You will produce one finished short video from script to export, ready to post.
Every lesson in this module has given you one piece: a filming spot, a way of shooting, an editing routine, and captions and covers. This project puts them together into one finished video, start to finish, from the script you wrote in module four to an exported file ready to post.
Set aside an hour, ideally in daylight if you rely on a window. Clear the space, charge the phone and silence it. This is the first video you will make with the full method, so expect it to take longer than later ones.
Make one short vertical video from one of your three scripts from lesson 4.4, Write three scripts ready to film. It should start on the hook, deliver the payoff, end on one next step, carry accurate captions and on-screen text for the hook, and have a cover frame with a short title. You will not post it yet. Module six covers captions, hashtags and when to post.
Choose the script you feel most confident about. Confidence on camera, or with your hands on the work, shows in the result. Save the harder scripts for when the method feels familiar.
Go to the spot you chose in lesson 5.1, Light, sound and framing matter more than the camera. Run the checklist before you press record: facing the light with nothing bright behind you, aircon and fans off, windows closed if it is noisy, microphone clipped on if you have one, phone vertical, at eye level or above the work, and steady. Wipe the lens. Lock focus and exposure. Switch on do not disturb.
Film the script in short takes, line by line, as in lesson 5.2. Do two or three takes of the hook and the payoff. Leave a beat before and after each one. Then film your b-roll: at least five clips of hands, product or process, starting a second before the action and ending a second after.
Open your editing app and lay out the takes in script order. Trim the first clip so the video starts on the first word or action of the hook. Go through and remove pauses, repeats and false starts, and cover any awkward jump cuts with b-roll. Cut to b-roll wherever the speaker is not adding something visual. End within a moment of the next step.
Add on-screen text for the hook in the first frame, short, high contrast and placed away from the edges. Add any music only from a library cleared for your account type, or leave it out, following lesson 5.3, Edit for pace: cut the start, the pauses and the end.
Generate captions, then proofread every word against what you said, especially names, local terms and numbers. Check the caption timing. Choose or design a cover frame with a short title.
Then watch the whole video twice before exporting. Once on mute: does the hook make sense from the text alone, can you follow the payoff, is any text hidden behind where the buttons will go? Once with sound: is your voice clear, is there any hum or echo, does the pace feel quick without being rushed?
Fix what you find. Then export at the highest quality your app allows, and save the project file in the app so you can reuse the text style, caption settings and structure next time. The saved project is your house style in practice.
Mei Ling's first finished video, as an example, was her "Will it melt in the car?" script. It opened on a cake box sliding on a back seat with the text "Will it melt in the car?", moved through three short tips with b-roll of an ice pack, a cooler bag and the car's aircon vents, and ended with "Save this for your next party." It ran to about 35 seconds, the captions spelled Punggol correctly, and her cover showed the cake box with the same title. It took her about an hour and a half the first time, and her figures are only an example.
Yours should meet the same standard: a vertical video that starts on the hook with no lead-in, has no pause longer than a breath, carries corrected captions and an on-screen hook clear of the edges, ends on one next step and has a titled cover. Expect to see things you would do differently. That is normal, and noting them is how the second video gets better.
So: film, edit, caption and export one complete video from your scripts, then watch it once on mute and write down the one thing you would improve.
Film, edit, caption and export one complete short video from your scripts, then watch it on mute and note one thing to improve.
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