How to Start a Video Project

Create a narrative!

By narrative, I mean just a basic outline of how you imagine the video or film going. This is not a script, but a guide.

In your outline, include the character, the action, location and a bonus would be the setting.

Here’s an example: The hero is driving down a rocky road, it's early so it’s still dark. It’s cold.

Or the character is sitting at a coffee shop. This helps you to visually conceptualise how the film is going to look and creating a narrative helps to develop your story.

This is a perfect foundation to build upon. Often we can be in the middle of pre-production feeling creatively stuck, but then we just revert back to the original narrative which guides us to get our inspiration back and helps us to get back on track.