How to Present Your Post-Production Work to Clients

Series Summary

The development of film came alongside the rise of America as a world empire. The technology developed in the late 19th to early 20th century and quickly became a staple of modern culture and mass consumption. Many trace the beginning of film to a moment also considered the advent of the comic strip as we know it: Eadweard Muybridge's famous pictures of a horse's stride, which proved that in fact there is a moment when all four hooves are off the ground. Film making is the process by which a film is made. The different stages of filmmaking include development, pre-production, production, post-production and distribution.

In this free video series, our expert Travis Johns will teach you all you need to know about delivering a post-production video project. He will teach you how to present previous work to clients, how to prepare physical deliverables, how to upload and ftp your work, and how to deliver post-production items quickly and safely. Travis will also show you how to do rush delivery, how to handle & invoice post-production releases & work, and how to archive & preserve disk space for you files. He will even teach you how to maintain clients, handle feedback, handle last-minute requests & late payments, and how to determine ownership.

Video Transcript

"TRAVIS JOHNS: Hi. I'm Travis Johns with Expert Village, and I'm going to be talking to you about presenting samples of your final projects to clients. Clients are going to ask for certain things at the end of a project and before you give them the absolute final file in whatever format they're going to be expecting it, you want to make sure that you give them low-resolution versions for them to approve. Obviously, you don't want to give them something to spend a lot of time compressing it, exporting it, uploading it, et cetera and then have them look at it and need a few changes. You got to make sure you give them a quick and dirty copy. It also helps to put time code on it so if they have any changes, they can reference the time code when they give you said changes and it'll be a quick and easy thing to go back and then fix. It doesn't hurt to have a watermark with your company's name or your own name with other details such as the project, the date, the length so everything stays organized. Providing the client with samples, low-resolution versions of a final project is a great way to protect yourself in a few different ways. This means that they are getting what they need so that they can finally approve it in writing so that when we get to the end of the job, everybody is happy and everybody has agreed to what the final changes are. Once you get all of that, you can give them a full-res version but before that time, you want to make sure you just give them a rough so that you don't go through any extra time and effort in giving them something at full resolution making sure all the details are finished before you actually need to."