Week 4

Develop your own storyboard & video

1. Description of learning/instructional goal

This animated video has been created to provide a visual, intuitive, entertaining, user-friendly and informative version of the parenting article Are picky eaters made or born?, by the Egyptian Child Psychologist and Family Counselor Dr. Mona Youssri. I created this animated video last year after agreeing with the author on giving it a try to see if the audience prefer this format rather than the visual format of a text-based article.

The video has been created using Vyond and has been publicly published on youtube and shared among parenting communities. I have used the built-in narration feature to provide the voice-over.

Now, more than a year later and after this week's course content, I'm in a position to be my own critic. I would say that there are some features that could have been implemented in a better, more effective way. Some of them are:

• Breaking down the content to 2-3 clearly separate segments of 2-3 minutes each.
• I would have hired a professional narrator to avoid the mechanical voice ever.
• I would have displayed more "1-2 words" textual content to emphasize some important points.
• I would have completely avoided the use of long text.
• I would have made slightly longer pauses between the scenes.