David Barnes @ Packt

Nov 29

Anatomy of a Training Video. First draft plan for each 3-5 minute Packt training video. I crave your feedback.

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This is my plan for how to structure a 3-5 minute “how to” training video. Each video will form part of a series of videos that makes up a course.

The structure ensures that:
  1. The reader gets a clear idea of what they’re going to achieve and why in the first 20 seconds.
  2. The instructional steps are clustered into logical groups, to make the steps more meaningful and memorable. And you have no more than 20 seconds before the steps begin.
  3. The video ends by reminding the viewer what they did and why it was worthwhile, and then encourages them to keep learning. Again this is just a 10-20 second wrap up.


I’m hoping this will make the videos more accessible and useful than a straight, unstructured “do this, then this” screencast. We’ll see…

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