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Recording yourself, done properly
Writing about the awkward parts of talking to a camera on your own. Some of it is about LensFloat. Most of it would be true whatever you record with.
Why the sixth take is rarely better than the first
If you keep stopping three sentences in and starting again, the problem is usually not your delivery. It is that you are running four jobs at once and one of them has run out of room.
How to read a script and still look at the camera
Four ways to say written words to a lens without appearing to read them. The eyeline is the easy half, and pace is what gives most prompted video away.
Recording a course module in one sitting
Pick the length before you write, work out what shares the screen with you, and let the working out become the handout. Written for whoever is making the course alone.
The demo you give every week, recorded once
What to script and what to leave loose, how to prepare the account, and why recording it will show you what has been wrong with the demo all along.
The whiteboard that leaves with a handout
Explaining something by drawing it makes two useful things: the video, and the drawing. Almost every setup throws the second one away.
We will not make the video without you in it
Generated presenters are cheap and they work. A fair account of what they are good at, what gets lost when the person goes, and why we build the opposite.
Try it on something real
Open it, paste in something you have to explain this week, and read it through once. You will know inside a minute whether it helps.
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