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- 0:00this is the advanced guide to creating
- 0:01killer YouTube scripts to blow up your
- 0:03channel because what's the secret how do
- 0:06these channels systematically craft
- 0:07scripts designed to go viral almost
- 0:09every single time I mean look at these
- 0:12scripts these scripts are engineered
- 0:14with psychology and tactics to create
- 0:16the most engaging videos I mean come on
- 0:18this just sounds like poetry I'm going
- 0:20to steal the Declaration of Independence
- 0:22but it can't be the scripts it's got to
- 0:23be something else right it's probably
- 0:25just the gear they're using or maybe
- 0:26they have a huge following on Tik Tok or
- 0:28they know something we don't and they
- 0:30want to keep that knowledge a secret
- 0:31well there is a secret but the secret to
- 0:34success isn't what you think secret
- 0:36lives with Charlotte and without this
- 0:39YouTube itself completely falls apart
- 0:42good news is it's actually quite simple
- 0:44here's the story so it turns out a
- 0:46script can be either average great or
- 0:48killer and it's not a normal
- 0:50distribution most scripts are average
- 0:52that's why the vast majority of us are
- 0:53stuck under a th000 Subs while a select
- 0:55few break a million the quality of
- 0:57scripts is vastly different and that's
- 0:59why the channel results are vastly
- 1:01different and this video will show you
- 1:03how to write all three types and yeah
- 1:05mainly the killer one but you have to
- 1:06write an average script before you write
- 1:08a killer script and whether you write
- 1:09scripts before you film or you craft
- 1:11your story in the edit this video is for
- 1:13you and speaking of you if you're new to
- 1:15the channel welcome because you're home
- 1:17and to be honest we need you subscribers
- 1:18to this channel are men and women well
- 1:20for some reason mostly men why are there
- 1:23so many dudes on this channel she's out
- 1:25there subscribers to this channel are
- 1:28men and women who love creating videos
- 1:30and genuinely want to make themselves
- 1:32their families their communities their
- 1:34Nations a better place and after being
- 1:36nearly a year and a half of being gone
- 1:38from YouTube of course the night before
- 1:39I film my girlfriend's dog slashed my
- 1:42face but I've seriously missed you all
- 1:44so much and I'm so excited to finally be
- 1:46back on YouTube the secret to YouTube
- 1:48scripts and frankly all scripts in
- 1:50general is that they're a function of
- 1:52two things build intention and this one
- 1:56formula should guide every second of
- 1:57your script writing process and it's
- 1:59what holds all of YouTube together
- 2:01what's the one point You're Building
- 2:03towards and how do you create tension
- 2:05along the way and this is a function
- 2:07like however good your build and
- 2:09ttention are your video will do average
- 2:11great or completely blow up your channel
- 2:13it really only takes one video so where
- 2:16do we start it's a riddle Bobby Fisher
- 2:19the legendary chess champion said
- 2:21tactics flow from a superior position so
- 2:24while you want to hurry up and start
- 2:25writing your whole script that's not
- 2:27where we start this killer script you
- 2:29see here flowed from a killer outline
- 2:32first like an overall Arc for the whole
- 2:34story and at its simplest form that Arc
- 2:37is just three things the story is
- 2:39introduced builds to a climactic peak
- 2:42and then resolves so to get started
- 2:44don't start writing a script start
- 2:46writing an outline and to help me write
- 2:48my outlines and my scripts for my videos
- 2:50I made this app called Studio Forge
- 2:52Google Docs and all that works but I
- 2:53just needed a dedicated platform to help
- 2:55me make my Youtube video so that's why I
- 2:57made this app link below in the
- 2:58description look when you start watching
- 3:00any other video you'll start noticing
- 3:02what's the intro what's the climax
- 3:04what's the resolution this is pretty
- 3:05simple stuff but almost every YouTuber
- 3:07skips this this is the whole foundation
- 3:10and without these three things you're
- 3:11going to struggle writing a killer
- 3:13script good news is it's actually quite
- 3:17simple this is Cole Zer Cole makes
- 3:20videos helping people get through their
- 3:21breakup he makes really authentic
- 3:23content that's designed not just to help
- 3:25them get their ex back but on how to
- 3:27move forward and be a better person and
- 3:29live their life more and now just like
- 3:31pretty much every Tik tocker he's trying
- 3:33to figure out how to get onto YouTube
