Creating Training Videos - Professional Quality With a Smartphone

LIKE FILM SCHOOL FOR TRAINERS! Film and edit effective training videos-using your smartphone.
Whether you're a facilitator, instructional designer, or L&D department of one, you don't need a fancy DSLR camera or film crew to create successful training videos. All you really need is a learning strategy, a good production plan, and a smartphone camera. Informed by his 30-year career in training and media, including his time as learning executive with the BBC, author Jonathan Halls is committed to best practices in video production that will actually help your learners to learn, and without a giant strain on your resources.
With straightforward and accessible language, in Creating Training Videos you'll get:
The intersection of media and learning research: Uncover how your videos can effectively provoke learning.
Best practices for instructional video: Create a smart outline for your instructional video, creatively use repetition, highlight schemas that are familiar to your audience, and more.
Visual grammar: Learn rules of film that you can put into effect immediately, like framing your shots and selecting the best shot sizes to more powerfully support learning.
Planning your pictures: Gain a practical framework for mapping out the elements of your video using storyboards, shot formulas, and narrative templates designed to meet various training needs. Understand how picture, graphics, spoken word, and more come together to tell your story.
Your videographer's toolkit: An honest discussion of essential gear, helpful gear, and the serious tools you might consider for your toolkit.
Filming with your smartphone: Learn how to best light, stabilize, and frame your shots using the tool you already have in your pocket.
Editing and workflow: Stitch shots together for a powerful final product that supports learning, no matter what software you decide to use (yes, even an app on your phone!), and workflow considerations that satisfy all of your stakeholders.

With 96 percent of organizations using video as a key modality for workplace learning and 62 percent of organizations posting video (for L&D and other purposes) to YouTube, the ability to produce video is a sought-after skill in the L&D world. Creating Training Videos teaches you step-by-step how to plan, film, and edit smart instructional content?using only a smartphone and without compromising quality and success.

Sommario

Acknowledgments
Introduction

Part 1. Video and Learning
Ch 1: The Case for Video
Ch 2: The Learning Formula
Ch 3: Supporting Learning Through Video
Ch 4: Best Practices for Training Videos

Part 2. Keeping Eyeballs on Your Video
Ch 5: Show, Don’t Tell
Ch 6: Visual Grammar
Ch 7: Narrative Structure
Ch 8: Planning the Pictures

Part 3. Tools of the Trade
Ch 9: The Videographer’s Toolkit
Ch 10: Filming With Your Smartphone
Ch 11: Editing Training Videos

Part 4. Workflow and Business Processes
Ch 12: The Rapid Video Workflow
Ch 13: Systems, Stakeholders, and Processes

Jonathan's Guide to Training Video Buzzwords
References
Index
About the Author
About ATD

**SME contributions between the chapters

Info autore

Jonathan Halls is an award-winning author and was named by GFEL in the top 100 Visionaries for Education in 2021. His books include Confessions of a Corporate Trainer (2019), Rapid Media Development for Trainers (2016), and Rapid Video Development for Trainers (2012). He also contributed to ATD's Handbook for Training and Talent Development, 3rd Edition (2022) and has written for publications including TD and Learning Solutions.

Formerly a learning executive at the BBC, Jonathan has close to 30 years of experience in media and training in 25 countries. Based in Washington, DC, he focuses on coaching and workshops for trainers, consulting and strategic support for learning managers and directors, and running workshops in digital media for learning. He's also an adjunct professor at George Washington University.

Riassunto

LIKE FILM SCHOOL FOR TRAINERS! Film and edit effective training videos—using your smartphone.
Whether you’re a facilitator, instructional designer, or L&D department of one, you don’t need a fancy DSLR camera or film crew to create successful training videos. All you really need is a learning strategy, a good production plan, and a smartphone camera. Informed by his 30-year career in training and media, including his time as learning executive with the BBC, author Jonathan Halls is committed to best practices in video production that will actually help your learners to learn, and without a giant strain on your resources.
With straightforward and accessible language, in Creating Training Videos you’ll get:

• The intersection of media and learning research: Uncover how your videos can effectively provoke learning.
• Best practices for instructional video: Create a smart outline for your instructional video, creatively use repetition, highlight schemas that are familiar to your audience, and more.
• Visual grammar: Learn rules of film that you can put into effect immediately, like framing your shots and selecting the best shot sizes to more powerfully support learning.
• Planning your pictures: Gain a practical framework for mapping out the elements of your video using storyboards, shot formulas, and narrative templates designed to meet various training needs. Understand how picture, graphics, spoken word, and more come together to tell your story.
• Your videographer’s toolkit: An honest discussion of essential gear, helpful gear, and the serious tools you might consider for your toolkit.
• Filming with your smartphone: Learn how to best light, stabilize, and frame your shots using the tool you already have in your pocket.
• Editing and workflow: Stitch shots together for a powerful final product that supports learning, no matter what software you decide to use (yes, even an app on your phone!), and workflow considerations that satisfy all of your stakeholders.

With 96 percent of organizations using video as a key modality for workplace learning and 62 percent of organizations posting video (for L&D and other purposes) to YouTube, the ability to produce video is a sought-after skill in the L&D world. Creating Training Videos teaches you step-by-step how to plan, film, and edit smart instructional content—using only a smartphone and without compromising quality and success.

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Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jonathan Halls
• Editore: American Society for Training and Development
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 09.04.2024, ritardato
• EAN: 9781953946966
• ISBN: 978-1-953946-96-6
• Pagine: 284
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Altro; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Altro; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Training, PSYCHOLOGY / Education & Training, COMPUTERS / Design, Graphics & Media / Video & Animation