Introduction and Learning Objectives

This short video is meant to familiarize learners with the Canva interface. After viewing, the learner will know what navigation tabs to use in order to add elements, text, or their own uploaded files to their Canva Goal Tracker project. 

Licensing

The intro music is from Mystery Mammal and is used under Creative Commons License.

Planning

Title Screen

Brief Intro - Anna on camera setting goal for this video

On-screen Demo - Project open in Canva, examine left navigation panels tabs for:

• "Design"

• "Elements"

• "Text"

• "Uploads"

Techniques

Despite having no qualms about teaching/presenting in person, having to watch myself over and over on video is not something I enjoy at all, so I kept my time on camera brief. Luckily, in my current position, nothing I do is recorded for posterity so it's more of a one-and-done lesson. I recorded my computer screen first to make sure I liked the flow and that the pieces I wanted to include would fit within the overall timeframe of the video. After that, I ad-libbed my voiceover a few times before I landed with an audio track I liked. I recorded the audio track in Audition and imported it back over to Premiere Pro because the built-in recorder in Premiere Pro was picking up a lot of background noise. The title screen and credits screen were created in Canva and downloaded as PNGs before being imported into the video project. 

Reflection

Like the last project, I am thankful for the little bit of familiarity that I already had with Premiere Pro and other video production apps. In typical style, I did not leave myself with as much time as I probably should have allotted for this project but overall, I am content with the overall result and am more confident in a number of skills I haven't dusted off in more than a decade.