- 3:35it's pretty frustrating what kind of
- 3:37ideas do you have so far so I want to
- 3:39make a video on six reasons people leave
- 3:42the ones they love to just give people
- 3:43more understanding about what happened
- 3:45in their relationship so let's go ahead
- 3:46and create a video from there when you
- 3:48have your video ideas laid out in a
- 3:50manner like this it becomes really easy
- 3:52to just pick one of your ideas and start
- 3:53making a video from it oh that's cool
- 3:57okay okay playing video do you have a
- 3:59thumbnail yet
- 4:00nope word title um no have you watched
- 4:04any of my videos before we ever start
- 4:06with the script we got to come up with
- 4:07outline let's go into outline mode this
- 4:10is freaking cool this is what the
- 4:11average YouTube script looks like
- 4:13there's a weak intro like welcome to the
- 4:15channel there's hardly any emotional
- 4:17Builder Climax and the resolution is
- 4:19basically a like And subscribe so this
- 4:21is basically like the average YouTube
- 4:23video right this is about how far I
- 4:24would usually go and then I would just
- 4:25set the camera and talk and that that
- 4:27works right that'll get you average
- 4:29result results but we're here for killer
- 4:31results I was waiting for that word
- 4:33killer so now the question is how do we
- 4:34turn this average script into a great
- 4:36script a better intro a better Climax
- 4:39and a better conclusion what's the one
- 4:41point You're Building towards I have two
- 4:43main ideas so one major point is just
- 4:45giving people some education explanation
- 4:48on what probably happened these are the
- 4:49six most common that I've seen the next
- 4:51point is to explain to people and
- 4:55validate people that did leave for these
- 4:57reasons that it's okay that they're not
- 5:00the bad guy for choosing to leave a
- 5:02situation that wasn't the best for them
- 5:04is it okay to have two we may have more
- 5:06clarity on what's the one climax we're
- 5:08building towards if we do a better job
- 5:10on our intro once we know what the hook
- 5:12is then we know the answer that it's
- 5:15going to be I could tell a personal
- 5:17story just about like how I was so
- 5:19confused and I would go through
- 5:21thousands of different possible
- 5:23scenarios in my head of why I got left
- 5:25what I might have done wrong the hook is
- 5:27I'm so hurting and Confused that climax
- 5:30is the answer as to why they left the
- 5:32relationship what you do once you have
- 5:33it and the conclusion the resolution is
- 5:36going to be now that I see this light
- 5:38here's how it my story can resolve and I
- 5:41can move forward we've got two climaxes
- 5:43and I think that that could be a problem
- 5:45how can we sum up these two climaxes
- 5:47into one killer point that we're trying
- 5:49to build towards closure is I think the
- 5:51biggest one it's like climax Max I don't
- 5:55know how I feel about that how do you
- 5:56cut that down into something shorter is
- 5:59it closure is it alleviating confusion I
- 6:03think the main thing is understanding
- 6:05like closure through understanding
- 6:07closure through understanding you can
- 6:09see that Cole's getting more and more
- 6:11clarity as he simplifies what's his
- 6:13intro what's his Climax and what's his
- 6:16resolution this is a killer outline so
- 6:18okay cool how do you feel about it I
- 6:19freaking love it so don't write your
- 6:21script until you've written your outline
- 6:23what's your intro hook what's your
- 6:25climactic build and how do you resolve
- 6:27the story and ladies and gentlemen when
- 6:30you've done the work like this on your
- 6:32outline the script just flows naturally
- 6:35do you feel like any of the tension is
- 6:37going to be lost in the reasons maybe if
- 6:39it gets lost in the reasons it could
- 6:40kind of die down and then the climax
- 6:42wouldn't be as powerful but I think that
- 6:43leads perfectly into the next section of
- 6:45the video Okay cool so go ahead and
- 6:47click script mode
- 6:49sweet okay and so now for each of those
- 6:52sections we just each of those outline
- 6:54sections we made now we can write the
- 6:55script lines form that's cool so now
- 6:57that we know what we're building towards
- 6:59how do we create tension along the way
- 7:01listen what's the only reason that
- 7:04you'll stop watching a YouTube video
- 7:07only if it's boring so pacing keeps that
- 7:09viewer engaged and so what's the number
- 7:12one easiest way that every YouTuber can
- 7:15start improving their pacing start
- 7:17cutting cut all those unnecessary lines
- 7:19you got to be ruthless like every single
- 7:22second of your script should build your
