Pentext's Scriptwriting and Storyboarding course teaches you to design and write a complete script and storyboard for voice, video, and screen recording development.

Learn to write a script that provides reviewers, content developers, animators, content editors, voice and video artist, and other stakeholders everything they need to make decisions and do their jobs effectively. This course teaches you the basics to make your script communication effectively and makes it easy for stakeholder to imagine how to content will look, communicate and sound.


Overview
All courses are specific to your corporate needs. That means that one of our instructors will work with you (or your team) specifically; you will never be in a training group with participants from any other company. We work through the course using your content or deliverable, as part of the exercise. That way, after the course, you already have some or all of your project complete. You can also contact your instructor for six months after the course is complete for full support.

Basic Training Training (per participant)
Online Training: $895.00 (one day), 1350.00 (two day)
Classroom: $895.00 (one day), 1350.00 (two day)
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Learn while you develop (per participant)
Online Training, Classroom, or Onsite: $3995.00 (4 days)
*You develop 3 "real" training videos with audio for your organization during these training sessions. We know it's not cheap but it's worth it.
This training option is best suited for participants who want to learn through hands-on-training. You develop your own content that you can use inyour video library immediately.
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Custom Development Addons (can be added to 1 day or 2 day training courses)
Add a "Developing for Handheld Devices" module for the iPhone, Blackberry, or Google Android ($399.00)
Develop a real training video(s) for your organization during the training session. (599.00 per video)
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Scriptwriting and Storyboarding Training Course

Learn to write a script that provides reviewers, content developers, animators, content editors, voice and video artist, and other stakeholders everything they need to make decisions and do their jobs effectively. This course teaches you the basics to make your script communication effectively and makes it easy for stakeholder to imagine how to content will look, communicate and sound

After Training Support
Six months of support is provided to all participants at no extra cost. Participants can communicate with their instructors by telephone, email, and receive immediate impromptu support through our remote desktop training tool.

Course Outline

Unit 1: Developing a Content Development Plan
This sections teaches you the basics required to plan your training development project. At the end of this section you will have a complete development plan that you can use for your projects.

Concepts – Linear/Interactive
- Narration and Visualization
- Conversation Writing
- Writing Visually
- Module Organization

Interactive Writing
- User Control
- Maintaining a Users Attention
- Creating a Dialog with your User
- Writing for Branching Material
- Planning to Create Multiple Paths - Branching
- Interactive Breath verses Depth

Writing for the Screen
- Text as Narrative
- Combining Audio Narration and Screen Text
- Screen Formats

Developing your Script
- Split-page Format
- Writing in Blocks
- StoryBoards – Keyframe Storyboard
- Example Scripts
- Script Templates

Using Talent
- Talent – On Camera – OffCamera
- Establishing Credibility – Authority
- Narrator Images and Video (Talking Head – Cowboy Shot)
- Narration – Professional verses Inhouse

Understanding the Basics of Digital Audio
-Understanding sound
-Digitizing audio
-Recording Audio Tips
-Setup
-Sound card settings
-Audio recording software settings
-Microphone placement
-Microphone technique
-Audio editing

Writing a Two-column Script
-Understanding the communication column and the Actions Column
-Writing to be Heard
-Associating Narrative and Screen Actions
-Writing for Team Development
-Defining your audio file name in your script

Navigating the Soundbooth Workspace
-Exploring the user interface
-Customizing the user interface

Editing and Enhancing Voiceover Recordings for Captivate/Camtasia/iSpring and iShowU
-Recording from a microphone
-Noise reduction
-Sound removal
-Basic editing
-Exporting

Exploring Effects
-Applying a standard effect
-Customizing an advanced effect
-Working with rack presets

Working with Markers
-Working with markers
-Defining marker data for reuse

Importing, Exporting, and Round-trip Editing
-Importing files
-Exporting Soundbooth score documents
-Exporting audio and video files for Recordings for Captivate/Camtasia/iSpring and iShowU
-Round-trip editing

Importing Audio into Captivate/Camtasia/iSpring and iShowU
-Adding Audio
-Adding sound to a specific object, such as a caption, click box, highlight box, or button
-Scripting Your Project

-Add audio files to your project
-Give audio definition
-Describing The Record Audio Dialog Box
-Importing Audio
-Importing Background Audio
-Benefits of Importing Background Audio
-Previewing Audio

Analyzing your Audience
- Bandwidth Considerations
- Analyzing your Resources
- Analyzing your Constraints
- Screen Resolution
- Instructional Design
- Linear or Interactive flow

Defining your Objectives
- Overall Training Objectives
- Activity Objectives
- Task Objectives

Creating a Content Outline
- Instructional Design for your Project
- Defining Modules
- Chunking Content
- Understanding Linear and Interactive Paths
- Interactive Module Access Points

Writing a Two-column Script
- Understanding the communication column and the Actions Column
- Writing to be Heard
- Associating Narrative and Screen Actions
- Writing for Team Development
- Defining your audio file name in your script

Creating a Storyboard
- Developing a Key Frame Storyboard
- Identifying Major Transitions
- Communicating Transitions and Actions

Defining Interactivity
- Creating an Interactive Flowchart
- Understanding Linear and Interactive Content
- Maintaining a Users Attention
- Planning to Create Multiple Paths - Branching
- Structuring your Captivate Movies

Implementing your script into a Software Demonstration
- Describing the Workflow Process
- Recording Your Project
- Preparing to Record an Application
- Describing the Recording Window/Recording Options
- Selecting the Recording Mode/Demonstration Mode/Assessment Simulation Mode/Training Simulation Mode/Custom Mode
- Describing Full Motion Recording
- Describing the Change Recording Keys

Working With Text Captions
- Describing Text Captions
- Describing the Auto-Generated Text Captions
- Editing Text Captions
- Inserting New Text Captions
- Resizing Text Captions
- Inserting and Stacking New Text Captions

Unit 4: Working With The Timeline
- Describing the Timeline
- Changing Caption Timing
- Changing Object Timing
- Changing Slide Timing
- Describing Major Components of the Timeline
- Using the Playhead to Preview the Timeline
- Scrubbing the Timeline
- Walkthrough 4-1: Working with the Timeline
- Changing the Order of Object Layers

Working With Images And Objects
- Inserting Images
- Using Images as Logos, Splash Screens, Pointers and More
- Importing Many Graphic Formats
- Describing the New Image Dialog Box
- Resizing Images

Inserting and Resizing Images
- Aligning Images
- Working with Image Stacks
- Aligning with Show Grid
- Using Various Tools to Align Images

Finishing Touches and Publishing Your Project
- Inserting Text Animation
- Changing Text Animation Effects
- Changing Font Attributes
- Describing the New Text Animation Dialog Box
- Walkthrough 6-1: Inserting Text Animation
- Inserting Animation
- Adding Animation Files
- Describing the New Animation Dialog Box

Setting Project Preferences
- Publishing Projects
- Creating Publishing Templates
- Publishing Project to a Flash (SWF) File
- Finishing Touches and Publishing Your Project