Your Premium Profile Video Step By Step

St. Louis, MO – May 15, 2022 - Everyone deserves to have their story told in an amazing way on screen by a professional filmmaker or video storytelling journalist.

StorySMART developed our premium profile video storytelling service to empower anyone to have a professional television journalist or filmmaker tell their story on screen with a memorable broadcast quality video that is sold as a cost-certain high-quality premium service.

In this post, we will take you step by step through our process that is designed to ensure you get that amazing on screen story you truly deserve.

Our premium video profile story is a 3 to 5 minute broadcast television quality video profile of an individual that is produced following interviews of up to four people at a single location or some combination of the interviews can take place virtually over Skype or Zoom.

The nature of the profile depends upon what the client wants. It all comes down to who they want to profile and why.

Examples of the types of people who might engage us include:

·A career professional looking to land that next big job may want a high-quality professional video biography

·A high-school athlete looking to get a college scholarship might want a video profile to go on a landing page to reach  a college recruiter

·Someone retiring after a career full of accomplishment may want to remember their incredible journey

·A couple celebrating a milestone anniversary.

Who is profiled and why is entirely up to our clients. We have designed our process to ensure each client gets a premium quality professionally produced profile that is personalized, polished and memorable.

Step 1 – Ordering a Premium Profile Video

The first step in the process is letting us know you want a premium profile video by filling out the form on the website. We will ask some basic questions to get a sense of the story you want our help telling.

Step 2 – Signing A Contract and Paying Your Deposit

Once you have let us know you would like our help telling your story, we will send you a contract and invoice you for your deposit. The contract ensures you will own the intellectual property rights of your story once we are finished with production and you have fully paid the balance due.

Step 3 – Our Proprietary Pre Production “SMART” Intake

Once you have signed the contract and paid your deposit, we will schedule a pre production planning zoom call with you to go through our proprietary intake process. If we have already assigned the reporter who will tell your story, the reporter will join us for the call.

During the short call, we will gain a much better understanding of your vision for the story. We will identify the purpose, key message themes and all of the other details including who the reporter will interview, as well as when and where we will shoot the video.

Following the call, we will send a form with all the details we discussed in order for you to review and confirm we have everything correct.

Step 4 – You Provide Any Photos, Videos, Logos or Other Digital Assets

You will be responsible for providing any digital assets you want included in your video before we conduct the video shoot on location. We will provide you with a free cloud folder to upload your assets to in advance of the shoot. It is important we have these materials in advance of the reporter editing your video so there is no delay in producing the video.

Step 5 – The Video Shoot
The storyteller assigned to tell your story will conduct up to four interviews at the location you selected for the production shoot. It will be your responsibility for securing the location and getting permission for everyone involved.

The video production shoot on location typically will last no more than two hours, accounting for setting up and breaking down. The individual on-camera interviews won't take long, typically lasting around five to ten minutes each. The storyteller spends the balance of time shooting b-roll.

Step 6 – Reviewing Your Video
Following the production shoot on location, our storyteller will prepare your story on the timeline we agreed upon. Using the on-camera interviews and footage they shot, as well as any digital assets (photos, logos, home video) you provided us in advance, the storytelling will edit your story. They will add professional graphics, transitions and music. You will receive a polished draft to review on our agreed upon schedule. Typically, our reporter has a week following the production shoot to prepare the first draft. You will have the same amount of time to offer your feedback.

We make it easy for clients to leave their feedback directly on the timeline of the video using our easy interface. You are entitled to at least two rounds of edits at no charge. We encourage you to refer back to the intake form to make sure the story aligns with what we scoped out.

Once you have approved the video and paid the balance on your account, you will own your story. In addition to the video, we also provide you with a written post to accompany the story when you share it online. If you purchased the rights on the raw footage, we provide you those files via a cloud folder where you may download them.

This is your story. The visuals will come from the interviews and the b-roll our reporter captures on location, as well as any photographs and video you give us prior to the reporter editing the video.

It will be very important for you to organize your visuals in advance of our work, clearly marking everything so we are able to work efficiently and get everything right. If you want photos to be included in the video, we will need these prior to the production shoot on location. We would like those items in advance of the interviews and prior to editing your story.

We have designed our process to ensure you get the story you want and you will own it forever.

You deserve to have your story told on screen in a memorable way because you deserve to be remembered.