How To Create A Great Video Product - Writing Your Script
To start you do need to do some brainstorming for ideas and plots initially, I would say allow your self a few hours to start with. Do this brainstorming with a few friends. It helps to get different ideas, but set yourself a time limit and stick to it. Buy some large note books or get a white board and just jot ideas down as silly as they sound.
Set deadlines for yourself even when you think you don’t have to. Do not fool yourself into thinking that you’re making progress toward your goal when in fact you have not committed anything to paper.
You will need to focus on one project and carry it through to successful completion. Then you can start on a new one. If you have a brainstorm book
Set a day to shoot the video.
You have to do this and stick to it. Approach this as if you were doing a job for someone else. When you force yourself to get things done, you will start to notice a big difference in the results you get. How much time you give yourself depends on how much time you can actually spend working on the project, of course. If you’re doing this at night or on the weekends, you obviously need more time than a full-time Internet marketer who is planning a promotional video for a web site. Get up one hour earlier if that’s the only way you can find time to do it. Approach it as a job for one month. Set your shoot for one month from today. Stop thinking about it and start writing a script. Right NOW!
People who get things done know that there is never a perfect time to start. People who wait for inspiration before they start a script never get started. As the famous author Jack London said, “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” You have to get something down on paper today to trigger connections between ideas. My best ideas always come during the writing process-never in the “thinking about what to write” stage.
Experience has taught me to just start writing and get it all down on paper. When you write do not stop to correct spelling, grammar etc, just write.
A good idea is to take yourself somewhere anyway from your work area, go to a cafe, hotel lobby, or go for a walk and sit on a log.
By doing this you put your mind in a different mode, and you are able to write a lot better.
When you have a first draft in front of you, you will be. You will see all sorts of things you never would have seen without the stimulus of the thoughts that came seemingly out of nowhere as you were working on the first draft of my script.
So stop thinking about it and get a script on paper. Then revise, shoot it, and put it up for sale on the Internet. But get started today. And of course go back to stage one and start over, and very soon you will have a small catalogue of DVD/Videos.
Andrew Milburn, has been self employed for nearly 25 years. He Offers consultancy work to small businesses and loves helping those who need that “little Push” to get started. To learn more about using Video/DVD in your business pop a long to
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