Produce clean AI narration and understand its limits
Assemble a short video from stills + narration + captions
Apply accessibility basics: captions and pacing
Narration and music for free
Free TTS (text-to-speech) tools and free music libraries let a solo learner sound like a studio. Write narration in short sentences, add commas for breath, spell out numbers the way they should be read. Listen back at 1.2x to catch errors fast.
Stills-to-video is a real format
Most 'videos' online are moving stills: Ken Burns pans over images, captions, one voice. Tools like CapCut or Canva Video do this free. Structure: hook (3s), promise (5s), three beats, call to action. That is the format of every lesson video in this course.
Accessibility is professionalism
Burn in captions (many watch muted), keep text on screen 3+ seconds, use high-contrast type, and speak one idea per sentence. Accessible content is simply better content for everyone.
Key terms
TTS
Text-to-speech synthesis of narration.
Ken Burns effect
Slow pan/zoom over a still image.
Burned-in captions
Captions rendered into the video pixels.
Hook
Opening seconds that earn continued attention.
🛠 Hands-on task: 60-second stills video
Tools: CapCut / Canva Video + free TTS
Script 60s of narration (hook, promise, 3 beats, CTA).
Generate/collect 5 images; assemble in CapCut/Canva.
Add captions + one music bed at low volume; export 720p.
Key takeaways: Before you go, three takeaways from this lesson. One: Produce clean AI narration and understand its limits. Two: Assemble a short video from stills + narration + captions. Three: Apply accessibility basics: captions and pacing. And your hands-on task: 60-second stills video. Script 60s of narration (hook, promise, 3 beats, CTA). When it is done, mark the lesson complete on your dashboard, keep the artifact for your portfolio, and step into the next lesson. I will see you there.
