Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Repetition avoidance

You would think that the part of my elearning job that requires me to review the website material before releasing it to the client would be easy. After all, it involves clicking through all the components and then listening to whatever audio and/or video components are on the site to make sure they say what they're supposed to say.

The only problem is that at the end of the project, listening to those audio and video components AGAIN is about the LAST thing I want to do! At the end of the project I've already:
  • read through the materials provided by the client and/or discussed the project content with them
  • scripted the content for audio/video appropriate format/language
  • been at the video shoot/audio recording, including all the re-takes/re-records
  • (in some cases) been in the editing suite while the editor completes final edits of multimedia content
  • listened to/watched all audio or video to ensure it was recorded correctly before sending it to the web developer
So the final quality assurance of the video and audio component will be at minimum, the sixth time I've heard the same material.  

Sometimes, it's just really hard to listen to it just ONE more time...!

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