Joanne Littlefield Director, Outreach and Engagement

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 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 ( 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

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