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6 Video Marketing Tips For Nonprofits

NonProfit Hub

Storyboard It Out. Conducting research will help you develop an idea, after which it’s important to sketch it out in a storyboard. Don’t Forget Audio. Once you’re actually into the production stage, don’t forget to get quality audio for your video. A great, free resource for background music is the YouTube Audio Library.

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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.

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Nonprofits Live: Collaborative Storytelling Recap

Tech Soup

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. What will be required to create those shots.

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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. I usually reserve video capture for a special story or moment that absolutely can’t be told with text. Avoid ambient noise, find a quiet spot to shoot.

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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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NTEN and SalesForce Screencast: Learnings About the Interview/Documentary Approach

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

So that left me with a few hours of video and audio to edit and that's too much to do in Camtasia. Because the screencast is conversational, the screen doesn't have to exactly synch the audio. I got enough information to put together an outline and rough storyboard So, I had the overall structure for the 15 minute screencast.

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Flickr As Presentation Tool: Screencast #2

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 rendered ten different versions (6 in SWF with different audio sampling and video frame rates and sizes) and 2 in Quicktime and 2 in WMF.) I created a storyboard with small scenes. My work flow.