joanne littlefield director, outreach and engagement

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

Joanne.Littlefield@colostate.edu◦ (970) 980-5880 (cell)

www.ext.colostate.edu/menustres.html#communication