1. Why Video for Education?
• Video surpasses the written word
• Seeing and hearing is better than reading or hearing and
reading
• Video stimulates emotionally
• Information is conveyed more successfully by
demonstrating
• Video is a compact, concise media
• Video is attractive (for GenerationX, Y, Z…)

2. Video Production
Let’s make a complex process simple
1. A familiar, engaging and learnful subject
2. Prepare an outline or “script”
3. Carry out research, collect the essential information
4. Record the material (images, screens, sound,
graphics…)
5. Edit the video
6. Publish the video

3. What do you need?
• Subject
• Time
• to prepare
• to record
• Location

4. Subject
Two main types
• An event organised by others or somewhat out of your
control over time and location
• football game, theatre play, live lesson
• a touristic video
• a vox populi
• An event under your control
• demonstration, fiction, presentation, animation, interviews

5. Good preparation
• Scenario (storyboard) or planning
• Location scouting
• Find/meet actors or experts, accessories ...
• Rehearse and practise

6. Scenario/storyboard
• See the film in your mind (role of video and of audio)
• Put the film on paper
• script, scenario, storyboard...
• Why is it important?
• Foresee: (4C)
• control during the recording (and editing!)
• content
• continuity
• cost
• Execute the recording (but don’t forget to prepare it!)

7. What do you need?
• Camera:
• DV (or best affordable) www.whatcamera.com / Video magazine
• web cam?
• Screen cam
• Photocamera…
• Tripod for video recording: safety first
Possibly also
• Additional microphone, headphones
• Additional batteries
• Lights

8. Good images
• Enough light and good light
• no dark, grainy images
• Use tripod
• jerky images make seasick and cost bandwidth
• Choose camera position and angle carefully

9. Free Screen Recording Software
• http://www.techsmith.com/jing.html
capture your screen for videos, add text boxes, arrows or rectangles to highlight
spots, record audio together with the video
• http://camstudio.org/
open source screen recorder software records all screen and audio activity on
computer, creates AVI or SWF
• http://www.advancity.net/eng/products/capturefox.html
Firefox add-on records screen frame by frame with voice and provides AVI output
• http://www.utipu.com/
screen recording with audio and video, AVI and FLV output, audio can be re-
recorded, trim beginning and end, zoom video to mouse cursor with smart zooming
and ability to draw free-style during recording
• http://www.debugmode.com/wink/
tutorial and presentation creation software, capture screenshots, add explanation
boxes, buttons and title, records voice, creates highly compressed Flash movies

10. Video Editing Tips 1
• Always shoot with the editing in mind:
• take different shots, close shots, wide shots, hold the camera
steady, film enough footage, you can always cut out later what
you don’t need.
• Work organized:
• if you are making a longer movie, prepare a storyboard up first.
Name your clips in your video editing software. Use the same
names as you use in your storyboard. If you don’t name your
clips you will end up with a heap of files and you will lose a lot
of time trying to find the footage that you are looking for.
• First assemble:
• Once you have your footage loaded into the editing software,
start with creating a “rough cut”: put the main footage you want
to use in chronological order in the time line.

11. Video Editing Tips 2
• Cut out the crap:
• trim the beginning and endings of each clip and cut out all the
unusable shots
• Tell your story:
• where can you add close ups? What shots can you add to
enhance the effect? Try out different things and notice the
impact, effect or feeling, the emotion that the video brings
across
• Take it easy:
• Your shots last at least between 2 and 10 seconds. Vary shot
lengths, some longer shots and then some shorter ones. Don’t
go for the stroboscope effect, MTV or boredom. In about 5
seconds, the human brain has seen most details of a picture

12. Video Editing Tips 3
• Add some effects:
• bring your audience into the movie, prettify your movie. Careful:
try to “feel” what different effects do to your movie, don’t go
crazy with flipping and twirling stuff, read the language of
movies
• Create intro, opening and closing titles:
• have a proper beginning and ending, black at the end of a movie
creates a dramatic effect. When a title follows black, the
audience can relax.
• Add music and sound effects:
• test different kind of music tracks for your video and “feel” the
difference. A good choice of music will enhance your video