Digital Business Cards offers the following benefits:
- Convenient size for handing out.
- Memorable impact.
- Superior customer communications.
- Digital Business Cards can hold up to 80mb of data which means you have room for video and animation and voiceover as well as graphics, text and music.
- Yet this neat compact plastic card can include a complete interactive business, sales or corporate presentation.
- Decent high-quality paper brochures cost a lot, and yet can have only a fraction of the impact that an interactive multimedia can bring. Paper can't talk, it can't sing and it can't dance.
- If you need to project a bang-up-to-date high tech image then a digital business card will deliver this for you, without question.
Estimating the cost of your multimedia presentation
The costs for your multimedia presentation are likely to be the same, whether it's training, corporate profile or sales promotion. To estimate the cost, you first need to estimate its size. The key to this is knowing how many screens your presentation will need, how much programming is involved, and what additional features you'll need.
STEP ONE - Estimating Runtime
- How long do you think your presentation needs to run for? 5 minutes, 10 minutes, 30 minutes, an hour? Allow 100 words for every runtime minute.
- A five minute presentation will be 500 words, while a 30 minute presentation will be 3,000 words, and so on.
STEP TWO - Estimating the number of Screens
You know roughly how many words your presentation needs. Now you're ready to estimate how many multimedia screens your presentation will need.
- A typical 800x600 sized multimedia screen holds 50-80 words, sometimes less. If you pack in more words than this, you'll leave very little room for pictures, and it will have an off-putting crowded look.
- So if from Step one your script is 500 words long, then divide by somewhere between 50 to 80 and you'll see that you need approximately 7-10 screens.
- Using the same calculation, a 3,000 word script will need 40-60 screens.
STEP THREE - Estimating what else will you need?
Once you know the approximate no of screens you need, consider whether you need any animated sections, quizzes or tests or assessments, or video clips - These all require additional programming. You'll also need a Main Menu, and design work.
Consider also how many sections your script will have. Each one of these will require a sub-menu. If you want your screens to talk, as apart from simply present written text, then you'll need Voiceover too. Knowing this information will allow you to get a realistic price estimate from a multimedia producer.
STEP FOUR - Summarising your Estimate
If you've followed the above, you should be able to invite a multimedia producer to quote.
For example:
I require a price for a multimedia sales presentation, with detailed costs, for:
- An estimated runtime of 30 mins.
- Approximately 3,000 words.
- Between 40-60 screen pages, all with Voiceover.
- 1 short quiz and one 20 question assessment.
- Including one of our existing videos (6 mins long).
- Main menu.
- 6 Sub Menus.
- Design and artwork.
- All produced to our corporate standard.
This approach will allow you to obtain reasonably realistic cost quotations by email and get a feel for the range of what's available. Knowing the price first obviously helps, before you commit yourself to inviting a shortlist of producers to your office.
If you'd like to request Artletic Brand Engineering to quote you on your multimedia needs, please write to us with your estimate by filling in the form at the bottom of this page, or
contact us via telephone or e-mail. Artletic Brand Engineering can help you make your next production for a lot less than you might think, fill in the form below and let's see what we can do.
