Find your audience
3. Discover their needs
4. Market from Day 1
3. Product Development Workflow
   
4. Find your Guru
1. Find your inner guru
2. Find your local guru
5. The 'Script'
1. Creating the Outline
2. Fleshing out the parts
3. Planning the interview
4. What you need to script
5. Beginning Middle and End
6. The Shoot
1. Setup (location, location, location)
2. Lighting tips from the pros
3. Mic techniques
4. Framing (CU, MS, WS, LS, ES)
5. Prompting
7. The Art of the Interview
1. "Get natural" on camera
2. 3 Interviewing techniques from the pros
3. Shooting yourself
8. The Science of the Demo
1. Start to finish
2. What to leave out
3. What you must include
9. Screencasts - Lessons from THE pro, Mr Screencast himself
1. The setup
2. The recording
10. Editing
1. Theme - Graphics & Consistency
   
2. Speed Edit
3. Editing Tricks
4. Audio
5. Mastering
11. Delivery
1. DVD
1. Authoring
2. Replicating
3. Selling
2. Internet
1. Hosting
2. Playing
3. Protecting
12. Marketing
1. I got a virus
2. Give it away
3. Wherever you are, there's your product
4. Partner for success
1. JV
2. Reviews
3. Blogs
4. Affiliates