Video Script Example

This is a talking-head script for a university course on corporate social responsibility. The professor is presenting some of their research findings in accordance with Mayer’s voice principle that people learn better when listening to real voices in place of machine generated voices. This video will be included in a set of didactic notes on diversity, equity, and inclusion. This follows Mayer’s pre-training principle that states learners learn better when they already know the basics and have engaged with key concepts first.

It will take the professor about 6.5 minutes to deliver the script, which is in line with current data about the ideal length of didactic videos for online courses.

Notice how the script is broken down into chapters following Mayer’s segmenting principle. The professor also uses personalised, informal language to engage the learner in obedience to Mayer’s personalisation principle. Also, text and animation are used to signal important information at exactly the right moment, thus fulfilling Mayer’s principles of signalling, spacial contiguity, temporal contiguity, and coherence.