Produce Videos Like the Pros

10X Business Letter
San Diego, Ca
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Dear 10X Business Builder,

In this video you will discover a very cool strategy that advertisers use when creating ads, including SuperBowl Commercials. You can apply this strategy to improve your video Marketing.

The strategy is to use the 3 S’s of professional film making to make your videos more engaging.

To simplify, the “3s” are:

The First S is for Sequence
A Sequence is a series of events that combined tell your story. For example, let’s say the story I want to tell is about someone that is going to the gym, then running outside in a park and then jumping in the pool. That is my overall story and my sequence of events.

The Second S is for Scene
A sequence has several scenes. A scene is an event that takes place entirely in one location or time. In our example here, you can have different scenes at the park, like a scene showing a person running on a trail,  a scene by the picnic table, a scene by the rock garden, another scene by the other picnic table, or by the bench.

And the Third S is for Shot
A Shot is just one single image. If there is a cut, there is a shot. Usually, you have several shots in a scene. For example, we can get the “garden scene” in the park and have several shots describing one specific  scene. In this quick example I have several shots focusing on one specific plant, I can zoom in, zoom out, move sideways, move the camera up and down, etc.

Why is this important to you?

Because when you use different sequences, scenes and shots you:

• Tell a story that is really engaging
• Grab your audience’s focus, which is huge
• Communicate more in less time

I want to give you some example that top notch advertisers used when creating the Super bowl commercials below.

To simplify, I just counted how many unique cuts these commercials have, either cutting to a different scene or cutting to a different shot. In other words, in a 1 minute commercial, how many times they “cut” and showed you something different (a different shot or a different scene)

Here are the Superbowl commercials:

How do you use this information?

By applying the 10 Second Rule.

When you are doing Video Marketing, try to cut your video every 10-seconds and show something that will add value to your overall story. Here are some ideas:

• Use a different shot in the same scene
• Show different scenes, for example “the gym” and “the pool”
• Show a video with no sound to add to the point you are making
• You can cut and use a picture
• Or you can cut and show text

The idea it to cut and show something that will ADD to your overall video and help you communicate a story that is more engaging and that grabs your audience’s attention….

 

P.S. We have 4 information packed Video Marketing modules online if you want even more on how to use video marketing to gain and attain more business. Check out Video Marketing Volume 1 HERE!