Joanne LittlefieldDirector, Outreach and Engagement
http://issuu.com/rwillson/docs/video-production-handbook?viewMode=magazine&mode=embed
Short educational videos ◦ alternative educational tool ◦ viewed online or at workshops and trainings.
Increasing popularity ◦ YouTube and other social media◦ ‘short and sweet’ information
Step by step, with specific examples, we’ll guide you in producing your own short educational video.
What I’ll cover today◦ Ideas◦ Script◦ Shoot preparation◦ Legal issues
Next steps◦ Script development◦ Site scout◦ Props◦ Shoot day(s)◦ Logging◦ Editing preparation
CSU Extension fact sheets (www.ext.colostate.edu/pubs/pubs.html) offer a bounty of peer-reviewed information that can be adapted for video production.
Videos streamed online should be no longer than two to three minutes.
script storyboards b-roll
A three-minute script written in 12 point font will be less than one page long.
Read the script out loud to time the length; once you do that you’ll know how to better rework the material and/or cut, for the spoken word.
Shot list developed
Props needed
Next steps◦ Equipment
Microphone◦ Clip on
(laviliere)
Next steps◦ Site scout◦ Props◦ Shoot day(s)◦ Logging◦ Editing preparation
Narration vs field ◦ Get scripts to talent ahead of time
Photo releases Property releases if necessary
◦ Watch for backgrounds Props
◦ Avoid product placement
Music, etc.◦ Non-copyright, public domain possible for open
and close ◦ Avoid the use of music in bridge between
sequences Natural sounds, recorded on location, can add
interest Add as appropriate to the topic
Next steps◦ Logging◦ Editing preparation
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