Digital Video FAQ

Viral Video Production, Distribution, and Marketing can be done on a ridiculously low budget! If you accidentally get on top of digg, Youtube, Netscape or the like, you will get buried in hits! Our video production partner, Moviepals Entertainment, utilizes collaborative film-making to create HD and web ready versions of custom videos for you on a tiny budget. We have collaborated on very low budget projects that have been seen millions of times! We can then distribute them online, on your website, on video sharing sites, on Youtube, Google Video, local TV: wherever your target customers can be found.

■You get a Professional HD Video of either an event or a spokesperson
■Pitch visitors instantly in person at your website
Good for:
Spicing up a text only website by adding professional video to your online look

Details and Specifications

■Up to 2 hours Pre-production
■Up to 2 hours Shooting Time (in our LA Studio)
■Up to 2 hours Post-production
■Actors Provided – You or one our Staff Actors
■Scene Locations Provided – Office Location, Wall Backdrop
$349 – one time fee payable in advance

■Professionally Shot HD Video of an event, spokesperson, interview, or created from scratch
■Advanced Branding Options and Improved Visuals
■More Studio time
■Distributed Online to Multiple Video Sharing Sites
Good for:
Making a great first impression to your website visitors. Spicing up a text only website by adding professional video to your online look.

Details and Specifications

■Up to 5 hours Pre-production time
■Up to 5 hours Shooting Time (In our LA studio or on location within 50 miles)
■Up to 5 hours Post-production
■Actors Provided – You or up to 2 of our Staff Actors
■Scenes Locations Provided – Green Screen, Office Location, or Wall Backdrop or location that you provide.
$889 – Payable ½ in advance, ½ upon completion and delivery

■A creative video with actors, sets and a theme:
■Professionally Shot HD Video of a creative commercial or viral video, interview, or mini movie
■Even More Branding Options and Improved Visuals
■More Actors, More Locations, More Studio time
■Our creative staff will help improve your ideas by assisting int he creative process
■Distributed Online to Video Sharing Sites
■Put your video in our creative portfolio exposing it to additional thousands of viewers.
Good for:
Creating a creative video designed to grow virally online and send your website permanent traffic. Impress your website audience with your creativity and generate ‘wow’ factor Enhance your brand image and social media marketing campaign

Details and Specifications

■Up to 10 hours pre-production
■Up to 10 hours Shooting Time (In our LA studio or on location within 50 miles)
■Up to 10 hours post-production ( video editing, graphics)
■Actors Provided – You or up to 2 of our Staff Actors and 1 casted actor(ess)
■Scene Locations Provided – Green Screen, Office Location, Wall Backdrop, Ocean Condo, Library, Conference Room, Pool, or location you provide..
$1749 – Payable ½ in advance, ½ upon completion and delivery

■Professionally Shot HD Video of a series (at least 3 separate episodes) of a creative commercial or viral video, interview, or mini movie
■Even More Branding Options and Improved Visuals
■More Actors, More Locations, More Studio time
■Distributed Online to Video Sharing Sites
■Our creative staff will help hone your creativity with an idea / brainstorming session.
■Distributed Online to Video Sharing Sites
■Put your video in our creative portfolio exposing it to additional thousands of viewers.
■User generated or collaborative call to action – can use members of our collaborative filmmaking team.
Good for:
Building an audience and subscriber base around your brand and marketing message. Attracting ongoing permanent traffic to your website. Launching a new idea / product / or service. Television Commercial Advertising Spots. Community Building projects, where your fans and audience can contribute to your marketing / advertising (user generated content collection).

