Here at Morrisville we have been diving into the video tutorial format for a little over a year now, using Adobe Captivate software. The experience has been largely positive and we are actually currently redoing all of our tutorials made this past year, now that we have a new website. You could say I am knee deep in tutorials, both redoing old ones and planning for the new.
For this assignment I turned my gaze to an upcoming tutorial to explain usage for our EBSCO Discovery Service and a distant project to create a library tour.
EDS Tutorial Storyboard
Since the script for the EDS tutorial was already pretty much completed I decided on putting together a storyboard for it, and a storyboard for the library tour. I decided to lay out this first storyboard coinciding with the script and when the tutorial shifts to a new slide. Using a new background template that matches the color theme of the new website I went about first getting screenshots of all the webpages and searches that I would need for each slide. Once completed I did some cropping and threw the images over the background. As you can see each storyboard window is divided up into three sections. The top acts as the visual representation of the tutorial slide, the bottom left the spoken script, and the bottom right the technical script. I thought this might work well having both the visual representation of what is going on during the tutorial, as well as an explanation of what should be happening. Overall this method has worked out well, I basically can see exactly what the tutorial will look like, what lines of dialogue need to be recording and added to which slide, and I can see what graphical/technical aspects still need to be created.
Library Tour Tutorial Storyboard
This second storyboard definitely has more of a rough draft feel to it. Creating a library tour tutorial/video of some sort has been a long overdue project that has been sitting around the to-do bin. Once my redux projects are completed it is something I will be tackling (assuming nothing else comes up, haha). For this I basically sat down and just started brainstorming how the tutorial will look/function/feel. How will students navigate, what kind of information will be presented, and are there any technical hurdles that will be different compared to other tutorials. Everything is done by hand here, minus the storyboard window. Also there is not much in terms of script, just general ideas of information. I really wanted to focus on the visual aspects and how the tutorial/tour could flow from one part of the library to another.