Joanne Littlefield
Director, Outreach and Engagement
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’llguide you in producing your own shorteducational 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 informationthat can be adapted for video production.
Videos streamed online should be no longerthan two to three minutes.
script
storyboards
b-roll
A three-minute script written in 12 point font willbe less than one page long.
Read the script out loud to time the length; onceyou do that you’ll know how to better rework thematerial and/or cut, for the spoken word.
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Shot listdeveloped
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 openand close
◦Avoid the use of music in bridge betweensequences
Natural sounds, recorded on location, can add interest
Add as appropriate to the topic
Next steps
◦Logging
◦Editing preparation
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