I wrote, narrated, and produced this video to promote an online service designed to help people order and schedule medical tests conveniently and affordably.
Category Archives: Screencast Videos
Mobile Demo: Todoist for iPhone
I’ve created dozens of tutorials and promotional videos for Todoist, a powerful productivity tool, including overviews of their plugins for various web browsers, email clients, and so forth. In this case, they asked me to demonstrate their new app for the iPhone.
Promotional Video: Late Nite Labs
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I recently wrote, narrated, and produced this video for LateNiteLabs.com.
I tend to get passionate about any project I work on… but this one was special.
I used to work at a science museum doing live demonstrations: making kids’ hair stand on end with static electricity, blowing things up with liquid nitrogen. I’ve seen first-hand just how powerful the experience of hands-on science can be for kids. It opens their eyes, helps them understand concepts in a brand-new way, and it really does help them to discover a genuine love of science.
Unfortunately, in high school and college science departments, hands-on labs are becoming less and less common. The equipment is expensive and fragile. And in today’s economy, when some schools can barely afford textbooks, buying enough supplies for a whole class to try even one experiment, much less a whole series, just doesn’t happen.
Late Nite Labs provides an alternative: virtual labs. Students try classic chemistry and biology experiments, going through the same steps they’d use in a real lab, but in a Flash-based web app, instead. That means they can take their time, they can make mistakes, they can go back and try again, they can even try experiments they’d never have a chance to attempt in real life. To me, that sounds like a fantastic opportunity.
It took a few rounds of revisions to get the video just right, but I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out–and I’m THRILLED to have had a chance to help promote Late Nite Labs.
Promo: Shark’s Den Poker
Shark’s Den Poker wanted a short promotional video that would introduce their family of poker sites to new players–and also to potential affiliates. These are obviously two very different audiences, which made appealing to them in one video a little tricky.
It took a few revisions to get the script just right, but I think we pulled it off quite nicely in the end.
Tutorial: Studio Helper
Studio Helper is an online system designed to help music studios, dance studios, or anyone with a small private school manage their students, teachers, calendar, and invoicing. They asked me to write, narrate, and produce a whole series of tutorial videos. In fact, 25 videos in all.
“Thanks for all your help with these videos. I think they turned out really well, and our customers are finding them very helpful in learning the software.” – Brandon Pearce, StudioHelper.com
To watch more of my Studio Helper videos, please visit their YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/studiohelper.
Tutorial: Form Lizard
I created a whole series of tutorial videos for FormLizard.com, a site that allows users to replace their old-fashioned paper forms and fill-in-the-blank contracts with easy, online interviews. Users answer a few questions, and end up with a clean, seamless, customized document, which they can print out or submit electronically.
Since then, FormLizard has brought me back in several more times to create additional tutorials about their newest features. This is one of those additional videos–specifically, about how to send a form to your client for a signature without wasting paper.
For more samples of my work for Form Lizard, visit their YouTube channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/blueburrosoftware/featured.
Tutorial: Modern Closets Direct
ModernClosetsDirect.com asked me to write, narrate, and produce a tutorial video to show new customers how to use their editor to design custom walk-in closets. The editor provides a lot of options, but they wanted to keep their video fairly short.
I like the way this one turned out–especially the ending, where we take the sample design we’ve been putting together and show how it turns into a professional design, and ultimately a finished, real-world closet system.
Also, as with any client whose website has a very distinctive look, I adapted my style so the video would fit in. Based on early reports, the client (and their customers) seem to like their new tutorial.