Advertisement
If you have a new account but are having problems posting or verifying your account, please email us on hello@boards.ie for help. Thanks :)
Hello all! Please ensure that you are posting a new thread or question in the appropriate forum. The Feedback forum is overwhelmed with questions that are having to be moved elsewhere. If you need help to verify your account contact hello@boards.ie
Hi there,
There is an issue with role permissions that is being worked on at the moment.
If you are having trouble with access or permissions on regional forums please post here to get access: https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058365403/you-do-not-have-permission-for-that#latest

TV Ad creator

  • 14-12-2010 1:26pm
    #1
    gavney1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 537 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys

    Our company is going to be advertising on TV for the first time soon. However, we can't afford to pay a production company. The TV channel did a sample but it wasn't great. I imagine it would just be as easy to learn to use software myself rather than going back and forth asking someone else to make changes.

    Can anyone recommend good software for creating an Ad for TV? Or MS powerpoint just as good as anything? Or can you do this on Windows media player or something like that?

    It doesn't need to be anything particularly complicated, in fact I'd prefer if it was as straightforward as possible. Just so long as it looks professional

    PS I wanted to post this on Marketing forum, but apparently it's discontinued

    thanks
    John


Comments

  • #2
    Somnia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭Somnia


    i agree - production companies can be way too expensive for ads. I'm a fan of the freelancer route to minimize costs - an editor called David Blake did some great work for me some time ago and not expensive
    http://www.mandy.com/home.cfm?c=bla423


  • #3
    gavney1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 537 ✭✭✭gavney1


    thanks somnia

    can you by any chance link a sample of what he did for you, and how much?


  • #4
    stcstc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭stcstc


    depends what kind of thing you want

    I have worked in post / production for a good while. havent for a little now. but its relatively easy to produce something graphical etc

    it kind of depends on ideas and what kind of thing you would like as to what it might cost


  • #5
    antoinolachtnai
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,815 ✭✭✭antoinolachtnai


    I really would bring someone in on this. There is a lot of small, finicky technical things you need to know in order to make an ad that is suitable for broadcast. But remember, TV is all about movement and personality and it can be hard to do these on the cheap. There comes a price level under which it might not be worth advertising on TV. That said, there are clever things that can be done.


  • #6
    stcstc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,262 ✭✭✭stcstc


    i agree

    there are standards about text sizes etc, different broadcasters have dirrent specs etc

    you can create nice movement etc without having to shoot video, by using stills etc. but there is a bit of work involved and planning more than anything to give something effective


  • Advertisement
  • #7
    Somnia
    Closed Accounts Posts: 15 ✭Somnia


    http://davidblake.eu/?p=448


  • #8
    bigneacy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,222 ✭✭✭bigneacy


    Somnia wrote: »
    http://davidblake.eu/?p=448

    he seems like the business :)


Advertisement