The Plan Now that you know how you are going to lay your story out (script or storyboard), you need to plan ahead to decide what production elements your video should include, to help you better communicate your message.

Taking your script or storyboard and turning it into a video will require some planing. Video incorporates many different elements such as zooms, dissolves, crossfades, music, and titles. When used properly these elements can aid in telling your story. Putting them together however requires some planning. Before you can effectively use these production elements you must first understand them. Click any of the highlighted terms for a more through description.

 

Production Elements

Titles	names, credits, copyright page
Graphics	opening, closing
Video	chroma key, dissolves, framing, zooms, fades, wipes, close-up, long shot
Audio	dialog, sound effects, music, microphone techniques, voice-over

Now that you understand the production elements, you might take a moment to review your script to see how these elements can aid in the telling of your story.

 

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