in this tutorial i will show how to create an effective engaging in professional looking

video abstract entirely with the smart

let's start with preparation

first identify your key finding or take a message something that can be stated in

one or two sentences your video abstract will be designed around the score idea

next decide how you will convey your message select a structure that will get the

viewers attention or raise their curiosity generally overweight of a near rigid structure and instead

tell a story here are few ideas

you might simply begin with the description of an interesting aspect of your work such

as the unique ecosystem or unusual organism

or you could start with a question or puzzle

and have the answer unfold like a mystery novel

generate a sense of curiosity that makes the bureau want to know how it will

turn out

or create a gap in the viewers mind about the topic

by describing what is noted what is not known in you can explain how your

work felt that

or you may take a human interest approach and describe what motivated you to conduct

the research perhaps you were cancer research or and lost someone to the disease or

your work may have been stimulated by catastrophic events such as a hurricane

next prepare a storyboard in script a storyboard is a visual sequence of steps describing

scenes

that will comprise your idea

you're storyboard can be created and powerpoint more somewhere application here you will decide what

footage and review still images animations or by the media well we used to tell

each aspect of your story

strive to use at least two types of media to make your video with visually

interesting

also prepared transcript of your of the idea which is helpful for colleagues who may

not speak your language or who have trouble understanding your accent

you can should editor and publisher video entirely with the smart phone or tablet that

has a camera and that can support movie editing apps for mobile devices and using

my phone for and i'm the for this tutorial

here are some accessories that will help you film with the smart phone

make a role apart with holder attachment for your phone can be used for stationary

filming in your office

laboratory for signal

for action footage of yourself and colleagues

and extendible modified such as i stabiliser works well

you want to use a lapel microphone but need one designed for use with smartphones

along with the compatible extension cable

with this setup you can then easily fill in yourself demonstrating something in the field

or laboratory or film yourself in your co authors

discussing the study findings in an appropriate setting

next she your video

they don't yourself and corridors explaining your work

get footage showing methods instruments and organisms

used in your study

you may want to film activities in scenes from different perspectives to had variety to

your video

you can also you still images of plants animals swells landscapes

and experiments in my entire sequence is in your vad a

use animations to illustrate concepts and the findings of your study

he receives film to

first you want to avoid backlighting by not something you're subject in front of the

one that alternatively block the window and introduce white from the side

if outdoors of weight filming at midday winged channels are difficult to avoid instead

so on an overcast day

trying like to from your subject against a blank wall

blackboard whiteboard

instead selectively review location with a simple but interesting backdrop

and where there are no distracting movements in the background

use the role of third step composure shots

position in your subject recording to thirds is more visually pleasing and this approach can

provide room for a picture in picture

you can speak directly to the audience by maintaining eye contact with the camera lens

or you can use an interview style approach in which the subject looks off camera

which can produce some more natural or spontaneous affect

it helps to have someone standoff camera and asking questions

this can be edited out later

in this section we going to show how to edit video abstract

with them with the editing

for the smart phone call i and movie

to demonstrate

i'm going to create a video abstract of the paper i publish previously and the

journal

global change biology i've already got the media files own i found

and i'm going to follow a storyboard in script

that i've prepared ahead of two

first you want to download i will be from napster or

you can do a search for it

that store

and once you located

then you can download it and it will

appear on your phone screen

and we tap on it

you will be presented with

a screen looks like this

and all of your projects are listed below and you can scroll through the

to create a new project tap on the plus some idea new project

and you will be presented with a when the

that looks like this

the upper panel is the browser window

and it's where you will pu you met a preview project

the lower panel is the project timeline in this where you're media will be dropped

