These are screenshots from the finished video. We had the audio which was read from the script and now we had to make a visual piece to go along with it. We decided to do a consistent visual style across all of the presentation to help make it easily accessible and straight forward to understand. We went with a black background for the whole thing as a way to draw the attention to the images and words on the page and not overcomplicate it visually.
We decided that each of the questions would be asked by a popular children’s book or graphic novel character as a way to link it to the contents of the presentation and just make it more fun to look at. I used Photoshop to make a PNG out of all the images and put them on the slides. Trying to find the right speech bubble was hard so I ended up drawing my own one on Procreate and using that. On the slides with the answers it also has the question either at the top or bottom on the page so that at any point the viewer could refer back to it. The contents on these pages is predominantly the images from the script but also has some captions containing key dates and names as well as some small bits of text. We didn’t want to overcrowd the pages and make it so the viewer got most of the answer through the audio but this was supplemented with visual examples and key information on the presentation. Below are screenshots from the parts that I answered.
Once we made the presentation the last thing to do was sync the changes from one slide to another with the audio. When this was finished we posted it to YouTube. Some improvements that I would make to the video after reviewing it would be to add some animatic elements as another way to make it more visually engaging. Also we needed to improve the audio as through speakers certain parts as much louder than others, making it harder to understand and interrupting the flow. However, overall I’m happy with the video as there is lots of good content in it which thoroughly covering the book illustration industry. Also I think the format of a conversational Q and A was unique and was a good way to share and combine everyone’s research.
Samuel Green Illustration 