how can i captivate my viewers for the whole video with out it getting boring?

Just keep a fun and enthusiactic personality. Nobody wants to watch someone saying "Hi, my name is Jeff and today i'm going to be playing some black ops 3" like they just lost their job. I'm learning to do this more and more with each video, just basically sound positive!
 
Keep it short and well edited. Cut out bits that don't move the video forward ("kill your darlings"). I was told to keep my videos between 2 and 3 minutes, because I'm a smaller YouTuber. It really depends on the type of video you're making though. If there is a lull in your video, your audience is going to lose interest, so keep the action/comedy/conversation captivating throughout.
 
Even without my voice in certain videos, I use a lot of music and sound effects to keep things lively and fresh. I have a series called Thief Sillybuggers where the comedy of messing around with a game's level editor is made funny through a bunch of editing. :)
 
Here's my reply from another thread on the same subject:

The key is pacing! This is basically how quickly and consistently you're delivering the goods! In YouTube this manifests mostly in how you choose to edit your video. How many shots you allow to linger on for several seconds.

On the other hand, it is entirely possible to have a thoroughly engaging and entertaining video that doesn't use lots of cuts, or even any at all. I can think of a couple youtubers that are so well-spoken and funny that they sometimes do a video in one take and it's not boring at all. Most of us aren't this talented though, and the longer we let shots linger, the more boring it becomes.

Stephen King once said "Kill your darlings." Sometimes it doesn't feel great to cut huge chunks of what we recorded, but that's often what it takes to end up with a tight, cohesive, well-paced video. (and I'm quite guilty of this problem myself, I assure you)

Good luck!
 
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