5 Posts to Improve Your Screencasting Skills
Last year I started to hear interesting things about ‘Content Curation’ and decided to invest some of my time and effort into understanding what it was and how it could help our business. There are some very smart people on the Internet creating all kinds of amazing content that I know you can benefit from and I love doing the research to bring it to you.
If you don’t know exactly what “Content Curation” is- I’ll tell you….
“Content curation is the process of gathering information relevant to a particular topic or area of interest. Services or people that implement content curation are called curators.”
Since I just watched some content curation training (and I try to take action right away on any new training I take-and you should too) I have assembled a nice curation for you that should provide hours of screencast learning pleasure.
Here are Five very worth-it blogposts from around the web that Screencasters should read:
#1 What Freelancers Charge for Custom Video Projects
Don’t bother filling out all the fields. I clicked on “Explainer” video and chose “animated”. I got a chart showing what other Freelancers are charging based on how fancy the client wants to make the video. Nice!
#2 17 Presentation Design Trends To Look Out For In 2017
The design trends that became popular in 2016, like flat design, will continue to pick up pace in 2017. At the same time, new trends will emerge that will try to bring presentation design at par with web design.
#3 How to Start a Presentation
The first minute after you start narrating is crucial. Your audience wants you to succeed, but they also judge you pretty quickly. So don’t be boring in that first minute! This post is geared towards PowerPoint Presentations but it is just as relevant for videos.
#4 What is the Best Microphone?
Matt Pierce, a Techsmith Training Manager, and Kyle Wilson, a Video Production Specialist at TechSmith headed to their soundbooth and tested 6 different microphones. If you’re in the market for a mic you can listen to how they sound first.
#5 Best Free Photo and Image Editing Program
Check out Bill Myer’s short video and you’ll see why we both think PhotoPad is one of the best, if not the best, free photo editing programs available. Why spend hundreds on Photoshop when this one is free?
Did you get inspired?
Hope you found some gems in that reading list.
And by the way…
Did the project rates for a simple “Explainer” video shown in #1 above inspire you? Yup, that’s what people are getting for video work. Setting your own rates is one reason why having a career as a screencaster is awesome.
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