{"id":9,"date":"2013-02-12T07:35:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-12T07:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/l-gproductions.com\/?page_id=9"},"modified":"2013-02-15T02:21:38","modified_gmt":"2013-02-15T02:21:38","slug":"video-production","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/l-gproductions.com\/?page_id=9","title":{"rendered":"Video Production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These days any author serious about promoting and selling his or her book will have to consider producing a video for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This can be anywhere from a 30-second, very creative ad that can go viral&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(Picture this: baby standing in a crib looking directly at the camera, screaming. Shot remains perfectly still for 10 seconds while baby screams. Then we see a mother&#8217;s hands place headphones on the baby, and within a few seconds the baby quiets down and smiles into the camera. Voice-over says: &#8220;Try it for yourself. Listen to the audiobook of [your title].&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; to a 3-5 minute interview with the author (if the author comes across well on camera)&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; to a 3-5 minute mix of 30-second segments read from the book punctuated by 30-second reader testimonials.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Bio for Stephen Davis\" href=\"https:\/\/l-gproductions.com\/?page_id=50\">Stephen Davis<\/a> took this to the extreme by making (writing, producing, narrating) a series of 5 videos based on his book <em>Butterflies Are Free to Fly: A New and Radical Approach to Spiritual Evolution, <\/em>and a 5-minute video invitation to the workshops for YouTube. You can watch the YouTube invitation <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=E0iYDbxn-Go\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a> and the 5-part workshop series <a href=\"http:\/\/www.holographicuniverseworkshops.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of video production like this will vary widely, from $100 a finished minute for a simple video voice-over narration to as much as $10,000 a finished minute for a turnkey package of writing, producing, narrating, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These days any author serious about promoting and selling his or her book will have to consider producing a video for YouTube and\/or Vimeo. This can be anywhere from a 30-second, very creative ad that can go viral&#8230; (Picture this: baby standing in a crib looking directly at the camera, screaming. Shot remains perfectly still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-9","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-gproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-gproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-gproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/l-gproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/l-gproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/l-gproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/l-gproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/l-gproductions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}