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613 Designing Videos with Effective Storyboarding Techniques

3:00 PM - 4:00 PM Thursday, October 21

Learning content developers often need to create clear and effective storyboards that will be used by video producers in the video creation process. Colleagues or contractors that produce these videos may lack expertise on the video's subject matter, so clarity in design documents is critical. How can you clearly depict the timing of an animated explainer video? How can you represent motion in a screen demonstration? What techniques can you use to minimize the rework that will be required through iterations of a video's production?

In this session, you'll learn how to design a video storyboard that provides a clear blueprint for your video producer. Using a three-column format in Microsoft Word, you'll explore how narration, visuals, and motion cues can be molded together with other guidance to give video producers actionable designs for the content you envision. You'll begin by exploring design steps and scoping techniques to ensure your design includes content that supports your learning objectives. Next, you'll learn how to build a storyboard for your video, using narration as its backbone. Finally, you'll see how the three-column format provides the structure to capture your video design exactly how it plays out in your head. You will learn how to use sketching as an asset and how to organize your visuals in PowerPoint, as well. You'll leave this session with a new technique for storyboarding that your video producers are certain to appreciate.

In this session, you will learn:

  • How to scope your video and meet your learning objectives
  • Why the three-column storyboard is the ideal format for designing learning videos
  • How to execute your design using narration as a guiding force
  • How to clearly depict visuals and their timing to narrated words
  • Why your storyboard is important for the execution of the voiceover
  • What tools are most effective in creating an actionable video storyboard
  • How to adapt your storyboard for different reviewers (from executives to individual contributors)

Technologies discussed in this session:

Diagrams.net (formerly Draw.io), Microsoft Word, PowerPoint

Derek Robinson

Senior Technical Online Course Developer

InterSystems

Derek Robinson is a senior technical online course developer with 10 years of experience in the software industry, the last seven of which have been focused on technical learning content. He designs and builds content enabling users to learn technical software concepts.

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