to build your video and the tools you will use or in the smaller boxes

along the sides

pick the thing you want for your video by selecting the

settings button and the first one is the default called modern

and it is very clean simple

if you change that the it what then modify the look at the text the

theme music and they transitions

it's step starting with the paper title and citation i think all start with the

film clip are recorded in which i talk about the plant community we study

it was set the stage for the project

to select media you tap the media browser button

which opens you met your browser

then selected at all on the bottom

e and we'll the n c all the video clips stored in my image library

and we can scroll through done to find the correct one

and so on here it is at the top chapel to highlighted in yellow e

and we can review it first by tapping on the button on the left

and then we might want to add it i tap on the blue arrow and

it drops into the time

i contribute that's that the gain by tapping the play button and able play in

the time

i can expand or contract

the clip with the pitch so gesture giving me a wider view of the number

of frames in each class

if i want to trend the clip them attempt to highlight then drag one of

the handles at the end to the point where i want the clip to store

and so now you can see that we've got a shorter segment of that initial

plan

next i want to add the title of the paper

i'll tapped the media button

then select photos

this opens my photo library

scroll and select the image intact but

it drops right into the time

i'm gonna at another photo

once in the timeline i can change the timing of the photo by tapping

and dragging the handles

the same as for a video clip

and so you can see the duration of the clip is increasing from

four point nine seconds to twelve point one seconds

i can't pitch just a or drag to a new position or at a can

burns affected by setting different positions at the beginning and end of the clip

and so the sets motion to the fatter

to read text double tap the clip and the dialogue box opens so like title

than opening title

tap and the text box and the keyboard appears

and all type in the title of the paper

so like done in play to preview

i think all at the location of this study to the opening footage but i

don't want the text to appear over the entire clip

so level split that the first to do this i select the clip

and that's why my finger in the downward motion across the play head

this is the p protocol on

the clip is split and i can type in the location text

on the first segment

also like the middle text option and then tap the text box to open a

keyboard

and all type in

mississippi river delta

note here that i can change the volume of the audio on the slope

with the scroll more

or needed altogether by tapping this but

some let's review

you'll notice that there are these funny boxes between clips these are transitions

and the icon show that the default transition is across does all

double tap and information box opens

we see that these transitions are one second in

the length by default

but we can change the duration

or we can eliminate it by selecting no

now the icon will show a vertical line

indicating that it is now converted to occur transition

now i want to explain a little bit more about these vegetation types and how

this relates to air and c two picture so i'm going to use an animation

so we're to go back to my

video file

and select an animation that i've uploaded

and it drops into my time

you can find such media in the public domain

for example government sites such as nasa or you can create them yourself

i need to do a voiceover for this but

after first practising at the microphone button and then tap record

it's important to be sure the play it is situated where you want the recording

to begin

there's a three second candidate

then the recording starts

we finished at the record button again

we then have the opportunity to review

retake

except where discard the recording

if excepted the audio file

drops into the timeline it shows up as a problem bore

we can double tap it to adjust the volume

i will continue to add images the experiment and data and then record additional voice

overs

i created these images in powerpoint

save them as photographs and then export it them to my that a library

you can move clips of the timeline by pressing on them with your finger

and dragged into a new position

to remember clip

drag it out of the timeline and released

in the action can be undone by tapping the undo button

a final i don't that might be at it is music i really provides a

few jingles

you can also applied other music but you must have a license for the video

is to be polished

tap on your selection and it will drop into the time one

and it will show up as a green more

now that my video abstract is finished

let's export

we go back to the marquee screen and

tap the share button from here it can be exported directly to youtube or to

other sites

by sending the file t

i teens you can then be transferred to my computer

with the information i just presented you should be able to create a pretty good

video abstract

for a journal article

by yourself is involving a smart phone or a tablet you should strive to keep

it under five minutes in length

but be sure to follow your journals guidelines in this

it's that's to plan for video abstract

while you're search is underway so that you can get useful video footage

another necessary media

but as my example shows

you can still make a decent video abstract of a paper after the fact using

photo montage as power point slides

or media from the public domain

to see the entire video abstract are used for the demonstration just click on the

one

i hope you will find this video tutorial helpful this is karen mickey this i

just the art for thanks for watching