In March of 2024, Lee LeFever started sharing short (under one minute) videos that explain every step of creating an animated explainer video. This page is an archive of these videos.
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The Videos
1. Intro
2. What video will we make?
3. What research is required?
4. Driving Questions. A set of driving questions will create the direction for our explainer video on deepfakes.
5. Estimating Video Duration. A challenge of writing a script is the constraint of duration. We have to tell the story in 3 minutes, and that comes down to word count. Here’s how to estimate video duration based on word count.
6. Let’s focus on the script for our video and the sections it’s likely to have.
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