Why Should Businesses Use Corporate Videos For Marketing?

Corporate video production is essentially video commissioned by businesses, companies and organisations for their own sales and marketing purposes.  It includes advertising content designed for all digital channels such as websites, social media, sales meetings, exhibitions and more.  If a picture paints a thousand words, just imagine what corporate video can do. You only need to look on social media to recognise the power of media and its impact on business as we know it. Corporate videos are great for promoting your company and products to a wider audience. They are also an excellent way of letting people know about what you do, what sets you apart, and why they should choose you over the competition. These videos are incredibly popular with companies who want to show their unique selling points to their target audience to bring in more business and make more sales. Marketing and promotional video should engage the viewer and make them central to the story to ensure your message has maximum impact.  These videos should use good emotional storytelling techniques, to help start good conversations and engagement in the brand. Using emotion in videos is essential for success in the digital marketing world. You can use marketing videos to show off your company, tell the story of your product, and inspire people to buy, as well as generating brand awareness. A lot of people think that corporate videos are just for big brands, but that's not true. Most small businesses can benefit from creating a [...]

Why Should Businesses Use Corporate Videos For Marketing?2023-01-26T15:15:45+00:00

When Can Virtual Reality Videos Be Useful For Businesses?

Virtual reality is a new and exciting technology that is being used in many different industries.  VR video production is a type of video content that allows the user to escape into an interactive world. The world can be graphical or a real world environment.  The user can interact with the environment by moving around the image or by moving their position within the image.  Users might also be able to perform tasks within the virtual world where artificial intelligence and gaming technology works alongside the virtual experience. VR video can be used in a multitude of ways. It can be used to create video games, immersive educational experiences, and even virtual tours of real-world locations. One of the most popular uses is for training and development. This use of virtual reality video helps people learn how to perform tasks safely or access an environment safely before doing it in the real world. Another popular use is for marketing, advertising and promotion. Lots of big brands are starting to use VR for marketing purposes, which helps them stand out from their competitors. However, virtual reality videos can also be used to showcase site facilities when it’s harder for visitors to access or to demonstrate new products or prototypes in action, and this is getting more and more popular to do. VR is also used for entertainment purposes in order to create an experience for your customers and clients that they will never forget, helping make your brand memorable and [...]

When Can Virtual Reality Videos Be Useful For Businesses?2022-12-08T12:57:24+00:00

The Ten Best Things To Do In Leeds With Your Teammates

Are you an office that likes to go out and celebrate with fun activities? We’ve got you covered for the best things to do in Leeds with your colleagues and teammates. 1. Escape room - There are loads to choose from! The Shot Blast Media team have completed a few of these, our favourite being ‘Haunted’ at The Great Escape Game Leeds. It was a very spooky experience and not for the faint-hearted, but a very well put together escape room. We escaped with over 13 minutes to spare! 2. Axe throwing - A new activity to enjoy in Leeds! We are now experts after attending Whistle Punks for our Christmas do this year! It’s great fun to do but it can get quite competitive between colleagues! Don’t worry, it’s not as hard as it looks, but it does take some practice!  3. Flight Club - This is a great activity to do in a medium to large group of teammates. Flight Club is darts but with entertaining games and gorgeous cocktails. We recommend playing Demolition and Killer. They even have bottomless pizza and prosecco brunch now too!  4. Roxy’s - There are now three of these to choose from in Leeds city centre, offering a huge range of different activities, perfect for your company night out. At Roxy’s you can do bowling, pool, shuffleboard, ping pong, beer pong, mini golf, curling, and even karaoke! We recommend booking if there’s a large group. 5. Bowling - Lots of places [...]

The Ten Best Things To Do In Leeds With Your Teammates2023-01-18T12:06:52+00:00

Top 10 Christmas Movie Recommendations

Have you got a favourite Christmas movie that you watch every year without fail? Here’s Shot Blast Media’s top ten Christmas favourites: 1. Home Alone - An absolute Christmas classic! Home Alone is a 1990 comedy film directed by Chris Columbus and written and produced by John Hughes. The film stars Macaulay Culkin as Kevin, a boy who defends his suburban home from burglars after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their vacation to Paris. You can spend hours watching all the sequels too! 2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - This is a 2000 Christmas comedy film directed by Ron Howard, based on Dr. Seuss's 1957 children's book of the same name. The film is narrated by Anthony Hopkins and stars Jim Carrey as The Grinch. This is a wholesome film with some great Christmas messages throughout, and one for the whole family. 3. Love Actually - This is a 2003 Christmas-themed romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Richard Curtis. This is Maddy’s favourite Christmas film which she usually watches whilst wrapping up all of her Christmas presents. The film delves into different aspects of love as shown through ten separate stories involving lots of characters, many of whom are interlinked. 4. Elf - This is a 2003 American Christmas comedy film directed by Jon Favreau and written by David Berenbaum. The movie stars Will Ferrell as Elf, a human raised by Santa's elves, who learns about his origins and heads to New York to meet [...]

Top 10 Christmas Movie Recommendations2022-09-29T14:36:00+00:00

Intermediate Level: How To Design Content On Canva

In this Alchemy of Film video tutorial, Maddy from Shot Blast Media explains the basics of Canva and how to use this free platform to design content for your social media platforms. Canva is a great tool to use to create easy, yet engaging, designs for marketing purposes, including logos, videos, social media content, posters, documents, presentations, infographics, and so much more. Maddy discusses how to create videos on Canva, how to make logos, how to add elements into designs, and also how to download your content to use. Back to courses Downloadable Content Members Forum

Intermediate Level: How To Design Content On Canva2024-01-04T08:16:44+00:00
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