Questions to Ask Before Hiring a Boston Interview Video Production Company

Interview videos are an important part of producing marketing content for your Boston area business. Whether you’re interested in creating customer interviews, employee interviews for testimonial videos, or case study interview videos that show off the essence of your brand’s ability to provide value and offer solutions that matter, creating this type of content can be incredibly valuable for your business. But as important as producing an interview video for your Boston area business is, hiring a Boston interview video production company is definitely not something that you should rush into. 

Before you even consider hiring a Boston interview video production company to assist you with the planning, production or post-production editing of a case study interview, corporate interview, or any form of interviews used for testimonial videos, it’s important to properly screen the professionals that you’re considering for the job. Just as you would screen a new employee, you need to screen third party providers in a very similar manner.

To help you decide on the best Boston interview video production company to work with on your interview videos, we’ve put together a list of important questions that you should be asking during the screening process. At Beverly Boy Productions, we’ve been asked these questions, and many others, on a regular basis. Each time a new prospective customer reaches out to use about a project they’re considering, we almost certainly get asked a series of questions that they’re using to screen us – and we wouldn’t have it any other way! 

If you’ve got questions about our Boston interview video production company, give us a call and feel free to ask us anything you’d like about your project or our team! To help you come up with some screening questions to start the process out on the right foot, consider this list of questions that every business owner should first ask of their production company before hiring.

1. What is your Experience with Interview Videos? 

If there is a specific type of interview video that you’re interested in producing, such as a case study or a customer testimonial, you’ll want to ask about those specifically. If you’re just seeking a Boston interview production company that has general experience in filming 2 camera, 3 camera, or multi-person interviews, you can be more vague. Either way, you want to know what their past experience is with filming interview videos and you’re looking for someone that will say they’ve worked on similar projects.

2. Do you have Customer Reviews or Past Customer Referrals?

This is something you might be able to find with a quick online search but the point here is to find out if the Boston interview video production company that you’re questioning has experience with local customers. It’s equally important to find out how the customers that they’ve worked with feel about the projects that the professional film crew has provided. Were the customers happy? Were they frustrated? How was their customer service? Were they satisfied with the final project?

3. How Do you Handle the Scope of Work for Each Project?

This question is important to ask any Boston interview video production company ahead of time because you want to be sure that you and the production crew will be on the same page contractually. You don’t want to find yourself in a position in which there are contractual differences or discrepancies between what you expect and what the production crew expects so it’s best to get these details hammered out early.

4. What is the Estimated Cost Per Finished Minute for a Project Like Mine?

Be prepared for the interview production crew to have very specific questions for you before they are willing to provide you with an estimated cost per finished minute of video. If they don’t have questions, you should be a little worried unless they provide you with a very vague cost per minute such as, “costs can range between about $500 and $10,000 per finished minute for interview videos, without more information about your project details we can’t provide a very specific idea of cost.” Recognize that this is a common answer.

5. Are you Confident that You Can Complete my Interview Video within the Timeline that I have Proposed?

If you’ve got a time limit upon which you need your project completed within, be sure to address it with the Boston interview video production company that you are thinking about working with, upfront. You don’t want to get excited about your project and your partnership, only to find out too far in, that the production company cannot fulfill your project within the pre-defined project timeline that you have set. Instead, make sure that you ask this question before hiring a Boston interview video production company so that you can rest assured that you’re all on the same page.

Got more questions about hiring a Boston interview video production company to work with on your project? Give Beverly Boy Productions a call!