{"id":478,"date":"2017-03-30T13:21:41","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T13:21:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/?p=478"},"modified":"2017-04-05T14:04:19","modified_gmt":"2017-04-05T14:04:19","slug":"tips-for-making-engaging-videos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/tips-for-making-engaging-videos\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips for Making Engaging Videos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>1. Preparation: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Plan simple and right, saves time money and prevent issues.<\/p>\n<p>Practice a workflow. Keep things moving &amp; show what\u2019s missing.<\/p>\n<p>Know the goals, don\u2019t start without a declaring a destination<\/p>\n<p>Learn about your audience, who they are and design for them<\/p>\n<p>Create a storyboard. Plan exactly what you will record.<\/p>\n<p>Get feedback from multiple people.<\/p>\n<p>Gather assets before starting.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>2. Audio<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Record audio and match visuals to audio you have designed.<\/p>\n<p>Drink lots of water before recoding you own voice over.<\/p>\n<p>Test audio levels in different scenarios: Headphones, laptops, desk speakers.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>3. Production:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Keep clips short.<\/p>\n<p>Keep things moving, even little move draws focus.<\/p>\n<p>Speed up or slow down video clips for effects.<\/p>\n<p>Add transition and animation professionally.<\/p>\n<p>Add interests and draw viewer attention with annotation and text.<\/p>\n<p>Play with color and design.<\/p>\n<p>Use on screen text sparingly.<\/p>\n<p>Be kind and SEO smart. Add captions for accessibility &amp; SEO.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>4. Screen Casting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Setup user profile that is clean and ready. Keep your messy desktop messy<\/p>\n<p>Slow down cursor speed in your system settings.<\/p>\n<p>Hide pinned programs on your desktop or docs.<\/p>\n<p>While recording your browser, hide tools bars, bookmarks and anything else.<\/p>\n<p>Turn off notifications when recording your screen.<\/p>\n<p>Double check final dimensions. Don\u2019t make wrong sized video. Optimize.<\/p>\n<p>Close unneeded apps while recording and plugin your machine.<\/p>\n<p>Increase cursor size while screen casting.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. Preparation: Plan simple and right, saves time money and prevent issues. Practice a workflow. Keep things moving &amp; show what\u2019s missing. Know the goals, don\u2019t start without a declaring&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/tips-for-making-engaging-videos\/'>Read More <span class='screen-reader-text'>Tips for Making Engaging Videos<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,110],"tags":[151,150],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beginners-guide","category-elearning-platform","tag-engaging-videos","tag-videos","excerpt"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions\/485"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/360elearning.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}