Case Study: A Life-Changing Documentary:
Divorce Recovery
One of the images used to
promote the videos
In 1998 counselor Gillian Firth of the Divorce Recovery Centre (link here to - ) approached Twoshotmedia to work on a series of self-help videos aimed at people who were newly divorced or separated. She was counseling people in small groups and individually, but felt that there was a greater need in the community for the kind of help she was providing. She also wanted to show real people in the videos who had been through the process.
Gillian herself hosted the videos, and we were able to provide her with the necessary media training on order to do the best possible job on-camera. We also interviewed some of her clients who had been through a divorce or separation, and been counseled by Gillian.
To reduce Gillian's expenses, we also shot all three videos at once, over a three-week period. Twoshotmedia also entered into a profit-share arrangement with the Divorce Recovery Centre so the up-front expenditure was kept to a minimum.
Gillian has since sold the videos all over the world. She has been able to create an ongoing income for her business through these sales, and seven years later she still commends us for helping her make her vision into a reality. Here are some of her recent comments -
"I have no expertise in video production. Monica's positive, no nonsense approach was perfect. The video script I had prepared was a little sketchy but Monica intelligently and professionally worked out the best ways to direct these videos, using the limited budget to great creative effect."
"During the filming Monica was encouraging and empathic to me and to the separated people whom I interviewed on the videos. This was often a tearful and emotionally charged experience for us, but Monica seemed to know how to get the best from us with her perceptive intuition. Monica so efficiently organised the team she had to assist in the filming, that shooting time was kept to a minimum by her careful and accurate planning."
"The finished videos were expertly edited into a series of three, forty five-minute videos which have proved very popular, interesting and informative both to professional counselors and to everyday Australians struggling to understand the breakdown of their relationship. The videos have also sold successfully in the UK and USA."