Step 1 – Pre-Production

What is the purpose?

Who is your target audience?

What is your budget?

Step 2 – Concept Development

Write a script

Include branding

Review with client

Step 3 – Practice

Inflections

Smile

Pauses

Voice coach

Step 4 – Styling

No whites / No stripes or crazy prints

Include colors of the brand, logos

Props

Step 4 – Video Production

Good audio:  no a/c, no cars, no airplanes, no construction, no cell phones!

Camera angles: wide, tight, and medium.  (Don’t forget your establishing shot.)

B roll: drones, location, time-lapse

Step 5 –  Post Production / Video Editing

Assemble the script

Add B roll

Audio levels (-6db)

Intro

Titles

Music (not too loud  -12db)

Motion Graphics

Animation

Sound Design (it’s worth every penny)