- 7:24intro to the climax and if it doesn't
- 7:27contribute cut it out every story is
- 7:30collapsible to some degree if you're not
- 7:32taking out 10% you're not trying very
- 7:34hard why take 20 minutes to say
- 7:36something when you can say it in five
- 7:38anytime I build anticipation for what's
- 7:40to come next or should I say open a loop
- 7:43I create tension in my video because the
- 7:45viewer just like has to close that Loop
- 7:47and this constant opening and closing of
- 7:49Loops is just the essence of captivating
- 7:51writing what makes surfing thrilling is
- 7:54carving up and down the face of the wave
- 7:56so rather than writing your viewers
- 7:58emotions Flatline try to peek up and
- 8:01down the full spectrum of emotion make
- 8:03them scared make them laugh make them
- 8:05angry relieved happy sad crushed nervous
- 8:08joyful how can we make this like an
- 8:09emotional intro I want to talk about
- 8:12sleepless nights and not knowing what
- 8:13happened I remember
- 8:15pacing the floor and pulling my hair out
- 8:20trying to figure out what went wrong I
- 8:25could say like this really mattered to
- 8:27me if we say this really mattered to me
- 8:30that doesn't really open up that much of
- 8:32a loop by the end of this video
- 8:38finally
- 8:40provide you with closure you seek this
- 8:44sounds really cool so much better than
- 8:47just going into the reasons after saying
- 8:49hello this is a script that has built
- 8:52it's awes this has build and if you keep
- 8:54this up this will have fantastic tension
- 8:57too you open Loops you start with an
- 8:59intro the whole point of your video is
- 9:02building to the one killer Point how to
- 9:05get closure through understanding what a
- 9:07gift a good writer is to be able to
- 9:09accentuate and help us Savor all the
- 9:12positive and negative emotions that God
- 9:14wants us to feel in this life but all
- 9:16these tactics be it pacing tension Loop
- 9:18opening cutting and editing flow
- 9:20naturally because we had a good outline
- 9:23a structure for our writing to flourish
- 9:25if you want a killer script to blow up
- 9:27your channel what's the one killer Point
- 9:29You're Building towards and how are you
- 9:31creating killer tension along the way
- 9:33anyone can learn this and that's what's
- 9:34so cool like it's not just some special
- 9:36trait that you have or you don't no
- 9:38one's naturally born good at this and
- 9:40that's what makes this so fun is you
- 9:42just keep practicing and improving and
- 9:44seeing your skills get better there's
- 9:46one critical part of this function that
- 9:47I left out it's invisible and if there
- 9:50ever was a secret this is it what are
- 9:53the YouTube videos we really enjoy it's
- 9:56the ones where the Creator fell in love
- 9:58making it what like life can you bring
- 10:00to your script what gift is given to you
- 10:02so that you can enjoy it yourself and
- 10:03share it with your family your community
- 10:05and your country I can't tell you how
- 10:07many times I'll write a draft for one of
- 10:09my scripts and I'll struggle with it
- 10:11it'll be overly complex and I just not
- 10:13having a good time making it and then
- 10:15I'll go to sleep and then I'll wake up
- 10:16the next morning and suddenly it hits me
- 10:18that I wasn't having fun with it so yeah
- 10:21from a marketing perspective I try to
- 10:23pick video topics that you'll click on
- 10:25and that you'll watch but it's really
- 10:27hard for me to make a video that I'm not
- 10:30in love with hundreds of you have been
- 10:32asking where I'm at why I'm squandering
- 10:34my YouTube potential and that's true I
- 10:36definitely should have been making
- 10:37videos the last year but I feel really
- 10:39different since the last time I made a
- 10:41video I feel like I've died and been
- 10:45reborn I used to be so obsessed with
- 10:47productivity and accomplishing goals and
- 10:50all these skills that I could learn to
- 10:51improve myself and now rather than
- 10:53trying to escape from life I'm learning
- 10:56that I can escape into life I see all of
- 10:58the good that life has to offer and I
- 11:01can't get enough of life now something
- 11:03or someone is redeeming me and I feel
- 11:05like I get to savor all the pain and joy
- 11:07life has to offer Rich pain and Rich joy
- 11:11and believe it or not this isn't
- 11:12entirely off track because your script
- 11:14should help people feel pain and joy and
- 11:16everything in between so sorry I've been
- 11:18gone so long but just know that I've
- 11:20missed you and yeah let's get back to
- 11:22killer YouTube Scripts
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