Plan Before You Commence Shooting Your Video Product

Plan Before You Commence Shooting Your Video Product

In order for you to create a good quality video product, you need to have a good solid plan in place. This will not only save you time, but it will also minimize the frustration, and you will end up producing a much better final video product.

So you will need to spend time researching your subject, writing a script (if you need one) and then layout the video production plan before you beginning recording.

When producing any video product, it is best to start at the end. It is important that you know what you are going to do with the video product once it has been produced. Are you just going to use it on your website or are you going to burn it to a CD or DVD for your customers? Or are you going to allow them to download it directly as part of an offer with the product that you are promoting?

If you need to, create a storyboard before you beginning shooting. This will provide you with a good idea of the shoots that you will need.

If you have the chance, clean up the hard drive on your computer. Unfortunately, video takes up huge amounts of space. In fact 1 minute of video can require up to 100mb or more of a computers hard drive (this all depends on several different factors). So therefore, the more room you have, the more flexibility you will have for the actual editing process. If you will be producing either large or multiple projects then it may well be worth considering investing in a FireWire Hard Drive.

So with a good plan to hand, the actual recording of the video should go smoothly and provide you with plenty of material for the editing process.

Remember, the better the quality of the original material produced then the better the quality your final video product will be.