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James Allen says online course creators don't need cameras or crews. Film a quick intro and outro with your face, then deliver the rest through slides or screen recordings. Spend money on a good microphone instead, around $25 to $50.

James Allen says online course creators don't need cameras or crews. Film a quick intro and outro with your face, then deliver the rest through slides or screen recordings. Spend money on a good microphone instead, around $25 to $50.
You don't need a big production crew. You don't need expensive cameras. You don't even need to be on camera for the majority of your course. You should at least have a video of you with your face on the very first, like, welcome video and a closing remarks or an ending video. When I make a course, it's all slide decks or screen shares, and it's kind of the nature of what I teach though. If you are more of a fitness instructor or you're teaching a sport or something like soccer, you are going to need to be on camera more because you're going to be teaching people how to actually move and do specific thing. If you're just doing a teaching where it's just kind of like the ideas behind something, it's giving them that information, inspiring them. You can do all of that in slide decks. If you do do slide decks, invest in a good mic. It can be anywhere from $25 to $50. Solid.