Creating Video for Teachers and Trainers: Producing Professional Video with Amateur Equipment

Chapter 7

Your Assignment 1

Plan and write a script for a short video, approximately two or three minutes long (300 to 450 words of dialog).

Plan

• Describe the content and audience.
• State the purpose.
  • If the video script is part of a larger production, for example, a website, state the specific purpose of the video, but also describe how it fits the larger context.
• Design Considerations: First Principles, Problems
  • What is the problem your learners need to solve? What instruction do they need to solve the problem?
• Story and Character
  • What's the story? What characters will you need for your script?

Script

• Write a script in two-column A/V format that is consistent with the plan described above.

Instructors: It may help to make this two ...