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ELC 005: How To Stop Making Boring Training Videos

A Conversation with Jonathan Halls

by Connie Malamed

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jonathan-hallsDo you get the impression that people think your training videos are boring? Do you wonder how to make training videos for employees that they will love?

Jonathan Halls, former BBC learning executive and author of Rapid Video Development For Trainers and Rapid Media Development for Trainers provides valuable tips on making training videos for the workplace. We discuss how to plan for an shoot engaging training videos.

Whether you’re new to video or have some experience, you’re sure to benefit from Jonathan’s knowledge.

Rapid Video Development book

 

WE DISCUSS:

  • When video is effective for learning
  • How to make talking heads “less boring”
  • Two purposes of B Roll
  • How to use the visual language of video
  • Benefits of creating storyboards
  • Message layers in video
  • Common newbie mistakes
  • Frequency of changing shots
  • Uses for instructional video via social media
  • Considerations when shooting video for mLearning
  • Five functions your video camera should have
  • Complete video setup for $500

TIME: Around 35 minutes

TRANSCRIPT: Download the ELC 005 Podcast Transcript.

RESOURCES:

  • Rapid Video Development for Trainers by Jonathan Halls
  • Rapid Media Development for Trainers by Jonathan Halls
  • Jonathan Halls & Associates

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Comments

  1. Connie Malamed says

    June 6, 2013 at 6:37 am

    It works now, thanks!

  2. Francisco Rodriguez says

    April 11, 2013 at 1:07 pm

    Hi there, I think the link for “Rapid Video Development for Trainers ” its missing, probably the link its not right, thanks in advance 🙂 … and thanks for the amazing info.

Trackbacks

  1. making videos for church | the road says:
    April 28, 2014 at 9:39 pm

    […] Videos can also be very intimidating. They require at least some knowledge of how to work a video camera (of some sort), access to and knowledge of video editing software, and a certain level of creativity that can appear daunting at first. I myself have created two videos in the past two years, so I understand these fears and concerns. But, as I discussed with my last post, we have to be willing to learn in order to better our church. This is why I recommend a podcast entitled “How to Stop Making Boring Videos with Jonathan Halls,” which can be found at https://theelearningcoach.com/podcasts/5. […]

  2. Flipped Teaching | Pearltrees says:
    July 30, 2013 at 2:48 pm

    […] ELC 005: How To Stop Making Boring Videos […]

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