Long-Form Content Design
Structuring tutorials, vlogs, and video essays. Chaptering, watch-time architecture, endings that feed the next video.
- Lectures
- 8
- Total runtime
- 4h 3m
- Attendance minimum
- 2h 2m
- 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.
- Master Class in Visual Storytelling, Led by Dr. Zuberoa Marcos Designing an explanatory video: turning a subject into one idea an audience can be carried through 64 min Attended
- Story Structure and Scenes with Documentary Filmmaker Perri Peltz '82 Structuring a vlog or documentary from raw footage: three acts, scenes, and character 66 min Attended
- Day 4: Storyteller's Toolkit Pt. II: Visual Storytelling; Part 2: Storyboarding (20.219) From script to sequence: storyboarding as the structural blueprint of a long video 88 min Attended
- What's the Ideal Video Length? | Master Class #1 ft. Today I Found Out Runtime and rhythm: how long a piece should run, and how often to publish 6 min Attended
- An Insider's Guide to Satisfaction on YouTube! What long-form is actually optimized for: satisfied watch time, not minutes 9 min Attended
- How to Add Chapters to Your Videos Using Timestamps Chaptering: turning structure into navigation the viewer can see 1 min Attended
- Tools to Drive More Views | Master Class #4 ft. Carina Fragozo Endings that feed the next video: playlists and end screens as session design 4 min Attended
- Practicum · working creator F for Fake (1973) - How to Structure a Video Essay Structure as the working essayist's problem: taking a finished nonfiction work apart to see how its parts were ordered 5 min Attended
Every course reserves one practicum seat, listed last and marked P. It is filled by someone who has shipped the work — here, Every Frame a Painting — because the university lectures establish why something works and the practicum shows it being done under real constraints.