(lighthearted lively music) (mellow playful music) Hey guys, what's going on.
Welcome to Travel Feels. Today, we're gonna talk
all about storytelling. How to tell a story in a vlog, in a tutorial, in whatever
kind of video you're doing. How to tell story. But first, let's visit a good friend of mine that I
haven't seen for a little bit. Check out this guy. - Yo! What's going on Travel
Feels? Fancy seeing you here. - [Travel Feels] I know.
What are the odds, right? - It's been a while - Yeah
it's been like a hundred years. It's been too long. - So good to see you. - Well this is gonna be
fun. What are we doing? - We're gonna ride ATVs, ride snowboards, make vlogs and videos, and try
not to crash drones. Alright. - That YouTube life. Now we're gonna ride this
thing with that tail rope behind this guy. Should be a fun day. So, storytelling is one
of those tricky things. It's so abstract that
it's hard to understand. When somebody says
"story", I think of a book with a good guy and a bad guy and something happens, there's
a problem and they fix it. That's what I think about story and that's probably what
a lot of you guys think about story too. But how do you tell story in something like a vlog, or even a tutorial? That sounds even harder.
How do you tell a story within those? How do you tell a story in every single one of
your YouTube videos? And it's actually a lot
simpler than it seems and I'm gonna try to break
things down a little bit and teach you guys what
I've learned so far about storytelling
especially through YouTube. YouTube has actually thought
me a lot about storytelling because it doesn't really
matter what you're doing or what you're filming, as
long as you're telling a story people are probably going
to be interested in it. Alright, I'm a little bit nervous. Peter hasn't rode the ATV too many times. Hopefully we'll be fine. And
I've never actually been towed behind anything snowboarding
but should be fun, right? Alright, let's do it. (smooth EDM music) Whew! That's tiring but super fun. So, people always think
you need something epic to do in order to have a good
story in something like a vlog But, actually that's
just what you're doing. There's still no story to it. If me and Peter were just doing this, we were just towing snowboards around, it's not really a story. Might be fun, might be entertaining but that's not telling a story. So, a classic vlog with
no story is one of these. I'm here with Peter on the back of an ATV. Now I'm hanging out in a forest. Now I'm lying down in some snow. Now I'm snowboarding. See that's not telling a story. That's just saying what you're doing and a lot of vloggers do that. They just say, "I'm here doing this and now I'm gonna do this later on" and just saying what's going on. But you're not actually
telling any story in that vlog. And the biggest thing
here is to just figure out what is the video about? Whether it's a vlog or a tutorial, what is it about? The best way to test if
you're video has a story is letting somebody else watch it and then asking them, "What
was that video about?" If they can't say what it's about, well then, you don't have a story. You need to figure out
what is the one thing that your video is about. And that could be anything.
For example, right now, we're riding ATVs and snowboarding in this random forest
place but the story here is about how to tell
stories. That's kinda meta but that's what this video is about. You don't need a hero and a villain and all these other things. You just need a point to your video. Whether it's a tutorial, a vlog, whatever you're doing has
to have some sort of point. You have to be saying something. And one of the things that helps with that is kinda giving your video some structure. So you need an intro, then
you have the actual content, and then you have an outro. So you introduce your topic,
what the video's about, why it's important, and
then you go through it. And then you kinda reiterate
or give some sort of resolution to everything
that you're going through. And that's how easy storytelling can be. It's not actually this vague weird thing like I had in my mind and I'm
sure a lot of you guys have to It's actually fairly simple but you do need to think about it. And I think if you're not
planning it out, it's gonna be really hard to actually
have a story in your video. Otherwise, it's just gonna
be one of these things. Well guys, I'm here in an empty field. And that's just not all that interesting. But even if you're not
doing anything exciting, if you have a really good story it's gonna be an interesting video. People always think that you
need to be doing something epic like this, snowboarding
in the middle of nowhere behind an ATV, but you
don't actually need that. You just need to be saying something. Just think about one point
that people will remember and say, "That's what
this video is about." Now you might be saying, "Well
you make tutorials for the most part; you're not
actually telling story." Well, that's not actually true. There's different ways of doing tutorials. If I wasn't telling any
story in a tutorial, I would just literally tell you, "Here's the technique.
