The creator, while applying her makeup, argues that successful daily vlogs depend on strong storytelling in the voiceover, not an exciting life. She critiques the common mistake of simply narrating on-screen actions and instead advocates for telling a separate, personal story to build community. To illustrate her point, she presents and analyzes a viral vlog from another creator (Camila) as a case study, showing how the voiceover's story is unrelated to the visual actions but highly effective. She concludes by emphasizing that crafting a compelling voiceover requires time and effort, such as outlining and multiple takes, to create high-quality content.
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Your life isn't too boring for a daily vlog. You're just a really bad storyteller. In daily vlog, you honestly don't have to do anything interesting in order for it to go viral and target your ideal audience. Like, the most popular format for a day in the life is filming a ton of clips and then putting them all better, then filming a voice over at the end of the day. I just cracked my concealer. You're thinking that recording these clips throughout your day is gonna be the hardest part about a daily vlog, but in reality, it's all in the voice over. I used to fall victim to this, and I know a lot of people do it where you literally just sit down, do one take for the voice over, and then that's it. You just kind of spew a ton of thoughts out, and you're alright. Ready to upload. I've been doing this all day. I'm ready. Just upload it. When in reality, the voice over worse the most important part if you're trying to connect to your community and build an audience. You shouldn't be narrating what's happening on the screen, but telling a tier, telling something that happened to you, and it doesn't even have to be related to any of the clips that are on the screen. I'm gonna show you an example. Camilla is one of the best storyteller vlog type creators that I see on this app. She's also one of my friends. And so let's look at this video that got 1,500,000 views and see why she did a really good job with the voice over. Alright. So if we're just looking and watching this vlog, I sped it up so you guys can better the best, but she's just kinda showing a day in her life, normal routine. And a lot of you guys would be like, alright. To buy makeup. Alright. I got dressed. Alright. Now we're gonna do, like, my I'm gonna take my greens now. Alright. Let's do that. No. She's not saying any of that in the video. She's not addressing anything that she's really doing, to be honest. In this video, she's talking about how her and her boyfriend have different sleeping schedules and how she used to think of it as a bad thing, and now she thinks of it as a good thing because now she gets the morning to herself. She's telling a story. How many times do I have to say people have eyes, they can see your content, they want to get to know no. Your voice over is the opportunity for you to share your personality, share any funny jokes you have, share any insights that you have, and actually build that community connection. That means creating your voice over is going to take tier. You're not gonna be able to do it in one take. You're probably gonna have to do multiple takes. Maybe you'll even have to write a little bit of an outline or brainstorm what you wanna talk about, but that's what goes into creating good content.