Comments on: Combining Cinema with Screencasting

By: ניהול קופות גמל

ניהול קופות גמל — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:42:05 +0000

It’s unbelievable how you can take a boring thing such as a tutorial, and with creativity and inspiration, turn it into something amazing.
It made me want to watch it just for the fun of it, and I’m sure that it can run well on youtube just as a video clip regardless of its tutorial purpose…
A job well done!

By: Holly Thomas

Holly Thomas — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:24:09 +0000

Thanks Tom. I’ve passed your comment onto my Help-writing, video-making colleagues. We really appreciate your feedback because we’re always looking for ways to make our content more effective.

By: iphone earbuds

iphone earbuds — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 05:54:20 +0000

Harry’s purpose here is to try to create interest, not just explain how to do a task.

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:22:32 +0000

Well, I don’t think anyone can jump in and start creating the kinds of videos Harry has done here. Also, while they are highly entertaining, interesting, and fun to watch, I’m not so sure that more straight-to-the-point, here’s-how-you-do-it video tutorials aren’t just as gratifying to the reader who is trying to learn how to do a specific task. Harry’s purpose here is to try to create interest, not just explain how to do a task.

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 17:24:46 +0000

Thanks Michelle. I was just checking out Scott's site. It looks like he has a good resource for screencasters. Thanks for the tip.

By: Michelle Schoen

Michelle Schoen — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:58:45 +0000

Tom,

What a coincidence- I just wrote a blog post about the dullness of many screencasts and got a great reply from one of my readers who provides a few links to other screencasts that combine cinema. some of them are awesome. Check out his reply here http://www.vademogirl.com/the-harsh-truth-about-screencasts/

Michelle

By: Tom Johnson

Tom Johnson — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 16:45:10 +0000

Holly, thanks for your comment. Also, thanks for linking to me from the Microsoft Office Online Blog. I like how innovative you are with your help content. If you have any other new techniques, especially with multimedia, I would be interested to learn about it.

By: Holly Thomas

Holly Thomas — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 23:08:30 +0000

Tom, thanks for your comments on Harry and Ron’s series. You inspired this post on Inside Office Online http://bit.ly/KhkJH. I used to be the tech editor for Visio help content, and now work on the IOO Blog. Harry writes for Visio now and I’m delighted to see how cleverly he and Ron are showing off what Visio can do. We’re creating a lot of video now for Office how-to so I appreciate your and your readers’ opinions on what does and doesn’t work.

By: Maeve Maguire

Maeve Maguire — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:59:24 +0000

Tom,

This is exactly what a friend and I were talking about last week. My tutorials are SO DULL. “In this tutorial, we will learn….” blah blah boring. I’m not sure how, but I must try to write an engaging script. Any ideas where to start?

Thanks for the inspiration.

Maeve