Welcome!
If you’re reading this, it’s probably because you’re considering working with boom. Sweet!
Like most things in life, the success of a video depends on being prepared. This page has a quick outline of our process that will help us understand and produce the project in a successful, safe, and fun way. If you have a few minutes, watch these three videos to help you prepare to work with us (or any other producer).
Budget
Before we have a conversation about your project, you need to have a firm budget range prepared. If you don’t have a budget, this video will help you find the right one.
Video: 2 minutes.
The Look and Feel
The same story can be told in an unlimited numbers of ways. Several of those ways might be the right way. We should really be sure before we get started, though.
Video: 3 minutes.
The Cost
So, you’ve got a budget. Do we need the whole thing? Are there different ways we can use it? What’s going to create the most successful project for you?
Video: 5 minutes.
The Meeting
We’re going to have a meeting (more likely a phone call or video chat— it’s a pandemic, after all) to help both of us completely understand and agree on the goals of the project.
Prior to that meeting, it’s essential that you know your budget to help us configure the project properly and prepare things on our end.
During our call, we’ll go through a list of questions that will help us understand the project together and how best to accomplish the goals. Throughout the project, we’ll reference the goals at every step to make sure we’re accurately pursuing them and not getting wrapped up in conventions, distractions, or novelties.
Those questions include:
What is your budget?
What problem or situation is this video going to solve or address? Who is going to be watching it? How should they be different when the video is over?
How will you determine if the video is successful or not?
What could go wrong? What would keep you up at night as we produce this?
What are your deadlines, restrictions, and specifications?
What factors will matter most to you as you decide whether or not to hire us? Quality of work? Turnaround time? Cost?
The Process
We have our meeting (phone call).
Based on the information from the meeting, we’ll give a few options for the project.
You select one of those options or provide some feedback and we’ll find something else that fits.
We send over the final project agreement with all its known details. You love it.
You selfie-sign our agreement. You can prepare for that here.
We begin Pre-Production (writing, storyboarding, scheduling, coordinating, etc.)
We shoot.
We edit, you offer revision feedback. We filter that feedback through the lens of the project goals and make edits.
Repeat revision rounds as necessary.
We deliver final project.
Our Policies
Here are some of our policies (based off of lessons we’ve learned the hard way):
We need to know your budget. Before the meeting or first thing during it. It’ll make everyone happier if we get it out there.
Our crew gets paid on the day of the shoot. So we typically require a percentage of the project payment before our first shoot day.
We don’t accept revision notes via text message. Sorry, Millennials. All feedback must be comments in frame.io.
We consider the confirmed project goals during rounds of revision. Directives that don’t support those goals will be evaluated together. (Like putting a phone number at the end of a video you’re posting to Facebook. We’re gonna talk about that one together.)
We also have worked hard to make our “fine print” as straightforward and as concise as possible. Please familiarize yourself with those terms and conditions here.
QUESTIONS AND COMMUNICATION
If you have any questions about this process, please don’t hesitate to reach out. We do our best to simplify the process of video production to make it accessible and enjoyable. If there’s anything we can do to improve that, please let us know, we’re always looking to learn.
