How To Make Good Video In Politics

January 11, 2010 by Doug Mitchell
Filed under: Campaign Technology, Red Alert Dossier

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clapperboard digital Here’s a very comprehensive post by the good folks at ReelSEO, called “5 Tips for Successful & Professional Online Video Projects”. In our work with clients, we typically do all for the client except for #2 (practice does make perfect and too many of us don’t appreciate the effect of a camera and lighting on our brain waves and memory). Heed these tips if you’re creating your own video for your campaign (you should be!).

You don’t need to become a master editor and buy thousands of bucks worth of equipment. But you do need to put your best effort forward to not look like “an un-made bed” on camera.

Get filming. If you need help, membership is still open…and remember “When in doubt…use duct tape.”