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This is the method behind everything else on this site. A scenario-based training video does not explain the rule. It shows a person in a situation, making a choice, and living with what follows. The learner works out the principle themselves, which is why they remember it.
It matters most on the topics people resist. Bias, feedback, harassment, conduct, safety shortcuts, difficult conversations: subjects where everybody knows the correct answer in the abstract and behaves differently under pressure. A definition changes nothing there. A recognizable situation does.
UBC Canada District commissioned a six-part instructor development series on exactly this territory. The YWCA, the Manitoba Nurses Union and New Gold have all used the same approach. Production starts at $2,500 and a single video typically takes two to four weeks.
Six projects built around situations rather than definitions, covering feedback, bias, workplace conduct, values under pressure and accessibility.
We look for the moment things go wrong. Usually it is small: a comment in a meeting, a decision made while rushing, an assumption nobody checks. We interview people who have watched it happen, build a shortlist of scenarios your audience will recognize immediately, then pick the ones carrying the most learning per second.
Scripts are written as scenes with characters who have reasons for what they do, including the ones behaving badly. Nothing lands if the wrong choice looks stupid, because then nobody sees themselves in it. We storyboard the full scene, and the animatic stage is where we test whether the moment actually reads.
You receive the masters, captions and transcripts, plus discussion prompts if the video is going into a facilitated session. Scenario videos are frequently stronger as a conversation starter than as a standalone module, and we will tell you when that is the case.
Scenario work is harder than explanation. It needs characters, dialogue, pacing and restraint, and it fails badly when done half-heartedly. It has been our core method for seventeen years, which is the only reason we recommend it as confidently as we do.
The character who makes the wrong call has to be sympathetic and their reasoning has to be recognizable. Otherwise the audience concludes the video is about someone else, and the learning goes nowhere.
You cannot stage a harassment scenario with real employees, and you should not try. Animation lets uncomfortable situations be shown honestly, keeps everyone anonymous, and means the video does not date when the cast changes.
A video that teaches through a dramatized situation rather than direct explanation. The viewer watches a character face a realistic decision, sees the choice made and the consequence, and draws the principle out for themselves. It borrows from case-method teaching and from drama, and it works because people remember stories and forget rules.
When the barrier is behavior rather than knowledge. If people do not know how a system works, explain it. If they know the right thing and do the other thing anyway, explanation has already failed and a scenario is the better tool.
The research on narrative and situated learning is consistent that context aids recall and transfer, and it matches what our clients report. Rather than quote a statistic at you, we would suggest agreeing a completion or behavior measure before production and comparing it against your existing library.
Usually ninety seconds to three minutes. A scenario needs enough time to establish a situation, which is longer than a bare explanation, but the moment loses its charge if it is drawn out. Multi-part series work well, with each episode taking a different situation.
We do, from interviews with people inside your organization. The credibility comes entirely from the detail, so scenarios are built from things that have actually happened, generalized enough that nobody is identifiable.
They are the strongest option for exactly those topics, and animation is why. Nobody has to act out a harassment scenario, no employee appears in the video, and difficult moments can be shown honestly without being lurid. Much of our work in this area is for unions and public sector employers.
Not necessarily, though a facilitated version is usually stronger. Scenario videos are natural discussion starters: pause at the decision point, ask the room what they would do, then play the consequence. We can supply prompts and a facilitator note alongside the video.
From $2,500 for a single video. Scenario work sits at the higher end of that range when it needs bespoke character design and a full cast of voices. A series is quoted as a project and costs less per episode, since the characters and the world are built once.
