It happens every year. We wait for Halloween for months, and then suddenly it’s only a week away. Now you’re scrambling around, looking for content to stay on trend and grab people’s attention. Lucky for you, you’ve come to the right place! We’ve got five easy Halloween videos for you to create.
Costume Reveal 🧛
Get all dolled up and show off your Halloween costume a little early. People are still looking for costume inspiration so your video is sure to do well. Or take that trend and run with it by sharing some costume ideas! These can be costumes you’ve done in the past or ones you’ve kicked around before.
If you’re planning to post some past costumes, take part in our #CostumeComeback trend! Create a slideshow sharing your best costumes from Halloween’s past using our Add Yours and the hashtag #CostumeComeback.
Scary Recommendations 👻
Some of the easiest Halloween videos to make are recommendations. Whether you’re into podcasts, horror movies, or thriller novels, create a video where you share a few of your favorites. You can make this a series, or do a few one-off videos. All you need for an interesting recommendation video is:
- A good hook. Grab our attention from the beginning.
- A picture of the cover or poster of the thing you’re recommending.
- A quick summary. Not much, just enough to entice us!
- A description of the kind of viewer that would enjoy it.
If you’ve got these, you can probably film and edit a few recommendation videos in one day.
Halloween Decor 🕸️
Show us some of your Halloween decorations! You don’t have to make any new ones or vlog putting them up. We just want to see the final product. You can either put together a montage of every room in your house, show us your handmade decorations, or give us a tour of your favorite room’s decorations.
If you have the supplies or time, find a few tutorials and try to recreate them. This can be a little more time-consuming and might not be a quick fix, but viewers will love watching you try your hand at “easy” DIYs. And they’ll love your reactions if things aren’t as easy as you were led to believe.
Spooky Story Time 🐦⬛
Sit down and tell us some Halloween-themed stories! With a good opening hook and some editing, your storytime can be anything spooky season-centric. Not sure what stories you want to tell? We’ve got some ideas!
- Tell a few ghost stories! You can share some from your friends and followers, or grab a few from online. Just be sure to give the original poster credit.
- Share a Halloween memory. It can be something nostalgic from your childhood, a wild memory from your party years, or a random memory you have. Who doesn’t love a trip down memory lane?
We recommend scripting your story ahead of time so it’s easy to tell when you start recording. That will make editing leaps and bounds easier, too!
Pumpkin Carving 🎃
Carving pumpkins is the most iconic, all-age-appropriate Halloween activity. And you don’t even have to be artistic to do good at it! Swing by a grocery store (or pumpkin patch, if you’ve got one) and find the best pumpkin. Then vlog the decoration process! You can stick to a good old-fashioned (and quite messy) carving, or try your hand at painting it instead. You can make it more entertaining by giving yourself a challenge. Like…
- Set a timer and try to get done in that time!
- Try to decorate a pumpkin to look like your pet.
- Recreate a classic painting on your pumpkin.
- Carve or paint your favorite Halloween icon in your pumpkin.
You can even vlog your whole pumpkin carving experience! Take us with you while you find the perfect pumpkin and start the process. People love a transformation process, especially if it’s a novelty like a pumpkin. Plus, with a good dose of your personality, it’ll feel like we’re FaceTiming!
No matter what Halloween videos you create this season, be sure to use #Halloween and #SpookySeason on Clapper. We want to see all your spooky content. 🧡