Short-Form Content Design
Reels structure: the first second, loops, pattern interrupts, captions and text overlay as script.
- Lectures
- 8
- Total runtime
- 2h 46m
- Attendance minimum
- 1h 23m
- Prerequisites
- NAR-201 Storytelling II: Structure & Pacing
Lecture Playlist
Ordered as a teaching progression, not by popularity. Attendance is recorded once half of a lecture has been watched.
- Lec 7 | MIT 9.00SC Introduction to Psychology, Spring 2011 (Lecture 7: Attention) What a viewer actually perceives in the first moment: attention as a filter 42 min Attended
- The Psychological Basis for UI Design Rules Designing for a glance: expectation, peripheral vision, and why reading is expensive 75 min Attended
- 56. Lean Messaging: How Simple Messages Really Stick Compression: stripping a message to its minimum viable form 19 min Attended
- The Secret to Telling a Great Story — in Less Than 60 Seconds | Jenny Hoyos The short-form story shape: hook, progression, conflict, uncertain payoff 4 min Attended
- Hook hacking: How to grab attention in the first three seconds The first three seconds, and how to measure whether they worked 2 min Attended
- Optimize your ad creative using Reels best practices Format constraints that shape the frame: 9:16, sound, and safe zones 2 min Attended
- Boost My Business UK: How to Reels Building a Reel: shooting in sequence, visual jolts, text overlay as the message 2 min Attended
- Practicum · working creator I Studied 1,000 Hooks, Here’s How to ACTUALLY Go Viral A thousand real hooks taken apart: what the first second is doing, why openings fail, and how a scroll gets stopped 20 min Attended
Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, heyDominik — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.