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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. Video production tools have a lot to offer in terms of animations, transitions, audio settings and much more. storytelling tsdigs digital storytelling Atomic Training tsatomictraining'

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Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Storytelling Recap

Tech Soup

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Campaign. Some production teams will use storyboarding, but a production grid is helpful for teams that don't have illustrative or design skills. The site allows users to upload content — video, audio, and images — and invite others to put the pieces together.

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In Search of Bachelors and Philanthropy in Rural Alaska and Video Story Capture Tips

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

If the latter, I have a storyboard in my head and edit as I go. Shoot close to your subject so the audio doesn’t suck especially when using a camera with built-in mic. That was four years ago when I was shooting video with my inexpensive digital camera and using the free program in Windows, MovieMaker to create videos.

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The instructions from Digital Inspiration were fantastic, but I made a few newbie mistakes that took me more time and were a little frustrating: 1.) I originaly produced this at 800x600 as a SWF with highest quality audio/video and the resulting file was a whooping 72,000 KB. I created a storyboard with small scenes.

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Tips for Taking a Tech-Fueled Approach to Nonprofit Training

DNL OmniMedia

Beyond engaging visuals and examples, however, you can also increase interactivity with hands-on activities such as audio review, sliders and dials, sorting and labeling, and more. It’s also easier to collect and manage data on the effectiveness of digital training. And last, but not least? You’ll save time and resources.

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Adobe Premiere Elements 15 vs. Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Tech Soup

Both Premiere Elements and Premiere Pro CC allow you to sequence clips, add audio (like narration and natural sound), include transitions, manipulate color, and add titles. Premiere Pro CC adds more features on top of these basics, including support for more video, audio, and image file formats and more tools and utilities. Keyframing.

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Adobe Premiere Elements 14 vs. Adobe Premiere Pro CC

Tech Soup

Both Premiere Elements and Premiere Pro CC allow you to sequence clips, add audio (like narration and natural sound), include transitions, manipulate color, and add titles. Premiere Pro CC adds more features on top of these basics, including support for more video, audio, and image file formats and more tools and utilities. Keyframing.

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