Lectera: course hosts and a student story for an online school
Two course hosts on two different sets, a day of chapter b-roll and a student telling her story: everything an online school needs to build a course, filmed over four shoot days.
- Client
- Lectera, an online school
- Format
- Course-host lessons, chapter b-roll and a student testimonial
- Our part
- Filming and editing
- Filmed
- Four shoot days in 2021, about 6 hours of lesson takes
What we filmed
- Course host on an office set. Lessons to camera at a desk, plus the moments a course cuts to between topics: typing, a video call, reading, a phone call by the window.
- A day of chapter b-roll. A styled apartment set filmed for chapter openers and transitions: reading, notes, coffee by the window, small details.
- Course host on a living-room set. Long lesson takes on two cameras, a wide and a close-up, so the edit can cut between them without a jump.
- A student story. A student talks about the course on camera, then we follow her studying, taking notes and talking a lesson through on the red sofa.
Why it works for a course
A course needs more than the lesson itself. Hosts who look comfortable on camera, b-roll that gives every chapter a fresh start, and a real student who shows the result: together they make a course people finish and recommend.
The film above is narrated in Nikita's own words, read by an AI voice made from his, over an instrumental of "Leave It to Video Department", the original song we wrote for this project.
From the shoot
Some hosts like to talk freely. Others prefer a teleprompter. We only use professional teleprompters, and we always offer one.
Most of our lesson shoots run on two cameras: one from the front, one from the side.
We also help choose the location. Sometimes it's a rented studio, sometimes the client's own office. We can make it work.
Some of the b-roll is planned. And some moments we catch by pure luck.
This is a real student, not an actor.
What we're proudest of: Lectera became a regular client, and we've made a lot of good-looking online courses together.
Building an online course? We plan the sets, the cameras and the b-roll with you, then film the lessons in batches. See how a course filming day works →
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