Making a "how to make a good story" educational dvd.

[Igelkott Film]

I'm scripting for a educational dvd on what makes films and shows good and how you know if your close on making a good script and how you can make it "good". I have the base down already.

Some information on me, I'm Swedish and I have loved film/tv all my life.

I have already made a educational DVD on how to tell a story with the camera and how to not screw it up for the cutting room.
(pans and tilts and more advanced stuff) Sold for 588 dollars incl vat.

I can't paint, sculpture and have a hard time making s**t up from nothing.
But I can ad, change, manipulate existing thing into what ever I want to and what ever result is needed. And I'me talking about filming.

I'm a bit of a Quintin, I watch film and a make film and learn that way.

And I se my self as a skilled copy cat. I have for the longest time tried to tap in to and copy the essens of "Good" so that I can copy and then ad the "good" from good movies to my own projects.

My company Igelkott Film makes web commercials, dramatized live events DVDs and "how to dvds" and it works for me.

The DVD does not give boring and not needed crap on were to make act one and two shifts, neither settings and plot points.
Its about ONE thing and if you have that down, you will see it every were and you will know if your materiel works before you shoot it. At that point its not the imagination that is the limit it is how much you can bare.

I believe one can make a good story about ANYTHING if you know how to. And that from crapy B-movies to Johnny Depps Alice is wonderland could have been corrected and made good movies before it saw light of day.


Why I post this is because I wonder if I should make the DVD in English in stead of Swedish for a wider market. I know that almost every school in Sweden will buy a copy but how is it internationally?

 

[Gary Huff]

You only do yourself a disservice when limiting consumable media to any one subset of the worldwide market. Of course, limited resources means that you cannot accommodate every language out there (at least on the outset...if it hits big, then sure), but if not being in Swedish won't be a problem for your home market (that's assuming you can't do both English AND Swedish), then you should.

And this doesn't just apply to language either...once you release your DVD, unless specific DVD-functionality is crucial to your product (title screens, chapter stops, ect.) then you should make your product available in every VOD service you can get into and on every platform. Don't punish potential customers just because they aren't on iTunes, or would rather consume digital media, or whatever.

 

[Igelkott Film]

Sweden consumes so much English that it feels like a third of all commercials aimed at us are in English and we don't mind

The other way is subtitles but i sens Americans hate them I'm I right or wrong?

 

[Gary Huff]

Depends on the audience, but I would imagine that, by and large, for a training DVD, it would be, even with people who don't otherwise normally mind them.