BuyerZone users' video production requirements

We ask users of our quote request service to describe their video production purchasing requirements in detail so the vendors we match them to can provide customized information in response. Now we're sharing these buyer requirements with you.

We hope these user comments help you get a sense of what types of video production companies other users are choosing and what considerations are important to the average buyer. Take a look and you'll probably see some responses that are relevant to your business.

BuyerZone user comments: video production purchasing requirements

"This is an instructional video on the fitting of braces on dogs for vetrinarian."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Manufacturing, Benkelman, NE

"Promotional video for use in a Bar displaying specials, events etc."
-- Partner/Principal, Real Estate, Joliet, IL

"Additional royalty free footage of ocean, wind/clouds, fire and earth."
-- Consultant, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Los Angeles, CA

"I want to create an animated music video of one of my songs. I want the video to depict the scenes in each verse as the song is playing. I want the faces of friends of mine pasted onto the characters in the video. is this something that ya'll do ?"
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Monroe, NC

"Basically this is going to be a very short marketing DVD which will be mailed out to our target market. Our requirements:- Short, no more than 4 minutes. We actually want to aim for 3:30 minutes total.- Extremely professional and sleek (this is very important)- Will be put the finished product on a DVD with our own marketing design printed on it, we just need the video production done and in a file format that we can use- We’d like to screen all actors involved in this project- we want really good, natural speaking actors that don’t detract from the video itself (we want our customers to focus on the message)- We have a script We have a clear idea of what we want to convey and how we want to convey it, but are also open to your expertise. This video is quite simple and I wouldn’t imagine the production cost to be that high."
-- Administrative Assistant, Health Care, Mineola, NY

"We will require some shooting in a courtroom setting, and a church setting."
-- Creative Design/Writing/Production, Non-Profit, Florissant, MO

"Video of assembly of an IKEA-like product. Shoot will take about 4 hours. We provide a person to assemble the product. Requires a lot of close-ups to show specific parts. Some title cards needed...such as "Step 2, Assemble screws"."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Other Business Services, Elverson, PA

"Mostly digital, maybe an actor, 30 second spot, very simple format."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Financial Services, Miami, FL

"I just need a ballpark estimate for producing a 30 second ad to be aired on local cable. Our business is a plastic surgery practice so we would like it high quality and in good taste. Although we're looking to bring in patients, the ad should convey a feeling elegance, not a personal injury lawyer type commercial. Our annual marketing budget is several hundred thousand. I'm not sure how much, if any, should allocate to TV ads.Please advise."
-- Consultant, Health Care, Manhattan Beach, CA

"We will be shooting Off Broadway and Regional theatre performances in high definition. We would to use like 3-5 cameras."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Venice, CA

"Marketing DVD for music festival. Want to attract sponsors for next year. Have 6-7 hours worth of footage of bands. Would like to edit together a few of their songs. Also need to shoot and edit a 3-5 minute peice explaining what the event is like. Possible animation. Authored on DVD and treaming on the web. Please include two quotes: one with all the trimmings and one that is more basic."
-- Buyer, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Brooklyn, NY

"Project for non-profit association to grow membership. Looking to subcontract location production in the Washington, DC metro area."
-- Partner/Principal, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Pasadena, MD

"This video is related to a health care product, and we will need a hospital room as a prop."
-- Partner/Principal, Health Care, Bohemia, NY

"We have a high profile sports video online store and we are looking for new videos to offer. We will consider purchasing masters."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Other Business Services, Bridgeport, NY

"This is for a new business start up that is a non profit who is doing a service for widows and orphans by providing free dentistry to those in need. We are also focusing on military personnel whose lives are placed in danger for our nation. This is from a private foundation to help raise support for our cause."
-- Consultant, Non-Profit, Irving, TX

"We are creating a workshop to help caregivers know what questions to ask, to take notes, and to improve the quality of care their loved ones receive. This will be given to folks 55 and over. We have a workshop outline and would like some multimedia clips to help jazz it up."
-- Partner/Principal, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Granite Bay, CA

"I will trying to merge some newsreel footage and photos which will be narrated (live) as the video progresses..."
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Tucker, GA

"Numerous out door locations for a music video shoot. no permits... no audio, we'll just lip sync, minimal lighting, outdoors use natural lighting, studio int. for close ups, and possibly video us playing live to intercut with video."
-- Buyer, Media/Entertainment/Publishing, Torrance, CA

"A simple product demo of me describing and demoing 3 products from our line. I would like two or three different angles to make it interesting."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Health Care, Grover Beach, CA

"I would like to do a real estate informerical. I am scheudled to go on tour starting March 1, 2008 - 20 cities."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Real Estate, Southfield, MI

"We have a new locking system that we need an online video of how it works and something sales reps can either show or leave with prospects/cusotmers regarding this new system."
-- Marketing/Public Relations, Other Business Services, Glendale, CA

"We are a full service media company for those in the entertainment industry that are mainly independent. We need to get the word out about who we are and what we do so that indie artists will choose us to work with when they need global guerilla marketing techniques employed to get their product out to the market."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Consulting, Englewood, NJ

"This is an initial query, I am investigation many possibilities."
-- Consultant, Consulting, Santa Monica, CA

"Initially, produce a scene (approx. 2 minutes or less), two additional different scenes (one minute or less each) and a final scene (approx. 2 minutes or less). THEN, additional supplied videos (one minute or less) will need to be edited in-between. Should be significant volume of these "editing" jobs and will be creating future scenes as well."
-- CEO/President/Owner, Advertising/Marketing/PR, Miami Beach, FL

"I just have some videos that my friends and I went on some trips toggether. I am trying to make a slideshow but a good one. "
-- Buyer, Other Business Services, Boca Raton, FL

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