How to prepare your dance video for YouTube
So, you want to start a dance career and get noticed? To do this you decide to post on YouTube your dance videos.
Let’s be clear on how this can work:
If you do dance shorts up to 1 minute (YouTube is changing this soon to play shorts up to 3 minutes), you are unable to get money from YouTube’s Adsense account.
But if your reason is just to get noticed and get opportunity from being seen around the globe, then not getting paid by YouTube might be ok. I have seen dancers get over 1 million subscribers just by post regular shorts.
Also, the reason to do shorts and not 8 minute videos where you can get paid YouTube Adsense is because you can select the music from YouTube to use in your video. If you chose to do up to an 8 minute dance video, your video could get blocked for copywriting the music.
Once you do create a YouTube channel you can get the YT Studio app and this gives you the statistics on your videos and the audience demographics. This is handy for future videos and knowing what people want to see and also, what they will click past.
Lighting is important. A dark space is unappealing. But also a space that works with your theme and dance style is ideal. Your one light may be enough but if you also want to drop some cool coloured lights that may work also. It does come down to, how much you want to spend on your dance set.
Also where is your dance set going to be?
In a room in your home? In your back yard? Or at the beach or even in the mountains? Is it going to be in the city streets? There are so many options. Since you will be posting a lot, think about where the first three videos will be located.
What are you going to wear?
This too can depend on the style of dance video you want to do and some people just wear their exercise clothes and still hit a lot of views. You don’t have to spend a lot of money on a costume just look in your cupboard first to see if you have anything you want the world to see.
Use your description section to promote your fan pages and social media. If you want to grow your other social media Pages related to dance, add their links to the description of your YouTube videos.
Post regularly
If you are posting a one minute short, you can post daily or once a week. Any more longer than once a week and you may not get traction. The best way is to video everything in a day and then post each dance a different day. That way you aren’t trying to film each day. You are just dedicating one day a week to film.
Work out your camera
Obviously the better the video graphics the better your dance clip. You don’t have to use a special video camera, your mobile phone is enough. But are you going to film in different directions and then mash them together and then cut it and transition the video edits to one full dance? That is definitely more engaging than just the camera forward facing. But obviously if forward facing is all you can do then just do that.
There are free video editing apps that directly upload to YouTube. Play around with editing your videos, you might be surprised how fun and easy it is.
I hope these tips help you one your YouTube journey. Tag your YouTube channel in the comments below:
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