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Onboarding video example
This onboarding video example walks a new starter's first day in a fictional HR portal, and the script with per step seconds is below. Four steps cover profile, bank details, policies and the first week plan, the checklist scene turns Friday's obligations into four ticks, and a drawn three card scene answers the question every new starter actually has: who do I ask.
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Linen look, Erinome, instructional female voice, English. Exported at 16:9.
The brief that made it
Onboarding tutorial for the Wren HR portal: complete your profile, add bank details, acknowledge three policies, view your first week plan. End with what to finish by Friday.
The script, scene by scene
Every narration line with the scene it sits on and how long it runs. Useful whether you build the video here or write your own.
- Scene 1intro5s
- Welcome. Your first day in Wren, in four steps.
- Scene 2tutorial7s
- Complete your profile: photo, phone, emergency contact.
- Scene 3tutorial7s
- Add your bank details under Pay; they are checked before the first run.
- Scene 4tutorial8s
- Read and acknowledge the three policies; each has a button at the end.
- Scene 5tutorial7s
- Your first week plan is under Home, with your buddy's name.
- Scene 6checklist8s
- By Friday: profile, bank details, policies, meet your buddy.
- Scene 7how_it_works4s
- Questions go to your buddy first, then the People team.
- Scene 8outro4.1s
- See you Monday.
The checklist is the deliverable
The four steps show where things are; the checklist scene is what the starter is meant to retain. Profile complete, bank details in, policies ticked, meet your buddy, four rows ticking in one after another under "By Friday". Framing onboarding as a deadline with four items converts a vague first week into a completable task, and it gives the manager a shared reference: on Friday the question is simply which ticks are missing. The checklist scene holds four ruled rows; a grid variant takes six if your week one list is longer.
Each step carries its why
The bank details step does not just say where to type the BSB; the narration adds "they are checked before the first run", which is the reason to do it today rather than next week. The policies step says each document has its acknowledge button at the end, pre-empting the starter who reads all three and wonders why nothing is recorded. Onboarding steps get skipped when they read as bureaucracy, so every step here pairs the action with its consequence. The warm five second intro sets the same register: this is a welcome, not a compliance drill.
Who to ask, drawn not written
The second to last scene is a drawn three card sequence: buddy first, the People team through Home, and payroll by phone when it is urgent. Escalation paths are usually a paragraph in a wiki nobody finds during the exact moment they need it; three cards in the video the starter watched on day one is a better place for that knowledge to live. The portal screens are hand built mocks of the fictional Wren; a real version should capture real screens on a test employee account so no colleague's data appears in the frames.
What makes this video work
Friday is the frame
The checklist scene turns the first week into four ticks with a deadline. A starter and a manager now share one definition of onboarded for week one.
Every action has its consequence
Bank details are checked before the first pay run, policies record only when the end button is pressed. Steps that carry their why get done; steps that read as admin get deferred.
The escalation path is a scene
Buddy, People team, urgent phone line as three drawn cards. Who to ask is the most re-needed fact in week one, and here it lives inside the video rather than a wiki.
Questions people ask
One long video or several short ones?
One topic per video. This one covers the portal's first day tasks and stops; equipment, tools and team introductions each deserve their own short walkthrough on their own link. Short videos get rewatched at the moment of need, which is the entire value of onboarding video.
Can I open with a welcome from the CEO?
Not inside tutorial mode, which offers the intro, step, overview, checklist and outro scene types and never plays uploaded clips. A CEO welcome works better as its own promo mode video with a clip scene, linked beside this one, so the walkthrough stays a walkthrough.
How do new starters receive it?
A share link that opens a live player page in the browser, no file and no login to a video tool. Put the link in the offer pack or the day one email. When the portal changes and you update the video, the same link serves the new version.
Are captions on for accessibility?
On by default, per scene, derived from each step's narration, typing on word by word in a dark pill at the bottom of the frame. For onboarding content captions matter twice over: accessibility, and the fact that day one is often watched in an open office without headphones.
Can the checklist hold more than four items?
The ruled row scene holds four; a grid variant ticks six. More than six by Friday is a policy problem, not a video problem. Split obligations into by Friday and by end of month, and give the second list its own scene or its own video.
Does exporting this cost anything?
Videos over 30 seconds cost one credit to export, and synthesising the narration is one credit per clip. The share link itself is free and plays the current state, so many teams share the link and only export an MP4 when the LMS demands a file.
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