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FILMING YOUR OWN CONTENT

In our studio we use Kino-Flo fluorescents. We use three of them to light the green screen. The

idea here is to keep the light even across the surface – no matter what type of light you are

planning on using. We also have additional lighting hanging from a the grid above, or lights on

stands to light the talent. When lighting a green screen you want to light the screen separately

from the talent, to ensure there are no shadows being cast onto the green screen from the

talent.

Now you may be using a wall that was painted, or a green screen fabric (all excellent options)

but remember to keep in mind that the surface should be as smooth and flat as possible to get

the best possible key in post.

You also might be filming with a green screen in a smaller space. It’s important to remember to

keep all limbs inside the frame. If, for example, you are really in the moment, passionate about

your topic and you gesture a little too expressively to the left and your hand goes into an area

outside of the green screen, your hand will be cut off. So be mindful of the size of your green

screen and your body movements.

Also important is the distance between the green screen and the talent. This helps ensure no shadows are hitting the green screen. If the talent is too close to the screen,

a green hue will sometimes appear on the talent’s skin, emanating from the green screen. We recommend a distance of 6 feet or more. All of the content should be

filmed/framed from the hips up. Course trailers are chest up.

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Okay. Let’s briefly talk about filming. For the best quality image, we recommend filming in 1920 x 1080 HD, also called 1080p. It’s important to remember that this footage will inevitably be compressed. So beginning with the highest quality image will make the compressed file look that much better. We set our shutter speed at 60 and shoot and edit at 29.97 fps (frames per second).

A very important aspect to keep in mind while filming your own content is audio quality. Professional boom mics and expensive wireless lavalieres aren’t always available or financially viable, but recording good audio greatly improves your overall production quality. Onboard camera mics don’t always record the best audio and tend to sound a little hollow – so if at all possible, we recommend a separate recording device whether it be a Zoom, Tascam, or an actual audio mixer. Or find a way to connect a microphone to the camera directly.

Let’s walk you through how to properly film interactive content because it is a little different. So for example, say you want to ask the question, “How much time do you want to spend today?” We need ten seconds of the talent standing there, casually waiting. They are waiting for the user to select a response. It’s important while filming to make sure there is a long enough hold or pause once the talent has stopped speaking. To make this look seamless in the System there are a few things we ask that you pay attention to. Once the talent asks the question they should go into a comfortable resting position; we’ll call this the home position. The talent can still move slightly but they keep their hands firmly in the same position. So once the talent has asked the question, they should go to their home position for the ten second hold, maintaining eye contact with the camera. Now for each response to the question – for example 5 minutes, 10 minutes, and All day – the talent should begin each response in that home position. Your editor will need these 10 seconds of the talent in this hold position after the interactive question has been asked, in order to create the endless loop.


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First and foremost we will need a training center outline. This gives us an idea of how you would like your content organized - from the general to the specific - starting with categories, then courses, and then chapters. You will provide that to us along with the finished files to be loaded into the system. The filenames need to adhere to a naming convention so we know what the files are and where they need to go. These filenames need to directly correlate with the training center outline. Your Main Menu Message, Carousel Panels, and Front Door Message need to be clearly labeled as such. mainmenumessage, carouselpanel_trainingcenter, frontdoormessage, for example. The courseware is going to be the same, just give us the course name underscore and the chapter. Let me give you an example. If your first course is titled “Sales” and it has a course trailer and 10 chapters, you would provide us 11 files labeled like this: sales_trailer, sales_ch01, sales_ch02, sales_ch03, sales_ch04 and so on. It’s as simple as that!

Now when editing the bulk of your content, we recommend that you keep the talent framed at about the hips up. This goes for all the different content types except for the course trailers, which are framed in camera at about the chest up. The course trailers are the frame size exception because the talent would appear very small in the course preview trailer player.

All courseware should begin and end with 10 frames of black. Also, a fade in at the beginning of the visible video and a fade out at the end should be added. Any text, logos or image assets that animate in the duration of the file is all up to you. We recommend a variety of assets that support teaching the content. It makes the chapter that much more engaging and gives the user a visual way to retain the information being presented.


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Let’s begin with filenames. Filenames are a little more tricky when it comes to interactive courseware. So to pull from our last example let’s say you’re submitting your first course and it is titled, “Sales.” In the first chapter the talent asks the question, “How much time would you like to spend today?” The user will then have three options: 5 minutes, 10 minutes and All day. The interactive files provided to us should be labeled like this: sales_ch01; sales_ch01_a_5minutes; sales_ch01_b_10minutes; sales_ch01_c_allday (coursename, the chapter number, option a, b, or c, and then the short description of the choice made). It’s as simple as that! All filenames need to correspond with the training center outline. There are a few more things to keep in mind while editing, we will use this footage as an example. The first file will fade in and notice when we get to the interactive question, there are our ten seconds of the talent holding and the file does not fade out at the end. The system will cross dissolve this into the next file – so each response to the interactive question should not fade in, in order to get this effect. It should though, begin with the last frame from the previous file. That makes the transition smooth and seamless once the files are loaded into the system. The last thing we need to cover are any buttons you want to come up or animate off of the screen will need to be added on your end. We use motion graphics to animate buttons but these can be added in a number of ways some as complicated as key framing images in your editing software or simply cross dissolving the image on and off screen.

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