Details and Specifications

■Up to 25 hours post-production
■Up to 25 hours Shooting Time (in our Studio or on location)
■Up to 25 hours pre-production
■Actors Provided – You or up to 2 of our Staff Actors and 2 cast actors or actresses
■Scene Locations Provided – Green Screen, Office Location, Wall Backdrop, Ocean Condo, Library, Conference Room, Pool, or location you provide.
■Choice of 2 collaborative talent sources from our screenwriting meet-up, actors, audio and post productions (basically we’ll use more team members to improve the quality of the results, so for example we could bring on an outside screenwriter to give their creative input.)
$3920 – – Payable ½ in advance, ½ upon completion and delivery

MoviePals video production services. There are more people who watch videos online than there are people who search Google, and all of the other search engines combined! According to the Ad Age Web Video Report in 2008, 12 billion videos are watched per month, while only 10.5 billion searches are conducted! Video enables your visitors to get your message quickly and powerfully without making them read text or scroll. People are inspired by what they experience; see, hear, read, and feel. People like and are affected by video: with video you can engage more of your audience’s senses. They will have the opportunity to hear, see, and feel your message. A video never has a bad day, never gets one day older, and can pitch your prospects while you sleep at night Want more web traffic? By creating a video and making it available online, you can share your message with a broader audience. Your video will show up in search results with a thumbnail image, increasing click-through rates. You can get your message to new potential customers – Our viral videos are designed to spread and reach vast audiences by entertaining, inspiring or awing your audience. Design your video to inspire the customers you want! We can even even create a whole movie or series to target a specific demographic audience, with content that may or may not have anything to do with product or service to be sold, as long as it reaches the intended audience. Don’t let your website get left behind! Put a video on your site today and announce it to the world! Bring traffic to your site and lay the foundation for ongoing web traffic for months and even years to come. Video is like blogging was 5 years ago: soon there will be even more video all over the web, and websites without video will look as old and boring as WEB 1.0 websites look to all of us now. MoviePals Marketing has created and distributed online videos that have received millions of views and have received international attention from both the mainstream and independent media, and done so on tiny budgets, never before possible. Our collaborative revenue sharing agreement lets the artists concentrate on what they are good at, and share in the revenues resulting from successful campaigns. Get a custom viral video for your website or TV campaign for a one-time low fee. What can my video be about? Anything you want. We can also help you come up with an original video concept: just ask! Why should I choose MoviePals to create my web video? Think maximum creativity, with minimal cost: MoviePals Open Cinema doesn’t just make advertisements; we create and distribute original videos including full length films by using the power of mass collaboration. We are not middle men. MoviePals has screenwriters, actors, and artists from all over the world working together with our full time staff ready to make your dream a reality for a fraction of the cost you would have guessed. With MoviePals, most of your money goes directly to the artists involved. We have a studio in LA and pro HD equipment, keep our expenses at an absolute minimum, shoot with small crews, and use a fast paced results oriented filmmaking style that enables us to produce innovative exciting videos that have received international press and millions of views on a low budget quickly. What specific video sharing sites do you distribute to? This list changes from time to time to stay current, but we distribute to at least: YouTube, DailyMotion, Yahoo, Metacafe, Revver, Blip.tv, Veoh, Viddler, Break, and Stupid Videos We have large, powerful web properties that enable us to gain instant placement and traffic: and we have a base of readers and subscribers to supply instant feedback. What can I use my video for? Anything you want including: websites presentations, YouTube viral advertising, television commercials, launch a new product or service, drive more traffic to your website, entertain your customers and reduce bounce rate, the list goes on… How do MoviePals videos compare to videos from Videographers? Videographers come in all shapes and sizes. From our market research they generally charge by the hour and usually cost more than MoviePals. Videographers may have limited creative capabilities and many are more like event camera operators (doing weddings, live events, etc). They may not be able to effectively cast actors, write scripts, advise on the creative direction of the project or do graphic design. MoviePals is able to do all this and still be one of the least expensive video production services on the market. We achieve this by cutting out the distribution ‘middle men’ and working directly with creators, keeping our expenses down, and using a fast paced results oriented filmmaking style that enables us to produce innovative exciting videos that have received international press and millions of views on a low budget. How do MoviePals videos compare to videos from top Ad Agencies ? At the top end you have creative think tanks that design, brand and launch large advertising campaigns that include viral videos. To be completely honest a lot of these videos are totally awesome, but are so over priced they are not a good value for many customers. Top ad agencies use a large staff, expensive buildings, and a large team to design a campaign or creative idea. All of the actual work involved in the video production is hired out and is usually filmed with a Hollywood Model style of filmmaking and involves hiring a large staff of people at full guild prices (Director, Assistant Direct 1, Costume 1, Makeup 2). You can expect to pay $30,000 or more for a single video and even so there is no guarantee it will work. Due to their large overhead, traditional hiring and filmmaking model, everything a top ad agency does for you, including anything they do extra including social media marketing or online distribution costs. MoviePals could literally create a feature length movie or an entire year of episodes on what a single video from a top Ad Agency may cost. If you are already using a high priced Ad Agency and you’re happy with them, why not give us a small portion of the budget you’re paying them and get some new creative ideas to work with! How do MoviePals videos compare to videos from low and medium priced Ad Agencies? Low priced at agencies are more reasonable and may come closer to our prices, but their quality is all over the map. We’ve seen lots of example of outdated ugly websites, old stock video and graphics with higher price tags. With MoviePals you’re actually getting a cutting edge video for the price of a mediocre one. MoviePals can afford to produce high quality videos on a null budget by keeping our expenses low and using an innovating results oriented filmmaking style that involves shooting with small crews and working directly with the talent (no middlemen). We do the work ourselves, and we are very good at it. Try us out you won’t be disappointed. How do MoviePals videos compare to videos from local television stations: Some of the worst advertising videos we’ve ever seen were produced by local television stations. I’m sure you’ve all seen car dealership ads with a guy in a cowboy hat screaming at the camera and cheesy 80s graphics layovers, or worse restaurant ads with maladjusted lighting and non matching background music. Television stations typically shoot on location in this price range and send out a single camera operator. MoviePals gives you a whole lot more. How do MoviePals videos compare to videos from independent filmmakers? Usually there is a big disconnect between the artistic world of independent filmmakers and the commercial world of advertising. Most independent filmmakers are involved in their own creative endeavors and do not cross into the commercial advertising world. On the flip side of that, many of the video and advertising execs do not cross in the creative artistic filmmaking world. MoviePals creates and distributes its own original creative films and series. We love what we do and have a passion for storytelling from both the artistic and commercial side of it. With MoviePals you actually get an independent filmmaker and creative team of passionate artists for the price of a videographer. Why should I trust you with my brand? You’ll have approval over the final script and product. At these prices you can’t really go wrong. Besides it’s for a viral video for the internet. You can have lots of these and try different things to see which one resonates best with your target audience. Example Portfolio Pieces (these are not packages, they are provided to give more examples of our work for creative purposes and to illustrate what we’re capable of):

