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Rethinking Business Videos

The web accelerates cultural trends.  Movies took almost 30 years to transition entirely to color.  TV took about 5 to go from black & white to color, and more recently took 6 years to transition to HD.  Web video was born in color, and HD is the norm now.

If you did business videos a few years back, you need to upgrade.  It would be nice to imagine that the videos you created for next to nothing a couple of years ago will continue to work.  But they won’t, for the same reason that most 1980s TV shows and 1940s movies aren’t worth a lot today.  They look slow.  They look old fashioned.  The technology and quality revolution have passed them by.

Your business may just be waking up to its need for video on the web, but you have to join the curve where it is now.  You’ll need good technology and good storytelling. Lame informational web video is DOA.

The question businesses should be asking themselves is not “what’s my ROI on higher quality videos?”  It’s “Will anyone watch them if I don’t upgrade? And what will it cost me if they don’t?”

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Steve Stockman

Steve Stockman, president of LA-based Custom Productions, Inc., is a prolific producer, writer, and director, known for over 200 diverse media projects. He is also the author of the best-selling book "How to Shoot Video that Doesn’t Suck," taught globally from middle school to graduate level, and available in 9 languages.

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  • Steve, That was a great video! I couldn't stop watching even thought I had 10 other more important things to do and I have no interest in the glass industry. Do you have any idea how much it cost to make? I can't even guess. Thanks. –Dale

  • Bill Fields says:

    Steve what are the elements of a good business video. Hero, beginning, middle and end. I know it has to entertain and not put the audience to sleep. Good story telling do you have any examples of a good business video?

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