Today’s eLearning developers are building content in a world of streaming multimedia, YouTube, and the blending of traditional media with web media. New styles of video production and video engagement are being developed to meet the needs of eLearning developers, giving them options about producing video on tiny budgets, with relatively little technical expertise, and on short timelines. Meanwhile, many of the classic strategies of video production still apply today, and the standard questions about bandwidth, file size, compression, and video CODECs always come up.

Course Description:

Our goal in this course is to empower you to shoot, edit, and distribute your training video content online. In this session, participants will learn about all aspects of production of video content for learning. Topics will include:

• Equipment and studios
• Minimum equipment: iPhone and mic
• Studios on various budgets
• Basic studio setup
• Pre-production: Video production planning
• Strategies for authentic, low-production value video
• Storyboarding for training
• Eliciting content from SMEs and interviews
• Typical video production project management overview

Hands-on: Storyboard your video

• Production: Shooting for production
• Becoming the director
• Camera handling and image composition
• Recording pro-quality audio
• Sets and lighting

Hands-on: Shoot your video

• Post-production: Editing your production
• Handling your files and staying organized
• Cutting your video on the Premiere Pro editing deck
• Bringing in computer graphics, cutaway shots, and music

Hands-on: Edit your video

• Distribution
• CODECs, resolution, bitrate, and compression for mobile streaming
• Export standards for online and mobile videos
• Streaming hosts and their services

Hands-on: Export and upload your video

Course Objectives:
Although it’s becoming ever easier to create video content, producers who understand the challenges (and sometimes advantages) of low production values and high engagement online video will have a significant leg up in engaging their increasingly multimedia-saturated and mobile learners. They’ll be capable of supervising video productions, and ultimately more competent at using the modality of film for instilling behavior change among their learners.

Our objectives will be to:

• Recognize new learning opportunities afforded by modern online video style (particularly low production values)
• Understand the video and audio challenges of the “small screen” as opposed to the “big screen”
• Be ready to shoot video in a style anticipated by today’s learners
• Learn the process of editing a video built for training
• Master the ever-present technical challenges of streaming, file types, and bitrate

Syllabus

The following topics are covered:

SESSION ONE: Tuesday, September 15

Synchronous Web Session via Adobe Connect
Introduction to video production and direction methods

SESSION TWO: Tuesday, September 22

Synchronous Web Session via Adobe Connect
Equipment, studio setup, and preparing for the conference

SESSION THREE and FOUR: Sunday, September 27 & Monday, September 28

Face-to-face in Las Vegas, Nevada

SESSION FIVE: Tuesday, October 20

Synchronous Web Session via Adobe Connect
Video review practicum: Show off your production!

Who Should Attend:

Novice and intermediate VILT designers, developers, managers, and project managers with a basic understanding of mobile.

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Pricing:

$1195.00 USD: Rate for Associates and Non-members
$995.00 USD: Rate for Associates and Non-members with DevLearn Registration
$956.00 USD: for eLearning Guild paid members
$756.00 USD: for eLearning Guild paid members with DevLearn Registration

Learn more about other registration discounts for which you may qualify.

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Dates & Times:

• Tuesday, September 15: Live online training from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PT
• Tuesday, September 22: Live online training from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PT
• Sunday, September 27: In-person training (DevLearn 2015 Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada) from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM local time
• Monday, September 28: In-person training (DevLearn 2015 Conference, Las Vegas, Nevada) from 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM local time
• Tuesday, October 20: Video review practicum from 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM PT

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Instructor:

Ty Marbut is an independent producer, director, editor, and adviser of instructional multimedia productions and documentary film. Focusing on training principles drawn from his own and others’ research about multimedia pedagogy in the field of cognitive psychology, Ty works with teachers and teams in higher education, private companies, and government to deliver their message as effectively as possible through multimedia immersion, high level-of-processing interaction, and the efficient use of existing media and human talent. His specialty areas include instructional video production and direction, training others in video production, video for Millennials, and interactive video pedagogy.

Additional Information:

Duration: This blended course combines two live virtual instructional sessions, a two-day face-to-face workshop, and one live virtual review practicum.

Class Size: Class size limited to 24.

Prerequisites: This workshop provides an intermediate level of training in video production. Participants do not need to have substantial experience in video production, but some background with cameras, teaching and education, or eLearning would be helpful.

Requirements: The live online component of this Guild Academy course uses Adobe Connect 9—more info. For the face-to-face component, students will need to bring a laptop computer, headphones with standard headphone plug, and Adobe Premiere Pro CC free 30-day trial. Installation of Premiere will be covered in the online session before the conference.

Other technology needs: Participants are invited to bring anything that records video. This could be anything from an iPhone to a DSLR or pro camcorder. Please also bring whatever is necessary to transfer files from your device to your computer if you choose to bring a camera.