Video tutorial development
This page is collecting ideas / tools / scripts and coordinate efforts for Video tutorial development. Check out the video tutorials we have so far. Lets work on improving and adding to these.
Super glossy videos. Some inspiration
It's quite interesting to take a look at the 'guided tour' video for waze.com for some inspiration. waze.com are competitors. As we OSMers all know, deep down at the end of the day they suck, because they are just another evil corporate mapping company using "crowd sourcing" techniques, but keeping all the gathered geodata for themselves. But you have to hand it to them, that's a pretty compelling sales pitch video.
- Crisp friendly cartoony graphics
- Crisp clear friendly audio.
- Well thought out messages. Short and to-the-point.
The waze guided tour video is not particularly a 'tutorial', so that means they can skirt around the technical details where things start to get ugly. Perhaps we should try to do something similar for an intro to OpenStreetMap. But we can try to get more glossy even with the more technical tutorials.
Some more tutorial style inspiration from google mapmaker (another closed-crowd-sourcing outfit) : [1] [2]
How to create tutorial videos
The process of creating video tutorials usually involves using 'screencasting' software at least as a starting point wikipedia:Comparison of screencasting software.
It's surprisingly easy to get started, but surprisingly hard to get really good results. To achieve super-well-polished results like those linked above.... well nobody's managed to do that yet for OpenStreetMap.
Coordination
At the moment we're doing this in ad-hoc way. Various different people have had a crack at creating video tutorials. There's something to be said for quantity over quality, in that we can cover a broad range of topics with a range tutorial styles. Something for everyone. But how can we push up the quality? And how can we work together in a more coordinated way to help do this?
