Content Creation University
Auditing
YT-301 YouTube track Year Three YouTube Track

Long-Form Content Design

Structuring tutorials, vlogs, and video essays. Chaptering, watch-time architecture, endings that feed the next video.

Lectures
8
Total runtime
4h 3m
Attendance minimum
2h 2m

Lecture Playlist

Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.

  1. Master Class in Visual Storytelling, Led by Dr. Zuberoa Marcos Designing an explanatory video: turning a subject into one idea an audience can be carried through Yale University 1 Ivy League 64 min
  2. Story Structure and Scenes​ with Documentary Filmmaker Perri Peltz '82 Structuring a vlog or documentary from raw footage: three acts, scenes, and character Brown University 1 Ivy League 66 min
  3. Day 4: Storyteller's Toolkit Pt. II: Visual Storytelling; Part 2: Storyboarding (20.219) From script to sequence: storyboarding as the structural blueprint of a long video MIT OpenCourseWare 2 Peer institution 88 min
  4. What's the Ideal Video Length? | Master Class #1 ft. Today I Found Out Runtime and rhythm: how long a piece should run, and how often to publish YouTube Creators 3 Platform official 6 min
  5. An Insider's Guide to Satisfaction on YouTube! What long-form is actually optimized for: satisfied watch time, not minutes Creator Insider 3 Platform official 9 min
  6. How to Add Chapters to Your Videos Using Timestamps Chaptering: turning structure into navigation the viewer can see YouTube Creators 3 Platform official 1 min
  7. Tools to Drive More Views | Master Class #4 ft. Carina Fragozo Endings that feed the next video: playlists and end screens as session design YouTube Creators 3 Platform official 4 min
  8. Practicum · working creator F for Fake (1973) - How to Structure a Video Essay Structure as the working essayist's problem: taking a finished nonfiction work apart to see how its parts were ordered Every Frame a Painting P Practitioner 5 min

Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Every Frame a Painting — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.

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