Premium Video Storytelling For Families
TV Reporters & Filmmakers Help Families Hold On To Memories
United States of America - March 2022
- If you want to be remembered, you must tell an amazing story. Nothing is more powerfully human that a well-told story. That has been true since the dawn of time.
While those first stories might have been grunts and animated gestures by early man around the tribe's nightly fire, it eventually transitioned to cave drawings, spoken word, then writing, radio, TV and so on.
Today video is one of the most powerful mediums used to tell a story.
While our technology startup initially began to develop a proprietary video storytelling service to help brands shut out by the professional video and motion picture production industry, we are now bringing that same premium service to families throughout this country using a network of experienced independent filmmakers and television journalists.
We created our service to help consumers celebrate important family milestones and hold onto memories of loved ones. We are diving into this untapped market because we believe everyone matters and deserves to be remembered.
As the founder of STORYSMART, our mission to provide STORYTELLING FOR ALL is deeply personal. I lost my father when I was five years old. I have since been haunted by a sense of not knowing my father. I don't want anyone else to have that same experience.
Through our unique service, we are able to help connect loved ones in a personal and powerful way through beautiful video storytelling provided by a network of gifted storytellers.
In developing this premium service for consumers, we are using the same proprietary STORYSMART brand journalism production model we pioneered to help businesses connect authentically with customers.
We specialize in helping those who are largely shut out by the existing professional production industry. Most professional production companies cater to sophisticated buyers who must act as a general contractor on their own video project. That simply doesn't work for most of us. We don't have the time or expertise needed to be smart about the process. The fact is you could DIY or spend the equivalent of the GDP of a small country in buying a video. Or anything in between.
The production industry's bias for customization, along with an almost universal lack of pricing and process transparency means that most consumers and small businesses won't consider hiring a professional to produce a video. It isn't even in their heads as a possibility.
It is sort of like the iPhone. Steve Jobs invented something that consumers had no idea they wanted until the actually saw one. Then they had to have it.
The key to accessibility is designing a production model that makes sense. That is what Henry Ford did with Model T. He didn't invent the car. Credit the French and Germans for that. The automobile had been around for three decades before Ford made it accessible to the middle class.
That is what we seek to do with our growing startup. We want to make high-quality, professional video and motion storytelling accessible to all.
So how are we trying to do it? By doing things a different way. In an industry defined by boutique customization and a lack of transparency for pricing and process, we are following a more commoditized approach. We provide an efficiently scoped, transparently priced premium service that customers can access through a simple web interface.
You can see our pricing on the website. We do our best to define the service in a way consumers understand. As we get more proofs of concept done, consumers will be able to see specific examples. Once our APP is out there it will all come together in a way we hope will transform an industry in need of modernization.
To deliver our service, we employ a nationwide network of freelance television journalists and filmmakers who are all experienced storytellers. We are operating from the fundamental belief that a trained storytellers will do a better job telling your story than you would yourself.
While I love how technology has democratized the process of creating a video and empowered anyone creative to do amazing production, let's face the facts that no app will turn you into Spike Lee, Sofia Coppala or Steven Spielberg.
Our service is both simple and revolutionary at the same time. You hire us to have a professional tell your story. You own the work outright - copyright and all. I use the analogy that our service is akin to hiring an experienced ghost writer to write your book.
Let us know when you are ready to turn that drawer full of photos into an amazing story that will ensure you will always be remembered. #OwnYourStory #getStorySMART with premium video and motion picture storytelling as a service.
