027. The Five Levels of Storytelling on YouTube w/ Jeff Bartsch

Story Greenlight with Jeff Bartsch

How do you actually get a story out of your head and into a video on YouTube?

There are lots of ways to do it, but it’s easy to get confused and frustrated in the process.

Today Jeff Bartsch talks about the 5 levels of storytelling on YouTube, when to use them, and some tactics that ANYONE can use to raise their storytelling skills at ANY level.

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SHOW NOTES

00:00 Raising your storytelling skills on YouTube
01:02 Jeff’s journey storytelling in Hollywood
05:16 An introduction to the five levels of storytelling
07:24 Level One: Using a solo-talking head
08:43 The Master Story Framework
11:17 Level two: talking head with b-roll
11:23 What is b-roll? And how to use it
14:12 Storytelling technique: “See and Say”
14:45 Level three: scene work with a talking head
16:55 The advantages of using scene work in your videos
19:20 Level four: scene work breaking the fourth wall
21:04 Level five: scene work WITHOUT breaking the fourth wall
22:45 What is expositional dialogue?
25:27 How to apply the five levels of storytelling to your content
31:26 The rewards of applying these levels of storytelling
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