Promotional Videos
Promotional videos are the perfect way to combine the skills of making TV commercials with your love of your school! Use the guidelines and directions for making TV commercials or PSAs to design high quality promotional videos.
Mandatory Requirements:
Watch the following examples to help guide and inspire you:
Mandatory Requirements:
- Choose an event, ASA, club, idea or anything else you would love to promote or that you know someone else at school wants you to promote.
- Teach us all about what you are promoting.
- Write a fun story that incorporates the promotion.
- Teach us the who, what, where, when, why, and how.
- Keep it short and sweet.
- Have fun, make it entertaining.
- Bring your props, costumes, and other materials to class each day.
- Create a clever title and use it at the beginning and end of your film.
- Use the perfect font and text size, and display the title in a creative way at the beginning.
- Write any dialogue or instructions far in advance and triple check your grammar.
- All text is on the screen long enough for slow readers to comprehend.
- For actors or voiceovers you must use high quality microphones.
- Incorporate the amazing cinematography you learned in Boot Camp - 13+ angles to choose from
- Perfect lighting
- Perfect focus.
- Lots of cuts - avoid long shots - use many quick cuts here and there - the audience will understand time went by and appreciate the faster paced video.
- Royalty free background music - instrumental only.
- No ending credits.
- "Fade to color" transition at beginning and end
Watch the following examples to help guide and inspire you:
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