It’s been a busy few weeks but our latest corporate DVD is complete. It’s been a quick turnaround – from conception to completion in under two months – and we, and the client, are extremely pleased with the end product.
We’ve been making a DVD for Wiltshire Fire & Rescue about the training services they provide to prevent disasters from happening before they occur. The safety team provide elementary fire training to young children, present courses on safe driving for young adults, and deliver numerous safety checks in homes and on house boats. Making the DVD has been enormous fun and I’ve met so many people who are really professional at their jobs that it made me feel very proud of our emergency services.
DVDs are a great tool for communicating a message about your business. It may be that you want to take the business in a different direction or that you want to promote services that you already provide to generate new clients. There is always a story to be told about a business or a service and how it works, and with visuals it can hold the interest of the viewer and be used as a sales tool and to generate discussion.
Planning is a vital element whenever you make a broadcast item, whether for TV, the internet or for a company. There is always a limit to the budget, so it’s important to plan well to include the essential pictures and scenes that will tell the story you are trying to communicate. Every day filming is an expensive one, so each day out on the road is highly planned to make the most of the resources that you have. Experience does come into this. Fiona and I have been making items for broadcast for over twenty years and we were able to put together an excellent freelance crew for filming and editing, ensuring that we got lovely, big, close-ups and that the pictures knit together and make sense.
There have been some funny moments – watching Fiona’s eager canter reduce to a plodding ascent as she dutifully completed the tough climb up to the top of the fire training platform was my favourite. How we chuckled down below as we heard her puffs near the top. Sorry Fi! Not that I’d have liked being up that high – but the pictures were certainly worth it.
Our latest DVD is uploaded onto You Tube. If you would like to take a look follow this link
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Thanks for that Sue. I was rather impressed that I got up that tower without collapsing! It doesn’t look that high from the ground but when you are looking up it from directly below, the nerves kick in. Making this film was a wonderful experience and the outcome was stunning. Every box ticked!