tell me what you think of this video

[EPJS]

I started getting into making video tutorials, this is the second I ever made, BUT the first with audio. That's my voice you're hearing ;)

I wasn't sure if I should post it here or in the "clientside" forum. It's a video tutorial for CSS and how it interacts with HTML.

Tell me what you think:

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/484604/css_tutorial_video/

[leatherback]

Hey EPJS

At the mo I do not have the time to see the whole tutorial. In itself a good idea. However.. You seem to have to correct yourself every once in a while. You might want to re-record the audio for it, and do not think about who might be listening. Possibly, you could give the tutorial to a friend, and have the recorder run in the background. In my experience that gives the best results, as you are really talking to someone.

[dougal85]

Sounds like quite a good idea from leather back, however. If not you could write a script, or something that you could follow through. (if you didn't already).

Also who is your target audience?

but its looking pretty good :) I always thought PHP video's could do well if made properly. Similar to this sort of website http://www.learnvisualstudio.net/ (very good .net training videos)

[dartcol]

It starts off quite slow and a little confusing but it gets much clearer the more you watch - I watched the whole thing. Don't get me wrong though, I think it's a good effort and it's clear enough as long as you do stick with it. Thinking about your target audience is really important though. At the moment, I'd say that this is a little too quick for newbies but the CSS you show is pretty simple. You might need to break it down a little. Also, a task driven tutorial someone pauses and returns to works well.


I don't think you need to script every word, just having a good idea of the stages you need to do is enough. What you could do is record it in sections and then splice them together. Re-recording the audio would be easier too as you don't need to do the whole lot. I use Premiere to do this kind of stuff at work. We also use tools like Articulate to create menu driven e-learning. It packages powerpoints with audio and video as you want them. You lose the live typing (though you could easily import this once done in Captivate or somthing like that).