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Tuesday, August 28, 2007
What is a Legal Videographer
A legal videographer is an important legal professional who can specialize in a wide variety of video related legal services. The main services offered by legal videographers include creating Day-in-the-Life videos, forensic animation productions, settlement documentaries and filming court proceedings. Other services offered by legal videographers include legal reporting, video evidence analysis and training new legal videographers.
The first service offered by legal videographers is the production of Day-in-the-Life videos. These videos are developed to be admitted as evidence in a court of law. Their purpose is to demonstrate how an accident or product malfunction has negatively impacted the life of the plaintiff. These video productions utilize many tricks of the trade, like somber music, depressed lighting and dramatic staging of the victim, in order to solicit sympathy for the case’s victim.
The second service offered by legal videographers is the production of forensic animation. These video productions are intended to be admitted as evidence in a court of law. Their purpose is to recreate an event to help clarify to the jury what happened and to clarify who was liable for the accident or for the wrongful death. This service takes time and money. Average forensic animation productions cost over $5,000 to produce and they can take upward of 3 months to complete.
The third service offered by legal videographers is the production of settlement documentaries. Unlike Day-in-the-Life films and forensic animation, settlement documentaries are not intended to be admitted as evidence during a trial. Instead, they are intended to encourage the defendant to settle out-of-court. In the event that an out-of-court settlement cannot be reached, these films can be edited to create very effective Day-in-the-Life films to be admitted as evidence and used to support the plaintiff’s case during their trial.
The fourth service offered by legal videographers is court room video documentation. This is a very basic service. What it entails is setting up a camera in a court room to film the proceedings of a court case in order to preserve it for posterity, public record or to be used by the jury when reviewing the case.
The final service offered by legal videographers is video analysis. There are several different analyses that legal videographers can offer. They can verify that a piece of video evidence has not been tampered with or hoaxed, they can identify anomalies in the video and they can also enhance the video or images to make them easier for the court to interpret.
The first service offered by legal videographers is the production of Day-in-the-Life videos. These videos are developed to be admitted as evidence in a court of law. Their purpose is to demonstrate how an accident or product malfunction has negatively impacted the life of the plaintiff. These video productions utilize many tricks of the trade, like somber music, depressed lighting and dramatic staging of the victim, in order to solicit sympathy for the case’s victim.
The second service offered by legal videographers is the production of forensic animation. These video productions are intended to be admitted as evidence in a court of law. Their purpose is to recreate an event to help clarify to the jury what happened and to clarify who was liable for the accident or for the wrongful death. This service takes time and money. Average forensic animation productions cost over $5,000 to produce and they can take upward of 3 months to complete.
The third service offered by legal videographers is the production of settlement documentaries. Unlike Day-in-the-Life films and forensic animation, settlement documentaries are not intended to be admitted as evidence during a trial. Instead, they are intended to encourage the defendant to settle out-of-court. In the event that an out-of-court settlement cannot be reached, these films can be edited to create very effective Day-in-the-Life films to be admitted as evidence and used to support the plaintiff’s case during their trial.
The fourth service offered by legal videographers is court room video documentation. This is a very basic service. What it entails is setting up a camera in a court room to film the proceedings of a court case in order to preserve it for posterity, public record or to be used by the jury when reviewing the case.
The final service offered by legal videographers is video analysis. There are several different analyses that legal videographers can offer. They can verify that a piece of video evidence has not been tampered with or hoaxed, they can identify anomalies in the video and they can also enhance the video or images to make them easier for the court to interpret.
# posted by gopi @ 9:36 PM 
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