Giving the Script to a Potential Client

[John Morley]

Bob,
Thanks for the kind words abut Scriptwriting for High-Impact Videos. I am pleased and honored that it is helping you to “coach” your clients toward more effective preproduction. And I certainly owe a lot of gratitude to Mark Suszko for telling you about my book.

Video is great at illusion. Its greatest illusion is that you just click record and say whatever occurs to you. The recording is easy, it’s the occurring that’s hard.

The audio version sounds like a good idea (as long as I can sell enough of them). I recently finished recording demonstrations for Movie Magic Screenwriter software, so I can sure take a stab at reading my own book out loud. As a proof of concept, let me know the next chapter you want to hear and I will record it as a .mov file. I imagine that you are better prepared than I to convert it into the format that would be best for your use.

And please keep in mind that if you or your clients need help with scriptwriting, that’s what I do for a living.
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[Bob O’hearn]

John,

Thanks for getting back to me. If you could record Chapter Five that would be great. I am a retired (hate that word) multimedia marketing manager. I spent 26 years in sales and marketing for two major pharmaceutical companies where I got experience on corporate structure and internal process.Now I have my own multimedia production company and business is booming. I started shooting video in 1999 and immediately used that medium to increase communications and grow my customer base. Most of what I do is chroma-key. I present an e-strategy to corporate clients for internal and external use consisting of e-mail marketing, web design and video. Almost every company I deal with needs communication in sales, marketing, manufacturing, human resources, patient education and executive communication. Your book has given me the tools to present the value of video to my potential clients. I don’t think there has ever been a better time to be in this exciting new world of multimedia. The economy being what it is and where this technology can take us is thrilling. Clients need to think differently and educating them is a big part of what I do. Do you have a blog or do speaking engagements? I recently spoke to a group of event videographers who are feeling the effects of the economy, who are not comfortable in the corporate world and I touted your book and was very well received. I think the audio version would be a great fit for this group and others trying to get more corporate work.

Thanks

Bob

[John Morley]

I hope to have chapter five recorded soon.

[John Morley]

I have finished recording chapter 5, Seven Strategies for Improving any Treatment/Video as two Quick Time files and posted them at https://originalvision.com/script_book.htm.

At the top of the page, click the link for Recorded Chapters. I will leave it to you to convert it into another format, if needed, and combine the two parts.

There is currently no charge to download these sample chapters. If you do, please provide some feedback on technical quality, voice quality and whether you would be willing to purchase a recording of the entire book, along with the file format that you prefer, to me at John@OriginalVision.com.

I hope that this is of help to you.