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 and Test Videos (with Limited Time and 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
- Ask your community to suggest a topic.
- Write a script with pictures and movement.
- Create a series of visual images with text.
- Record voice-over narration.
- Edit audio tracks and visual images in an editing program.
- Show the draft video to a community group and listen up!
- 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.