Many technical communicators also need to create a video or two for their target groups. But it is especially beginners who get overwhelmed quickly with the planning, recording, editing and production of a video. Luckily, there are tips to make things easier.
In 1896, Boleslav Matuszewski, a Polish businessman and photographer, began filming surgical procedures in hospitals. Seeing the recordings, doctors could identify their own mistakes and improve procedures, and the films were used for teaching and research purposes. Matuszewski's work is one of the first known examples of using moving images for documentation and learning purposes.
More than 120 years later, video has become an important element of communication, even technical documentation. And rightly so: Complex instructions and technical procedures are easier to understand when they are presented visually. This is shown by a recent scientific study. In one experiment of the study, employees were given tasks. Sixty-seven percent of the study participants could perform the tasks more effectively when the tasks were prepared using screenshots, screencasts or videos as opposed to ...
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