What constitutes a video?
Oct 17, 2017
By
Erica Inge
I'm working with a colleague to write an article about an instructional designer partnering with a medical professional to deliver online training solutions. My colleague is concerned if we use the term video that our audience may be confused by what we mean and automatically assume talking heads. Our team creates videos that rarely include talking heads. Usually we include audio, images, animations and sometimes software simulations (but not always). I call all of this video and make no distinction between the flavor of video so I'm having a hard time thinking of other words to use. Any ideas?
5 Replies
Just use the term "media", as in multi-media - that will cover it off for
you and most people will then grasp that it more than just a video.
Donna Gingera
Principal, Hour-Zero School Emergency Program
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Hi Erica,
To piggyback on Donna's point, perhaps you use a term such as "multi media clips" but then go on to give a few short examples early on such as: 2D animations, screencasts, motion graphics, testimonials, etc
Thanks to Donna and Bob!
"Video" is a pretty broad term, for sure. For us, "video" means you click play and then watch/listen with no interaction and it's how we distinguish between that and eLearning. It also means the file format is mp4, wmv, etc. If that's what you have but you want a clearer impression of the design it is a good idea to add additional or other descriptors as suggested above just to avoid selling yourself short.
Good point. We're going to create a table to demonstrate the difference between eLearning and video (or multimedia).
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