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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. It helps to be detailed in this section, but you may want to leave some room for flexibility if you find that one part doesn’t work so well during shooting. Don’t Forget Audio. Be Genuine.

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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

Collaborative storytelling refers to working with a team, sometimes distributed, to produce video. Some production teams will use storyboarding, but a production grid is helpful for teams that don't have illustrative or design skills. Working with Remote Collaborators. The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Campaign.

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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

After walking around town, we discovered that one of the bachelors, Todd Basilone, owner of Mountain High Pizza Pie, was at work. 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. Some Tips.

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

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I made a few tests to see how it might work I also got some advice from Jon Udell. 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 recently read a blog entry by Jon Udell.

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Technorati Tag Bookmarklet: The Screencast

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Marshall has a great post about a technorati tag bookmarklet that can save you a lot of grunt work. There are lots and lots of bookmarkets around, some good, some bad, and some designed to work specifically with Web2.0 Now, thanks to Marshall, you don't have edit so it is even less work. and needed a small project.

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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.) My work flow. I created a storyboard with small scenes.