Advantages
Light boards allow you to make a video with no training! Someone else has taken care of everything, including lighting, hardware, etc. All you need is a USB stick, a script and a finger to push the button! You can produce a highly professional polished video easily.
Here are a few tips.
- Bring a buddy to press the button, and possibly hold cue cards.
- Fully develop and practice your script.
- Break the script (even a simple short one) into small bits.
- Record each part individually. Clap at the beginning of each in case the audio and video are slightly out of sync. This will speed efforts to synchronize later. Repeat for the next part.
- Consider either a stance to end and start each portion, or plan to put a sign in each break so that the audience doesn’t notice the visual shift in the presenters position.
- Keep looking at the camera through the whole piece, from beginning to beyond the end. It will be tempting to look at the person pressing the button. Don’t.
- Don’t change pen colors. It takes extra time with little effect. If you edit out the changes, the posture shifts are noticeable.
- Use software like Camtasia to put all the pieces together. Add titles between parts to obscure the postural shifts from splicing.