# Practical: produce a short explainer

AI Content Creation | Module 12: Plan and edit short videos

## Your goal

Create a 30 to 45 second workshop invitation, or a fully timed storyboard when recording tools are unavailable.

Bring together the two lessons in this module. Create a 30 to 45 second workshop invitation, or a fully timed storyboard when recording tools are unavailable. Use the fictional Green Bench source pack, and keep missing details visible in your working notes.

Your finished work should include: A timed script and shot list. An edited clip or annotated storyboard, captions, and review notes. Keep the actual text in the workspace. For media, describe your file or storyboard, its version, and the decisions it shows. Media files stay on your device; this form saves text only.

Try this review experiment: Time the final card separately. Give a peer enough time to read it, or read it aloud yourself at a comfortable pace. Record what changed and why. You may use your own AI tool or work from the supplied sample drafts. Label which approach you used. The checklist checks completeness and your review record, not creative quality.

## Source pack

FICTIONAL PRACTICE BRIEF: Green Bench is a student repair club. It runs a free notebook-cover repair workshop on Saturday, 14:00 to 16:00, in Room B. There are 12 places. Learners bring one worn notebook; tools and scrap card are provided. Register using the club form. No date, form URL, access arrangements, impact figures, or testimonials have been supplied. Ask the organiser about missing details before publishing. This is a creative exercise, not a real event.

## Worked example

Create a 30 to 45 second workshop invitation, or a fully timed storyboard when recording tools are unavailable.

### Your finished work

A timed script and shot list. Start from the examples in the two earlier lessons, then write your own complete version or a detailed account of your media asset.

### Evidence and review

Use this experiment: Time the final card separately. Give a peer enough time to read it, or read it aloud yourself at a comfortable pace. Record the observations, source checks, and any unresolved questions.

### Revision and next step

Describe a specific change to this assignment and explain how it helps the reader. Keep the previous version for comparison.

## Guided practical

1. Revisit lessons 12-01 and 12-02 and collect your drafts.
2. Create a 30 to 45 second workshop invitation, or a fully timed storyboard when recording tools are unavailable.
3. Use your own tool or the supplied examples. Keep the source facts, prompt, and draft together.
4. Time the final card separately. Give a peer enough time to read it, or read it aloud yourself at a comfortable pace.
5. Revise the work, complete the worksheet, and record any remaining publication blockers.

### Deliverables

- A timed script and shot list.
- An edited clip or annotated storyboard, captions, and review notes.

## Your work

Create a 30 to 45 second workshop invitation, or a fully timed storyboard when recording tools are unavailable.

### Your finished work

Write at least 30 words.


### Evidence and review

Write at least 20 words.


### Revision and next step

Write at least 15 words.

## Review your work

- [ ] I included a timed script and shot list.
- [ ] I included an edited clip or annotated storyboard, captions, and review notes.
- [ ] I recorded an actual review result and a specific revision.

Completeness checks do not assess creative quality or factual accuracy. Review the actual work yourself or with a mentor.

## Quiz

1. What belongs in the review record for produce a short explainer?
   A. Time the final card separately. Give a peer enough time to read it, or read it aloud yourself at a comfortable pace.
   B. A claim that the work is perfect without checking it.
   C. Only the name of the tool used.

2. The final information card disappears before it can be read. What should you revise?
   A. Add more text to the same duration.
   B. Speed up the whole clip.
   C. Increase its duration or simplify the text, then test again.

## Quiz explanations

1. A: A useful review records an action, an observation, and what you changed.

2. C: Reading time should be part of the edit plan.

## Further reading

[W3C: accessible audio and video](https://www.w3.org/WAI/media/av/)