Researching & Writing for YouTube: How to Make a Great Video Essay

From zero to finished script: in this class I'll share my learnings from 7 years of making videos on the internet. We will specifically focus on video essays, and educational videos.

In this class I'll teach you how you can:

• come up with hundreds of new ideas,
• decide which idea is worth turning into a video,
• find a compelling narrative within your topic
• research a topic properly
• write a compelling script

• Welcome to class
• Ideas list
• Picking winners
• Testing ideas
• Research
• Checks & balances
• Focused writing
• Story blocks
• One last check
• Next steps