These days, many people use videos to help with their marketing and other corporate efforts. After all, a good video can easily go viral, which can help a company to surge in popularity and gain success. However, it’s important to note that most good videos are not just shot using someone’s phone. Instead, the best videos, the ones most likely to reach a wide audience and to make their desired impact, are professionally created and produced by experts. For this reason, it’s advisable for all people looking to make serious videos to hire a professional team for the job. Still not convinced? Then consider these five ways professionally produced videos are better than amateur videos.
Work Toward Specific Goals
To begin with, when a person works with a professional video production company, such as Rocket Productions, their video is sure to have purpose and work toward achieving a specific goal. Professional companies know that videos should be made with a clear result in mind. This desired result might be simply to entertain and help an organization gain popularity, to market a product, or to pass on information. Whatever the case, a video production company will help you figure out what you want the video to achieve and then work to create a video that has your desired impact.
Benefit from Professional Writing
When businesses attempt to make “homemade” videos, the writing is often less than desirable. In fact, in many cases, inexperienced people will try to create videos on the fly, without even coming up with a script. As one might imagine, this is not advisable. A good, professional video should and will start with an excellent script written by a professional, experienced video scriptwriter. Not only does this equate to a better final result, but it also gives businesses the chance to view and approve or request changes to a script before any money is spent producing the video.
Enjoy Professional Equipment
One of the best things about professionally produced videos is that they are made with professional equipment. When people attempt to create videos on their own, they either have to work with second-rate equipment and produce a low-quality video or spend a lot of money on equipment they’re not likely to get much use out of or know how to use properly. Thus, it just makes sense to rely on a professional company with quality cameras, lighting equipment, microphones, and more.
Rely On Excellent Editing
When amateurs record videos, they often don’t really know how to properly edit the footage. This means they might shoot the video all in one take, which is nearly impossible to do perfectly. Or, they might have obvious edits that don’t look natural and distract from the video’s content. A professional, on the other hand, can create seamless, natural editing that makes a video flow smoothly from beginning to end and that combines the very best clips from the video footage.
Create Based on Research
Finally, professional videos are never just created haphazardly. Instead, a lot of research goes into them, at least with good production companies. These companies work with the business to understand its goals, products or services, and target audience. Then, research is done on the best and most effective marketing strategies for the given business and how to reach the intended audience. All of that research helps to create a more effective video.
Ultimately, there are many differences between amateur and professional videos. And, it’s very clear that, on just about every front, professional videos win out. Thus, businesses are encouraged to do things right from the start by designing every video with the help of a professional team.
Troy is an editor, book coach, author of over 32 novels and several works of non-fiction, and the education lead for Plottr. He lives, works, and plays in Boise, Idaho.
Passionate about writing dark psychological thrillers, he is an avid cyclist, skier, hiker, all-around outdoorsman, and a terrible beginning golfer.