How to Make & Test Videos (with Limited Time & Money)
If you create print publications to inform your communities about their legal rights and responsibilities, videos can amplify your educational outreach efforts.
Below, you can download a copy of a 10-page Guide called, "How to Make & Test Videos (with Limited Time & Money)."
This guide will help you start making and fieldtesting videos within a few weeks and with minimal cost.
This guide is for you if you work at a legal services organization with limited time and money AND
• You have never made a legal education video OR
• You have made a legal education video, but don’t know how (or even if) it works for your community.
Why make videos?
• Many people learn through visual and moving images, rather than text alone
• Videos can complement your in-person educational outreach events
• Videos posted online counteract misinformation by changing search results
• Videos can connect viewers to your print publications and direct services
Steps to Making and Testing Videos
1. Ask your community to suggest a topic.
2. Write a script with pictures and movement.
3. Create a series of visual images with text.
4. Record voice-over narration.
5. Edit audio tracks and visual images in an editing program.
6. Show the draft video to a community group and listen up!
7. Change the video based on the community feedback.
This guide also includes:
• Recommended Resources, Software and Hardware
• Video Guidelines & Test Questions
• Sample Script Template
• Video Starter Pack. Free images you can use in your video.
How to Make and Test Videos with Limited Time and Money - 10 pages.pdf
