Key Challenges in Producing Quality Video

  • Determining content
  • Deciding what to really capture after general content is determined (storyboarding)
  • Choosing the right equipment and software
  • Cost involved
  • Prioritizing needs
  • Lack of experience with new technologies
  • Creating a match between need and equipment
  • Shooting digitally is different than regular video with the web component and the compression issues
  • Developing expertise and a team if you don’t have one
  • Network storage, traffic, and bandwidth
  • Quick obsolescence of information and the cost of redoing
  • Sustaining materials with changes in technology over time, especially with the investment required to create video case study
  • Capturing the real thing vs. looking staged
  • Dealing with technical aspects such as audio and lighting
  • Showing diversity of students and teachers
  • Managing distractions in the classroom during filming
  • Gaining release permissions for students to appear on the web
  • Knowing the classroom resources and restrictions (e.g., wiring restrictions)
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