Ooh and one more thing that I forgot to mention that a friend has just reminded me of.  A useful resource I came across when working through creating the videos was You Tubes audio library! Now, I may be slow on the catch up here but I never realised they had one!! I’ve been creating my videos, working out the length of them, then typing in the ‘feeling’ I want the video to portray – sad, upbeat, scary etc and then looking for a track that comes up in the search results that fits time wise and choosing one of those. So far this seems to have worked well. They’re all free and only some of them ask for you to credit the artist in your video description. The site is here if anyone would like to have a go: https://www.youtube.com/audiolibrary/music

Thank you so much @xbobby I really appreciate it. You are very kind.

The completed video for module 4 –

https://www.dropbox.com/s/8c35z6o1xm439qz/the%20snake%20pit.mp4?dl=0

I’m on a roll now! lol 😉

Thank you @bradleytmorris and @Chris G I really appreciate your support and encouragement!

I have done a couple of videos with me in them Bradley, but I’m holding back from sharing them yet until the rest of the stuff they support is done. I have one of me for the sale page (as I figured that was better than just a profile photo’ and one of me after students complete the free module one.

As for the stock footage I got a lot from videoblocks last year. They kept doing a months free trial where you could download 20 or so videos per day for a month and wouldn’t pay anything for them if you cancelled your trial before the month end. I went in and took advantage of this months trial several times over with different email addresses and my list of topics and ideas for my videos so I could get as many clips as possible for when I came to make the videos. Not sure if they were doing these trials before they changed their name to storyblocks? I also get a lot of my videos from pixabay too.

Chris! I absolutely love the idea of yours to add ‘elephants are strong and so are you’ genius! Thank you so much for sharing that thought. I shall definitely go back and adjust to fit that in! I do want to make the videos intense, but I dearly hope I haven’t overstepped the mark. They do lighten up as people progress through the course, and I change the colours and brighten everything up as they journey through so it’s all a psychological change they are creating as well as watching! (hopefully)

I’m of the mindset now to get this done. I’m a terrible perfectionist and have always known I need to reign that side of myself in in order to achieve and then I watched this little video on thrive themes and it really stuck with me, made something switch in my mind and think ‘that’s it, enough’ – no more learning, tweaking, fiddling – just ship it out and THEN fiddle to do upgrades’ so that’s the non perfectionist path I am following for now and so far it seems to be working.

The Thrive video basically talked about failure to ship and how most businesses fail because they carry on working and fiddling and perfecting trying to create a top notch job and never end up getting there – they never ship. Instead, get it out there, see what works and what doesn’t and THEN fiddle lol! I think it went something like this: ” Your chances of ever creating something great can be predicted based on your ability to deliver something simple’ – I now have that quote stuck to my notice board cheering me on! lol

So today I have had a nightmare day creating another video . I struggle with making videos because of my laptop. It is a good enough laptop but very basic. When I run filmora on it everything else goes 10 times slower and when I try to create videos it doesn’t play properly within filmora. So, for instance, I can put all the clips together and then add the music. Play it back in filmora to see how the timings work out and although the timeline shows me the music track should end at the end of the video clips, when I play it back the music jumps and stutters and finishes half way through the videos!! So I have to export it all as an mp4, close filmora, watch and listen to it, then open up filmora again to make my adjustments (and filmora takes a good 5-10 minutes to open up each time) It’s a bloomin nightmare and when I eventually make some money I will be treating myself to a new one that can handle video editing that’s for sure!

Anyway, so for today, I shall share the next video in the sequence which is Mountain Leap. I would have dearly loved to have made the pile of cigarettes start to fade to grey as it disappears backwards but I just don’t know how to do that. We use the technique of moving things back and fading them to grey in hypnosis and so I wanted to bring this into the video. Please note I am aware of the error on the text and that it should be ‘into’ rather than ‘in to’ lol I just haven;t got around to changing it yet

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6v1b8d1a647tax4/mountainleap4.mp4?dl=0

Thanks again for the support guys!

Ah, thank you @xbobby now that’s very interesting! I shall have to have a try and see if there is something as simple as that to help my problem with Filmora – I do hope so! Thanks very much for sharing that tip!

and thank you very much @mars I really appreciate it and oooh really!?! What a small world indeed! How bizarre and amusing – isn’t that just so lovely! I bet he would be thrilled if the amazing lady that delivered his baby used some of his music!!

So, the next video in the story of Nicotraz is Waterfall Wash. As you can see, the colours and tone have now changed as people are coming to the end of their escape plan and I try to instil more vibrancy and hope for a better future. No more fear and veiled threats now – in the beginning I use the stick, in the end I use the carrot! 😉

https://www.dropbox.com/s/a69kkg5372pxapv/waterfall%20wash2.mp4?dl=0