The Talking Heads. Remember them? They had some really great tunes. My personal favorite was “Wild Wild Life.” If you saw the video, you would have noticed that John Goodman was in it. Anyway, the talking head that I’m talking about in this article is the style of video that most people create for their marketing. You know, where they get up in front of the camera and, well, talk. Some of them are darn boring to say the least. Well, if your talking head marketing video is dull, here are some ways to liven them up.

I really need to thank my friend Kevin Riley, who is so great with videos, for this first one. I was watching one of this talking head videos and noticed how he alternated between one view and another so as to break things up a bit. When I spoke to him, what he told me was that he simply shot the video from two different angles with two different cameras. He then went into his editor and pieced together parts from each angle. This did wonders for breaking up the monotony.

Another thing you can do is alternate between the talking head and a graph, kind of like a Powerpoint slide. You can speak about one topic in your video and then part way through the presentation, show a slide with statistics relevant to what you’re talking about. This will give the viewer a little break from your face for a while. It’s probably a good idea to sprinkle in these slides every few minutes or so. I don’t recommend talking for any longer than five minutes at a clip.

Then of course you can simply shoot each part of the video itself from different locations. You can start out from your home and then maybe after a few minutes, work your way to outside your home. Maybe have yourself being filmed in your car after that. By mixing up the locations, you also break up the monotony and keep the person interested in what you’re talking about.

You don’t have to be the greatest speaker in the world. Sometimes, just by giving somebody something different to look at every five minutes or so, you can greatly break up the boredom in your video and keep the viewer glued to your every word.

To YOUR Success,

Steven Wagenheim

Want to find out how to create killer videos like my friend Kevin Riley and rake in a 6 figure income like he and I do? Check out my review of his dynamite product at my blog at http://stevenwagenheim.blogspot.com/2008/06/kevin-rileys-recipe-for-success.html