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Video Tutor UK creates tutorial videos on a wide range of topics, with the 'accent' very much upon CLARITY and fullness.
Voice overs always use British English, and, most often a BBC accent.
VTUK videos are NOT designed to be especially 'exciting' - nor with the visuality of an 'American movie car chase'.
The videos we create are designed to deliver tutorial content and information in a manner that is clear, not boring, and capable of being listened to several times, until the topic is fully absorbed, without wilting from repetition of the basics.
In pursuit of this objective VTUK titles have one of two characteristics - or sometimes both:
BFTM
The most common, and typical, tutorial videos or courses are in a format we call the BFT (British Forces Teaching Method) method. Where the entire course divided into three parts:
- First - we tell you what we are going to tell you.
- Second - We tell you it.
- Last - We tell you what we told you.
Despite its name and potential for derision, this is a surprisingly popular format.
In brief it allows the listener;
1. To play the FIRST video on TV, their computer, device or car radio.
It is more of 'a conversation' that sets out what the course is going to cover and how, than a 'tutorial' that needs to be remembered in detail.
Pre preparing the mind. Knowing what is coming.
2. The central CLASSROOM STUDY section can then go straight to the core of the subject in detail - delivering the topic knowledge - without frills or conjecture.
3. The last, REVIEW, section allows the listener (student, pupil etc) to hear 'what it is they should now know' - and - 'be conversant with' - if they have completed the learning process correctly.
Most tutorials require a couple of 'play throughs' at least to be fully grasped. Sometimes more.
The BFT method means that the student need only go back over the second section twice or more times. They can usually skip the first section.
The third section then tells them if they have absorbed all they should have and can put the topic down.
FULL FAT or SHORT SHARP
As well as the BFTM format, or instead of it, many VTUK tutorials - or individual lessons - that are parts of a fuller tutorial or course - come in both FULL FAT and SHORT SHARP versions.
At points during the course the student is offered the choice between going next to lessons that have been recorded in (at least) these two formats.
A SHORT SHARP format of a lesson is for someone who wants to get at the information quickly, though not necessarily in excruciating detail.
It is of course also useful for revision.
The FULL FAT lesson format is the normal detailed explanation of a topic, along with examples, and sometimes repeated examples.
Is our default.
In our experience, even very clever students, or those who learn fast, require highly detailed lectures or lessons to be available - in order that the learning process does not become 'bocked' becuase a 'penny has not dropped'.
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