So you’ve decided to write the script for your company’s trade show video. Why not? No one knows your company better than the people who make it run day in and day out. Before you start, however, it makes sense to look at some of the principles and techniques that have made other trade show video scripts successful and appealing
Monthly archive: 09 2009
Anyone working in the field of trade show marketing, and or business video production needs to know how to spell “trade show.” The two terms, “tradeshow,” and “trade show,” are often used interchangeably, and there is no agreement over which one of the two forms is more proper.
More and more, marketers are realizing the power of video advertising compared to traditional print ads. The reasons are manifold
We can appreciate the many meanings and usages of the word “quality,” by contrasting how the word is defined in philosophy and business. In philosophy, “quality” is a property of something., whereas in business the word “quality,” has a much more mundane and practical application.
In this age of more degrees, and more specialization, it is refreshing to find that one video production company has come up with a new approach for training aspiring videographers, that short-circuits the long and drawn out academic process.
This began to suggest one answer to my question; perhaps it is the content of the video which conveys professionalism.
Or can we say that a video conveying professionalism refers to a video produced in a professional manor, i.e. the media is the message?
Some things must be done rapidly and done right. Consider the steps in the reentry of a satellite from outer space. Consider the docking of two spaceships in outer space. Consider the movements of a vascular surgeon. And consider the short space of time that an advertiser at a trade show has impress a perspective client walking past his booth at a trade show
One truism in the modern video conscious world is that a web site with an online video is a more powerful website that is likely to have higher conversion rate, as well. Good video content is, to put it succinctly, compelling, entertaining, and enlightening.
While video production for the producer can mean long hours in the editing room, frequently on weekends, the client’s reality is an unquenchable need for a finished product, on his desk, or in his computer, by Monday morning.