Your video will only be valuable if the content that it covers is valuable. Lecture videos are best if they:
Storyboarding is a critical step in the process. Storyboarding goes beyond a simple back-of-the-napkin outline for the video. A video is only as good as its storyboard, which is the blueprint or guide for how you will produced your video.
On your storyboard you should have a very brief description of your script with the accompanying visuals that you will show. The visuals can be hand drawn. The idea is that each scene of your video should be captured on the storyboard.
When I storyboard I like to use a table with two columns--one column for the script and another column for the visuals. For instance, watch the following video on how to tie a tie and notice how often they change the camera angle. All of that had to be on a storyboard before they started filming.
Important! Your video will need to be between 4 and 6 minutes long. When you plan your storyboard, you should keep that in mind. Also, keep in mind the elements that comprise a quality video.
Before you begin creating your video, you need to complete the storyboard. Use this TEMPLATE or find your own storyboard template. Your storyboard needs to depict each important scene with a graphical image and a brief description of the narration/dialog for the scene (See Examples).You will share this with your colleague's and they will give you feedback (and vice versa).
Storyboard link is posted to this Padlet by: April 2, 2017, 11:59 pm
Provide constructive feedback to at least one colleague. Consider how your colleague could make improvements. Post your comment in the Padlet by; April 4, 2017, 11:59 pm
*Important! You need to check back to Padlet to review any comments you received from your colleagues. Adjust your storyboard with any of their suggestions that you find will help you improve your video. I'll ask you later to reflect on how you incorporated any of their comments.
Now that you've got a storyboard, it's time to start collecting and creating the media that you will use. This is sort of like going shopping for ingredients to make a cake. Make sure you don't shoplift and follow Copy right and Fair Use guidelines. There are a few categories of media that I would like to talk about:
Video
If you are filming make sure to follow the guidelines covered in Mods 4.3 and 5.3.
There are times when you want to use a short clip from a YouTube video. There are several ways that you can do it but here are two that I've found to work the best.
You can record the screen if you like using screencast-o-matic. It is an easy program to use and it works on Macs and PCs. Here are some tutorials to help you. Screencasts can add a nice element to your video. For instance you can use it to record Google Earth zooming into a city.
Music
Your video has to use background music at some point in the video, even if it only during the intro or credits. I highly recommend that you find music at freeplaymusic.com because then you can use the entire song if you like. You can use other music that you have obtained legally but you are limited to 30 seconds.
Images
Remember Creative Commons sources, which are often great places to get material you can use for free and without worrying about using less than 10%.
Once you've created and posted your storyboard to the Padlet, and you have improved it based on feedback from your colleagues, it's time to create and edit your video using iMovie (for Mac) or MovieMaker (for PC) or any other video-editing tool you prefer.
Probably the best way to learn how to use a program is to play with it. I would recommend just uploading some test video to the video editor and seeing everything that you can do with it. Additionally, I encourage you to Google how-tos or search YouTube for how-to edit. I've also created and gathered lots of tutorials to help you do specific things.
iMovie
iMovie is the free moviemaking tool that comes on the Macs and iPads. It is quite powerful and can do a lot of things and yet is pretty easy to learn. iMovie integrates easily with other Mac tools like iPhoto, iTunes, and iDVD. There are three versions of iMovie: iMovie 6, iMovie 9, iMovie 11. The following tutorials and instruction are for iMovie 11.
Vimeo created a great iMovie tutorial page. The video at the top of the page is about 10 minutes and goes over several different topics. They have also cut the 10 minute video into smaller clips at the bottom of the page which is nice if you are looking for something specific.
iMovie Tutorials that we made for a previous course.
Apple has also made lots of tutorials
MovieMaker
MovieMaker is a simple program that you may already have on your PC. If not you can download it here.
Vimeo created a great MovieMaker tutorial page. The video at the top of the page is about 10 minutes and goes over several different topics. They have also cut the 10 minute video into smaller clips at the bottom of the page which is nice if you are looking for something specific.
Dan Randall has made several tutorials to help you learn MovieMaker
MovieMaker on the PC – I have not tried all of these tutorials yet, but Atomic Learning is usually a good company for tutorials. You can probably find others on Youtube.
Your final edited video needs to include the following elements:
Your edited video project will be due after your spring break on April 16, 2017, 11:59 pm. See Mod 6.0 to complete this project.
When you are done with the materials in this section, move onto Mod 6.0.