Black Friday Video - Not Perfect - But Proud I Pulled It Off

byElyta

592 followers

1 week ago

I Set Myself A Challenge.

When I was brainstorming ideas to promote Wealthy Affiliate for Black Friday I decided I wanted to try and create a video. I had no Idea how I was going to do it, but my stubbourness came through and I pulled it off.

I knew I didn't want to film myself directly, I am too shy and unsure for that - at least for now. But wanted to at least use my image to try and build trust.

So I decided to embrace the new AI world.

The Idea...

I asked a handful of the AI platforms to give me 10 creative Facebook ad ideas. I got plenty of good and bad, some overlapped and I plan to try some of those as well.

ChatGPT ended up winnind the challenge in the end, a "Future You Will Thank You" concept.

I loved it, something I thought would resonate with my potential audience.

ChatGPT broke it down for me scene by scene and provided me with a voiceover script.

Now What...

So, I had the blueprints, but how do I build it.

Enter WA's AI Image Studio.

I built all images around the scene by scene descriptions and my image.

Image studio did a great job with capturing what I wanted, (I few hiccups along the way, but I am still perfecting my prompting.)

Putting It All Together...

So I had all the puzzle pieces, now how to put it all together.

A whole lot of googling later, I settled on HeyGen. I could create a personal AI Avatar, Voiceover and a few free videos per month.

Only downside, a watermark, but that's what you deal with when you want to do it for free.

There were several templates to choose from, I eventually decided to build from scratch as it was a relatively simple project. Create your scenes, add your images and your avatar, preview, perfect and then you are ready export.

There was only one thing missing that I could get for free, subtitles. In a time of silent scrolling, probably considered a must have.

Enter Canva...

Canva very quickly took care of this problem, import your project and it automatically creates the subtitles to fit your video.

Time to Share...

I had to put aside my perfectionist nature to do this one. But I pushed my anxiety aside and clicked post.

But it is now live on Facebook, X and on a whim TikTok.

Results So Far...

It's only been live on Facebook for less than a day, boosted.

TikTok, this one surprised me, having zero followers and no other posts...

I am considering if it is worth boosting that for a bit and seeing what happens? If anyone has done that before I would love to hear about it.

Final Thoughts...

It's amazing what you can pull off with a little persistance and embracing the ever growing list of tools that are out there.

You never know what you can achieve if you just bite the bullet and try.

Would love to hear any feedback.....and any stories of what you have achieved that you didn't think was possible.