If you have already made the decision to produce some animated videos for your firm, you have made a wise decision.
No doubt about it, video marketing is one of the best marketing strategies, and probably the most effective.
Arguably, videos offer you the best way to approach tricky topics like product marketing.
Firms not doing video marketing in the modern age are giving their competitors a chance to outperform them. Also, they risk falling behind their competitors and missing out on massive amounts of leads and traffic.
Having made the decision to take the plunge, your next steps are how to get started and create videos that you and your business can be proud of.
How to get started with your animated video
Thinking about where to start scripting your video is your first job. You will be surprised how effective even the shortest animated videos can be if you plan them carefully.
Creating your own animation is now super easy. There are so many great tools out there to create impressive video content to engage your audience. Even with limited budgets, you can easily produce great video content such as explainer videos.
You can use such videos to inform your potential customers of what you do, and your brand values. In short, animated videos can be used to quickly get your key messages across to your potential customers.
Although there is the temptation to produce a corporate video by yourself, this is not a wise move. A good corporate video production company can help you plan your messages and produce graphics. Also, they can help you mesh the work into a final product that you can be proud of.
Choosing the right agency
Animated video producers are becoming more and more common as the demand for video grows. This is both a good thing and a bad thing from a buyers’ point of view.
On the good side, it gives you a multitude of choices of agencies, and it makes it a buyers’ market. On the bad side, knowing how to find the right partner can take more and more time with so many options to choose from.
When thinking about which agency to run with, make a shortlist of candidates by using a simple Google search. Then scrutinise your shortlisted candidates by looking at their portfolio of work, and their style and skills they have used for their other clients.
Ask yourself whether you were impressed by their work and whether the videos effectively drew out the main selling points of the businesses they were representing.
A good video agency should be looking at that, and not just at visual elements. They should be challenging their customers to get the best end product, and producing videos that don’t just look good but produce leads and traffic.
Building a good storyboard
Creating a good storyboard is the foundation for a good video. Bringing your audience on a journey, even in a short video, is key to getting the right results from your video.
So test out your agency’s work for this, and see if you feel part of a journey when watching some of their other work. Does their work build a connection with the audience, or is it bland and generic?
Arrange to meet your chosen video agency either face-to-face or on a video call. This will enable you to press the flesh and see if they are the right people to work with.
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