How to Make an Interactive Training Video
Training videos are used by 74% of large businesses and continue to be a key factor in training delivery across many organizations. The use of interactive training videos is quickly becoming commonplace across various industries, and according to Training Magazine, industry data shows that large companies are actively using virtual classrooms, webcasting & video broadcasting for training. Learning how to make an interactive training video that you can use to engage your team in top quality training is a process that requires careful planning in pre-production, essential equipment for shooting the video, and top notch experience for post-production editing.
At Beverly Boy Productions, learning how to make an interactive training video is a task that we look forward to assisting you with. Our team has more than two decades of experience in the production of top quality video content including, more recently, interactive training videos. To learn more about how to make an interactive training video that will provide exceptional training or your team, give us a call. Continue reading for additional insight into the steps you can expect in learning how to produce interactive training for your team.
Step 1: Identify Necessary Learning Goals & Objectives for Your Video
Just like any other training video, the first step to producing an interactive training video is to identify the necessary learning goals and objectives that you wish to fulfill. This requires that you perform a careful analysis of your current employee needs and determine exactly what it is that you want your team to learn and understand. Identification of your corporate learning goals will help you to set the individual objectives for each of these goals.
Make sure that your learning goals align with your corporate needs and that each of the objectives align with the goals. This is also when you’ll begin the planning out interviews of any experts that will provide necessary training points to cover with your video content. You should also be thinking about the various interactive features that can be incorporated into your video at this time.
Step 2: Prepare the Script
Once you’ve identified the learning goals and objectives, your focus should be on writing the script for your interactive training video. When writing a script, consider the following:
- You should very carefully choose your words, let the pictures do most of the talking.
- An interactive training video should be narrated in a conversational tone.
- A conversational tone is spoken at an average of 150 words per minute.
If you’re writing a script for a training video that’s going to be 5 minutes long, you’ll have approximately 750 words in total. This should be your target, but fewer or a little bit more is okay.
Step 3: Consider the Most Suitable Interactive Features
Choosing the most suitable interactive features for your interactive training video will require that you think carefully about what’s going to resonate most with your target audience. There are various interactive features that can be integrated into your video including:
- Hotspots – these take your learner to complimentary content that reinforces the training.
- 360° videos – these create an immersive environment where the learner can look up, down, left and right.
- Links – self-explanatory, but they provide complimentary content for the learner.
- Branching or paths – these take the learner along a chosen path of learning in which the viewer can decide the direction or path.
- Quizzes – along with polls, these provide reinforcement of the content that is being taught with the training video.
Many interactive training videos incorporate a mix of interactive features to provide an immersive, engaging, and fully interactive experience for the viewer.
Once you’ve decided on the interactive elements to include, you can begin to define where they apply to your script.
Step 4: Production Begins
Most of the planning and pre-production requirements involved in learning how to make an interactive training video are covered in the first three steps, now it’s time to begin the creative process of filming the video. This is often where hiring a professional film crew comes into play, particularly because the equipment and experience required to film a professional training video isn’t easy to come by.
During production, all of the shots and b-roll footage required for the training video are captured. Excess footage is generally shot to ensure that the editing team has everything they need to produce a winning video.
Step 5: Post-Production Editing & Final Cut
Once production is complete, post-production editing takes place. As the project nears the final cut, you’ll see that it’s really beginning to take shape and come to life. Learning how to make an interactive training video like this requires essential understanding of software, too. This is because the interactive elements that are incorporated into the video will largely come together during post-production in the editing process.
Working with a professional film crew is key if you’re interested in learning how to make an interactive training video that is going to present your team with the level of professional quality content that is to be expected of your brand. For more on producing an interactive training video, give Beverly Boy Productions a call!
