✦Creative · 13 recordsStart a YouTube channel

The first videos are how you learn to make videos, and treating them as attempts to succeed is why most channels stop at four. The goal here is a count of published videos rather than any audience number, and the set-up is a one-off project so the ongoing work is only making them.

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Goal

Publish ten videos Month 6

Ten, before judging anything. The first few are the tuition.

Set it up once Week 4

Bounded, so the ongoing work is only making videos.

  • Decide what the channel is about, in one sentenceDo firstDay 5
  • Sort sound, which matters more than pictureDo firstWeek 3
  • Set up the channel itselfWeek 4

Make ten Month 6

On a cadence, published before they feel ready.

  • Publish the first videoWeek 6
  • Publish the fifthMonth 4
  • Publish the tenth, then look at the numbersDo firstMonth 6

Routines

  • Film or editweekly
  • Write down an ideaweekly
Skills
  • Video productionBeginner → Intermediate

    Framing, pacing and editing all improve with repetition rather than with reading. Logged hours are the honest measure early on.

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The first videos are the tuition

They are how you learn framing, pacing and editing. Reading the numbers on video three tells you about your inexperience, not about the idea.\n\nThat is why the goal is a count of published videos and not an audience number, and why the numbers get looked at once, at ten.

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Start a YouTube channel, answered.

Ten, which is what this plan targets. The first several are how you learn framing, pacing and editing, and reading the numbers on video three tells you about your inexperience rather than about the idea.
A phone and decent sound. Audio matters far more than picture to whether somebody keeps watching, and the set-up is a bounded project here specifically so it does not become the hobby instead of the videos.
A cadence you can hold for ten videos, which for most people is fortnightly rather than weekly. Consistency is what compounds, and slowing down after promising weekly is more costly than starting slower.
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