■Sizzle Reel – Combination of the projects we’ve done and an intro to our packages
■Jathia’s Wager – Original Open Source Sci-Fi Short Movie
■Your Computer is Killing You – Ongoing series on the side effects of our techy lifestyles
This is the year of social media – I can make my own video (s), find my own talent… You can, but teams create quality content. You could build your own team, but at this price point unless you’re already a talented filmmaker, you’ll probably spend more time and money to produce a sub standard product. We LOVE working with creative people. Let us do the work for you. What equipment and software do you use? It depends on the job and we can use more or less equipment depending on your needs. Included in our package prices are Sony HDV Prosumer video Cameras, Pro Wireless and Boom Microphones, Filters, Softboxes, Green Screen. Software programs we use include: Adobe Photoshop, Premiere Pro, and After Effects. What stock videos do you have available? We have some stock video and photography archives which can be used with your packages without additional fees. When something very specific is required we can work with you to locate the perfect stock video on one of the large digital archives online including istockphoto and gettyimages. What is the buying process?

■Step 1. Send an inquiry to info@socialmediasystems.com
■Step 2. We will send a link to an online form you can fill out in a few minutes.
■Step 3. We’ll confirm your purchase, answer any questions, setup a time frame for completion and send you an invoice and contract.

Custom Branded Video Production for Businesses properly distributed and optimized can be a very effective way of building website traffic from video distribution and syndication sites like Youtube, and it will increase lead capture/sales for any website or business. Israel Rothman
Cell: 805-827-2450 Call me anytime! info@socialmediasystems.com

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