How to turn a written case study into a scene a class can discuss
Give Vizard Agent the written case and ask it to find a shot for each behaviour the case describes rather than for each noun. It sources the beats separately (distraction, exclusion, a supportive conversation), lays every candidate out on one sheet to check they read as the same class, and closes on question cards so the video ends where the discussion starts.
What do you type into Vizard Agent?
Describe the behaviour rather than the props. "A student on her phone" returns somebody posing with a phone for a stock photographer; "a student checking her phone while her group carries on working around her" returns the situation the case is actually about. Vizard Agent builds the visuals from the behaviours in the text.
Prompt
What does Vizard Agent actually do?
Most of the work is sourcing footage, organised beat by beat through the case rather than by subject matter. Each clip can be plausible on its own and still look wrong beside the others, so the clips have to be chosen as a set. In the session behind this article it:
- Read the case and identified its beats.
- Searched for a pupil distracted by a phone during class work, for collaborative work between other students, and for a supportive conversation between young people.
- Turned comparison and social pressure, which the case is about but never names as a noun, into a search of its own.
- Searched for reflection shots to sit behind the question cards, because a card over a black screen reads as the end of the video.
- Downloaded a candidate for each beat, including a phone being hidden, built one contact sheet of every clip and inspected the frames together to pick the ones that cohere.
- Checked the supporting images worked as backgrounds and cards.
When does this not work well?
Cases that turn on something invisible are hard to film. Internal states, long time spans and anything that hinges on what a person is thinking won't be carried by stock footage, so narration or text has to do that work. A very specific setting is hard to match, a case with a named outcome is a story rather than a discussion, and some sensitive cases shouldn't be dramatised at all.
Common questions
Do I need to film real students? No, and you shouldn't. Vizard Agent builds the case from stock.
Can it suggest the questions? Yes. Ask Vizard Agent for open questions rather than ones with an answer.
Will the clips look like one class? Only if they're chosen together, which is why Vizard Agent checks them on one contact sheet.