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How do I choose a video production company?
Why produce a video in the first place?
Why should I choose Eagle Video?
How much does a video
cost?
What
questions will Eagle Video ask us?
How long does it take to make a video?
What are the steps to making a custom video?
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How do I choose a video production company?
Ask these questions when selecting a video production company:
• Do you like their
demo
reel?
• Did they answer all your video questions?
• Can they do it for a reasonable price?
• Do they have the experience to tackle your project?
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Do they offer BetaSP or DVCam formats?
• Do you trust the
contact
person?
• Can they meet your deadline?
• Do they understand your business?
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Can they show you a
comprehensive client list?
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Will they provide client
testimonials?
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Why produce a video in the first place?
We are here to help you either
SAVE your company money or MAKE your company money. It’s all
about improving your bottom line—right? Here at Eagle Video this is what
we live for --- helping our clients succeed.
An effective training
DVD can SAVE your company thousands in trainer costs and participant
travel expenses. At the same time an effective training video will
present a consistent, well thought-out and highly visual
message. By the way, it can be entertaining too! DVD chapters can help
participants with non-linear learning. Presentations can be in English or
Spanish or French or….whatever you need. Video is a great tool when you
need to repeat a presentation many times for many people in many places.
A short exciting marketing video can educate and electrify your customers
with your company products and services, increasing your sales. We will
go to your location and capture your products and services while
highlighting all the features and benefits that you offer your customers.
We can loop your marketing DVD for trade shows and utilize the 99 channels
of subtitling for different languages. Plus anything that we produce for
DVD, we can make available as streaming video clips on your company
website.
Ideas to SAVE
money for your company:
Training DVD
Recruitment program
Safety video
Corporate presentation
Instructional DVD
Employee Information
Ideas to MAKE money
for your company:
Marketing Video
Product Demo
Looping Trade Show DVD
Video News Release (VNR)
Web Clips
Fund-raising video
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Why should I choose Eagle Video?
Eagle Video Productions, Inc. offers more than 30 years of award-winning production expertise along with the dedication to learn your business, create the best message, always on budget and
always on deadline ---every time. You will be working with video professionals who take extreme pride in their work. We put the "pro" in production.
Read what our clients say about us -
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How much does a video cost?
What if someone asked "How much does a house cost?" You might say
"it depends on a lot of factors. I need a little more information. Do you have any blue prints for your dream home? Did the bank tell you how much house can you afford?" These questions are analogous to the process in budgeting for a custom video production.
A lot of variables must be identified and analyzed before a fair and
proper video production budget can be created. See below for a
typical list of variables. Although we budget a video by line items, we can say
estimate that a typical video can cost between $1500
to $5000 per finished minute, depending on those same line item costs.
Video productions can be expensive, so you have to view them as long term
investments. Contracting for a $20,000 video with a shelf life of
five years means you are budgeting $4000 a year for five years. Now
you can see a return on your investment. An effective training DVD
can save your company thousands of dollars a year in travel costs alone.
In the meantime you have an effective training tool that has a carefully
thought-out, clear, concise and consistent message.
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What
questions will Eagle Video ask us?
• Who is your target audience?
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What is your message?
• What is the purpose of your video?
• What visual and graphical elements do you want to show?
• Where do we have to travel to get these elements?
• How many minutes do you think the program should last?
• What is the estimated shelf life of your video?
• Who will be the subject matter expert on this video?
• Who will be approving the scripts and offline edits?
• What is your deadline? What is driving your deadline?
• How much do you have budgeted to spend on your video?
• Can we re-purpose video elements for other
uses- like a company web-site?
• When can we get started? |
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Here are just some of the line items in a typical video budget: |
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• Scripting |
• Shooting Days |
• Travel |
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Animation |
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Graphics |
• Narration |
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• Set Design |
• Editing |
• Props |
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How long does it take to make a video?
You can count on several months timeline from first meeting to completed master. Just like
building a custom home, some projects can take shorter or longer. The client can minimize the process time by limiting the number of company people involved in the approval process, making sure there is a professional subject matter expert (SME) at each shooting location and budgeting enough pre-production planning time to adequately prepare for the project. |
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What are the steps to making a custom video?
Plan
Planning meetings determine budget, scope, audience and objective of the video.
Script Writing
Next we synthesize your company's materials and ideas and come up with several draft scripts.
Production
After a final shooting script is approved, shooting and graphics design begins. After all the principal shooting and interviews are complete, a final editing script is written and approved.
All video footage is "ingested" into our computers for editing.
Narration
Just before editing begins, we produce a narrator track, using
professional voice talent resources from around the world. At this
time, we select music cuts from our music libraries or produce custom
music tracks.
Editing
We use approved editing script to craft a rough draft of the edited video.
We may edit several versions of program.
DVD Authoring
After program has been approved, we begin authoring a DVD master, creating
menus, chapters, buttons and transitions. Upon approval of the
master, DVD discs are either duplicated or replicated, based on customer
needs.
The 10 Step
Video Production Process
1) Get outline ideas from you and read all company collateral and website
info
2) Develop a shooting script – get approval
3) Videotape all shots required by the shooting script – import into
editing computer
4) Transcribe any interviews/testimonials – add into editing script – get
approval
5) Gather any client photos that can be incorporated into the program
6) Record professional narration and select library music|
7) Edit video program – get approval
8) Author DVD master – develop chapters and add subtitling if necessary
9) Submit DVD for approval
10) Deliver DVD copies to client
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