Blog Post 4: How Video Editing can Improve User Comprehension.

Video editing is vital for creating multimedia content as it allows the creator to dictate pacing, reveal information, ensure continuity, and amplify emotion (MasterClass Staff, n.d.). This applies to educational multimedia video content as control over content to apply the concepts of dual coding and the coherence principle. The coherence principle demonstrates that it is vital not to over stimulate the learner and to reduce extraneous material. Using video editing techniques for control over content reveal and pacing dictation follows the coherence principle.

The video examples above demonstrate an edited versus an uncut screencast walkthrough. Working only with the footage in the uncut version, I made improvements by adding strategic cut screens with text explanations to give additional context to the content. Additions that could be made to further apply the dual coding theory would be to add a voice-over to the cut screens.

References:

MasterClass Staff. A Guide to Film Editing: How to Edit a Video. (n.d.). https://www.masterclass.com/articles/guide-to-film-and-video-editing#why-is-editing-an-important-part-of-the-filmmaking-process.