Alright, it is time to create your class resources. Now what these might be is they might be slides  that you're gonna talk over the top of, okay. Some PowerPoint slides or, um, it might, it'll be the time  to create your dialogue, either fully written out  that you're gonna read out, or for me, like I just,  I should make sure I got bullet points underneath each kind  of outline topic. And you'll also be creating your, like, exercise files here  or your, um, let's say it's a bit more of a tactile class,  like, uh, I dunno, baking or, um, watercolor painting. You'll kind of create those now so  that you can practice them  and kind of get them ready for the course  and know where you're gonna talk about. So let's talk about them a little bit more.

Um, so slides are really good for if it's your first course  and you're like, man, do I have  to do the talking head thing like this? I wouldn't, I didn't for the first year of mine. 'cause it's, it's really nerve wracking. It's really hard. It takes a long time and it's hard to do without cuts. So I'm getting better at it, but I'm still, I waffle a lot.

You can tell. But I find this is quite natural  and I, I like it as a, as the experience for the student. But, um, for your first courses, you don't have  to just talk over the slides with a microphone. They don't even have to see your face. Okay? So, so create those slides.

Dialogue. I talk just to rough bullet points rather than, um,  like say a teleprompter. So if you do do live talking head stuff, you might just,  you might find that it's quite hard to do without any, um,  like for me, I, I'm just kind of naturally trying  to do this, but you might find it's a lot more professional  or works a lot easier for you to read from a teleprompter. Teleprompters are pretty cool. They're, you can make on yourself with an iPad, Google  homemade teleprompter. I didn't find it very useful for me.

It was good. It kind of takes the nerves away a little bit  'cause you can just read out  and you sound a whole lot better. But I find reading from a teleprompter is, if you're really,  really nervous, it's gonna raise your game to here. But if you are okay, like I am at talking on camera,  it's gonna kinda lower you down to this baseline. You know, take all the kind of, I don't know, organic  and personal  and, uh, connection you can have with a student down  to this kind of like median. So if you are really stressed  and sweating, read from teleprompter, but  after maybe a couple of courses, you might try  and do it a bit more naturally and like  they never get done in one take.

Like if I am doing this talking head stuff, this is okay  'cause it's a little bit more of a dialogue. But if it's the intro, you should see how many takes I have  to do to kind of head all my like, hi, my name is Dan  and I'm a Adobe certified instructor. And then I'll kind of, it takes a long time. So don't, if you are worried and you're like, man,  it takes me a whole day to do a short video, that's me too. Okay. Um, these ones a little bit easier  because I'm talking, there's no expectation  of a succinct video.

You would probably wish it was, it was a bit shorter,  but I'm okay to ramble. Um, so, uh, make sure you've got a dialogue. I don't read from it. I  just have bullet points to talk from. Get your slides ready and your exercise files. Now your exercise files for me is quite useful.

So the whole process of it is really,  really helpful in making a really nice smooth course. What I mean by that is that,  let's say I'm doing a Photoshop course, okay? And let's say I get to the bit, I'm gonna, I have  to make exercise files right? For us to make. So I go off, I find images  that we're gonna use, and then I go through my outline  and I go, okay, outline, uh, we need  to talk about retouching here. So I'm gonna find a good example  and I'm gonna start kind of doing it myself  before I make other people do it.

And that does a couple things. One is it helps me kind  of put down the bullet points of  like, oh, make sure I tell 'em this. Oh, make sure I don't forget that bit. And I add that to my like, uh, outline,  remember the big messy one from earlier on? Okay. So, um, it has like the little notations in there  for me to make sure I cover.

It also helps me like,  like it's kind of like a crazy person. But what I do is when I'm doing it, I'm talking in my head  to my fictional audience. Okay. And I'm saying, I'm just, I'm imagining how I would,  uh, you know, like discuss it during the course. So I'm talking to myself in my head  and I get to, it's, it's really good  'cause I get to points where I'm like, huh,  how am I gonna discuss that here without having first kind  of acknowledged it in earlier  on the course or something like that. Or maybe like I just get to a video, I'm like, man,  this is too high core for  where I feel we're at in the course.

It looked good when I was drawing the outline,  but in the flow of the course, it's not working. So what I'll do is I'll go in  and say, all right, I'll either move it around  and go, you just need to be later. This whole section, it's gonna go down two pegs so  that we're, the class is a bit more knowledgeable  and fluent in the program before we get to that. Or let's say that it is, um, uh,  fluent in the program, let's say I just gotta go back  and like maybe introduce it a bit earlier. Okay. Maybe a smaller version of that thing,  that technique that I need to explain.

I just kind of drop it in. I like, okay, I'll go back to here,  update this little exercise a bit to,  to talk about it a little bit so it's not such a big kind  of overwhelming surprise later on. I find that really useful  and I find my courses flow so much better when I've,  I've got that kind of, I've done  that crazy person talk in my head. So exercise files, slides, you might be, uh, doing the thing  that you plan to do if you're doing a bit more  of a theoretical course, say it's business, uh,  it's a bit more of a yeah, a theory based. You might just be doing the slides here Okay. And maybe the dialogue.

Um,  but yeah, it's time to get everything ready  before you start recording. And just so you know, the timeframes that I give myself, uh,  I find, let's say  that I did a 50 video course just recently. It's a big, big long course you might doing anything  that big, but that 50 videos, um, I, I like,  if I was planning it again now, I'd say, okay,  I need about four days of getting the, the content ready  but kind of running it out, adjusting my thing. I generally do it in three days,  but about four days is kind of what it takes me. And then recording is probably gonna take  me about a week and a half  Solid. Okay,  well solid working days.

So 5, 6, 7, maybe eight days  of recording to get all that done. I'm getting better at it. It'll probably take me a lot  longer in the early days. But your, if it's your first course,  you're gonna be doing this on the weekends and the evenings. So don't pick a 50 video course for your first one. Pick a 10 video course.

Okay. Something small that you can do  and you can get out in a month or two. And as you know, you can just do that forever. I, I've gone full time with it  and so I get to pour all my time into doing it. But I guess it's just interesting to know  how long sometimes this kind of prep takes compared  to the recording and that prep is so much useful  because it makes the flow  of the actual recording so much nicer. Alright, that my friends is gonna be it for yeah.

Preparing your course material. Next video. We're gonna start the recording. Alright, see you there.