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5 Tips to Effectively Tell your Story with Video

Tech Soup

Start with drawing up a simple storyboard. Your storyboard can help you come up with a list of scenes, camera shots, and props you will need. These 5 tips from Atomic Training can help you get on your way to producing effective videos.

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Video Is A Must For Your Organization’s Content Strategy

Connection Cafe

What would you rather do: Watch Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom in a movie theater, or flip through the storyboards? I know the storyboards seem pretty cool, but if you have to choose just one, you’d probably watch the movie. Why we love video.

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How Nonprofit Staff Training Is Evolving Due to COVID-19

Top Nonprofits

Movie streaming services, family members and pets, and noisy neighbors all add up to one thing— limited time and attention to dedicate to e-learning during COVID-19. One of her favorite things to do in the e-learning world is jump in with a client to write a storyboard that is creative and application-based.

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Will this video editing software also do my laundry?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

A) The Hollywood Movie B) Home movies to document something important. But now I'm challenged to create a screencast equivalent to a home movie with half-decent production values and that can be made quickly and without a huge investment of time. After thinking about this for a while, I boiled it down to two metaphors.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Screencasting (and the software) has three functions: storyboarding, production, editing. Some immediate reflections on screencasting while it is fresh in my head. I've been researching screencasting software. and needed a small project. I resorted to pen and paper for part 1 for this experiment.

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The Jing Project: Embed Screencasts Into Conversation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It was very liberating for me to create a screencast like this -- no storyboard, script, no retakes. The script can detect the Flash plug-in in all major web browsers (on Mac and PC) and is designed to make embedding Flash movies as easy as possible. It is very easy to use. You can capture and narrate in snap.

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I created a storyboard with small scenes. When the movie is done, I got back and do fine tuning: -edit out ums - not all of them. In the end, I decided to produce as a SWF at 640x480 size with second to highest audio/video quality. I'm wondering if it took a frustratingly long time for you to download? -My My work flow. Listen to it.