Blog #5 – Storytelling Video

Storytelling Video – The importance of proper sleep hygiene

Reflection

My experience of creating a storytelling video for learning purposes has been quite eye-opening. It never occurred to me that ChatGPT could be used to develop a thorough script and make the process of video creation so much easier. The ability to have a script generated to a specified length of a video is something I have not done before. In my opinion, ChatGPT will become a game-changer in the future, not only for writing scripts but also for personal and professional use. Moreover, storyboarding can serve as a useful tool to give the individual a rough idea of what their video will look like. However, in my experience, I think that storyboarding would not be useful to me for two reasons. The first reason is that when you generate a script in ChatGPT it already indicates what is being displayed on the screen. For example, in my video about sleep hygiene, ChatGPT specified ‘Cut to a shot of a bedroom’, which allows users to edit in a clip of a bedroom and also see how it will play. The other reason why I think storyboarding would not be as useful is because of the time it takes to create it. At least for me, I generally have a rough idea of how a video should be played out in my head and I think that storyboarding would only slow down my creation process. Some of the principles that I employed in my video are Mayer’s principles of redundancy and modality. With the principle of redundancy, I did not have any text in the video and narrated the video with video clips in the background. This supports the redundancy principle which suggests that people learn more effectively from graphics and narration or graphics and text than they do from the combination of graphics, narration, and text. The principle of modality states that people learn better from visuals and spoken words rather than visuals and printed words, so I decided not to include any writing in my video and to rely only on visual aids and spoken words. My future plans are to create videos using other AI software, perhaps even using AI to generate the entire video, from script to visuals (videos and photos), but I do not believe that AI-generated videos are quite up to par at this point, so I will wait until the technology improves.