Thursday, April 7, 2011

Video for REALTORS




Video for REALTORS


• Why use video in real estate
• When to use video in real estate
• How to use video in real estate

Why Use Video in Real Estate?
  • As of March 2011 53% of all Internet activity is video based
  • Google is the top used search engine on the Internet.
  • YOUTUBE IS #2!!!
  • Facebook videos viewership spiked over 2000% in 2010, from 2009
  • Video search queries just surpassed text
  • queries for the first time ever in beginning of 2100
  • Why is this? Its easier to have show and tell, than to read.

When to Use Video in Real Estate?
  • Listing video
  • Personal promotion
  • Video blog
  • Video email
Creating Property Videos
• About home, not you
• Music, not you speaking
• Move camera slowly, no fast pans
• Pan from one corner of room to other
• Back to window for lighting purposes
• Don't try to
do in one take. Can edit different scenes together
• Start fro
m outside home, showing exterior
• Then show entering home
• Then show walking through front foyer into home. Keep camera as
steady as possible
• Then show rooms, using the corner to corner pan technique
• Show views, yard, club houses etc.
• Have a separate video of neighborhood overview