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Best practice guidance: library skills videos

A guide to creating library skills videos

Skills in Seconds

Skills in Seconds videos include some additional formatting of text boxes and annotations that should adhere to the following guidelines. 

Text boxes

  • Text box is rectangle
    • filled white
    • 95% opacity
  • Border of box has drop shadow
    • angle 315,
    • colour black,
    • offset 12,
    • opacity 80%,
    • blur 7.
  • Font
    • Arial bold,
    • font size flexible,
    • colour black.
    • Left aligned.
    • To make it fade out, use animation and reduce opacity to 45%
  • Box should fade in and out, duration flexible

Arrows and lines

  • Sketch motion
    • Should be bright pink : rgb 236, 24, 112
    • thickness 9 (may vary),
    • draw time 0.5 (may vary).