Maximise Your Corporate Video Production Budget With These Great Tips

Corporate woman being interviewed as seen on camera monitor screen

If you are seeking the services of a professional corporate videographer in Sydney, Melbourne or Brisbane it’s understandable that you still want to be able to know how you can save money in regard to your video budget. Therefore, we share some valuable tips that you’ll be able to apply to save money for your corporate video production when you need the services of a corporate videographer.

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1. Use Our Storyboard Template To Draft Your Script/Story

1 Minute Media will supply you with a template storyboard as a perfect guide for you to draft your own. While still ensuring your video has all-important structure. we will enable you to reduce the overall cost of your corporate video. Our video production company has done the hard work and our template guides your company to design the storyboard to base your video on. When your company creates the storyboard, this will reduce costs for elements that are associated with the pre-production phase. Drafting the development of a storyboard yourself will help you to provide clear communication goals for your video. In fact, the usage of a storyboard is a powerful way to ensure the organisation of your list of shots to succinctly summarise your company key points.

2. Using In-House Talent For Your Videos

Many corporations have an extremely valuable resource for video production that may be under-utilised – talented staff! It’s really important for any video featuring talent, that you make a genuine connection in your video with your audience. Typical video styles that include talent are interviews, business profile videos and corporate overview videos. In a typical medium sized business in Sydney, there may be many suitable talent candidates for presenting in your video, to save on costs of professional talent. In order to present a video that resonates with your target audience, you sometimes need look no further than members of your sales or management teams to find experienced and professional presenters. Try asking your sales team if they’d like to present in your corporate video and see what the response is! Remember, your sales and management teams are constantly trained in presenting your key business points of difference to the public – presenting on video is often less difficult than presenting live to individuals or groups. Before booking professional talent, check for hidden resources in your on team in the pre-production phase of your video process.

3. Onsite Filming

Many of our clients at 1 Minute Media have beautiful premises that will provide authentic and invaluable backdrops for their video production. The major obstacle to filming onsite is usually the noise of a vibrant office, clinic or business organisation. Simply considering filming your video before or after hours, or on the weekend, can reduce your filming budget drastically. Our hard working team at 1 Minute Media aren’t afraid of early mornings or bringing production to you on the weekends, and in fact have provided these filming services, without additional fees, for a large number of our corporate video clients. For clients who don’t operate from a suitable premises, we have sourced some great “hidden” locations around Sydney, where council don’t require expensive filming permits. You’ll have to get in touch for us to divulge these as we don’t want to give these secret locations away to everyone, otherwise they’ll no longer be our best kept secret for our 1 Minute Media clients!

If you follow these simple tips, you will be pleased that you will be able to save a substantial amount of money for your corporate video budget when you are seeking the services of a corporate videographer Sydney. You will still be able to have a highly impactful video that will create the results that you desire. Our tips provide highly professional yet affordable video that resonate well with viewers to prompt them to buy your products and services.

Bio: As a co-founder of 1 Minute Media, Kathy has been instrumental in producing thousands of strategic videos for Australian businesses.

She has a unique background in education, service & sales, adding depth to everyone seeking to promote their business or organisation through video.