Here's how you do it. Boom. Done. That's it. But I try to give you some intro on why this thing is important,
how it can help you, then I show you what it is. And then, I try to tie it all in and summarize it up for you guys. You having a good time, Peter? - Nearly lost this. I didn't
realize that like moguls were like dead ahead.
So I was just cruising. I strapped this down with bungee cords and was like, "Yeah, it'll hold." And then, it was just
like (loud bumping noises) Started flapping and flopping all over. And I was like, "Oh it's done." Thank goodness I had the lens hood on because it was just like (deep smashes). - [Travel Feels] Is my
snowboard still there? - Yeah, I made sure I had one arm on it. So it was like I was just (mumbles) You're snowboard's fine. (laughs) (mellow playful music) - Man oh man, was that fun,
but whoa, that's tiring. I don't know if I'm getting old or that's just a really hard workout. How was that, Peter? - It was awesome. I'm super pumped. My stuff is soaked, man. Everything is like, look at my camera. - [Travel Feels] Well at
least it's not stolen. - Yeah, I mean, well, no one's
gonna find a Green Pelican in a green forest, the middle of nowhere when it's freezing rain
outside in Northern Canada. - [Travel Feels] And it's Canada
so if someone did find it, they probably wouldn't steal it. - They'd probably be like,
"Who does this belong to?" - [Travel Feels] They'll
probably bring it to like the Police Station or something. - And you know what, if it gets stolen under those circumstances,
you deserve for it to be stolen because you
put your One DX in a forest in a tree and hid it and peaced out. We really did that, didn't we? - [Travel Feels] Yes, we did. (both laugh) Alright, that was fun. Took
a lot longer than we thought. We're kinda losing light here
so, I'll see you in the studio Alright, so let's take
a look at a few things that we can all do to
kinda guarantee or insure that we have the best chance
of telling a really cool story in our video in whatever
kind of video we're doing. Number one, and, probably
the most important, is to figure out what is your video about. Choose one topic so that
somebody else watches it, they know that this is
what this video is about. Your video needs one point, one topic, something that gives it
value and, hopefully, also entertains the
audience at the same time. Number two, intertwine that
topic or that idea, that story into your vlog or your tutorial
or whatever you're doing. So you could be doing anything at all like snowboarding on the back of an ATV, and then you have this topic or this thing that you're talking throughout the video. Intertwine that in. It's really
gonna help you tell story. Number three, if it helps,
break it into a beginning, a middle, and an end. Have an intro, then have your
stuff, and then have an outro. That really helps me,
especially when I'm thinking about the video beforehand, kinda planning what am I gonna do for the intro, and then what's gonna happen in the actual video, and then, how am I gonna end it. Number four, plan out your video. It's gonna help so much
if you actually think about all these things beforehand instead of just starting to film and just going along with it. It's gonna be really hard
to actually tell a story if you're not thinking
about it beforehand. So plan it out. And that
leaves us to number five, which is be okay with improvising. Things happen that you're not prepared for that you're not planning for, but as long as they fit your story, make sure to just go along with those. And sometimes those are the
best things in your videos. So make sure you have a
plan going into the video, but be okay with improvising
at the same time. So there you go. There's
some easy tips for you to ensure that you're
telling story in your videos. And the more you do this,
the more you practice it, the more you start
realizing these patterns of intro, middle, and then
outro and what that means and how does that fit in for
your tutorial or your vlog or whatever you're making
on YouTube or commercial or wherever it is. And the best part about
this is anybody can do it. It's completely free. It
doesn't cost you anything. You don't need expensive gear. Anybody can tell story as long
as you're planning it out, thinking about it beforehand.
Anybody can tell a story. And again you don't
need some epic adventure or some crazy thing in your video. You can be doing something really mundane as long as the story is there, people are gonna be really
interested in your video and that's the most important thing. Don't get me wrong. It does does help if you're being towed behind
an ATV on a snowboard. It does make it a little more interesting and more entertaining
but without the story, it's gonna be really boring,
no matter what you're doing. Everyone is capable of telling a story. Alright guys, this is actually
going to be the last video before Christmas so
Merry Christmas to each and every one of you guys. I hope you guys have some
nice time with your family and your friends and maybe
you just get some time off. That helps a lot. And I just wanna say I appreciate each and
every one of you guys. This year has been crazy, this channel. Everything that's happen.
I'm just really happy about this year and I'm
happy it's Christmas. I like Christmas. Alright
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