Things I learned from making a youtube video for Microsoft

  1. Product making and product marketing are completely orthogonal skills
  2. It takes a village to create a youtube video - everyone chips in, creates stories, adds diverse content
  3. A script with clear narration and accompanying picture (storyboard) is the edge in video making
  4. There's no point memorizing the script by heart, safe to say, have a minto pyramid of ideas and remember the ideas.
  5. Ums and ahs will not be resolved by memorizing - smooth oratory requires pauses+minto+confidence+rolling out skills - also called storytelling.