Introduction to Video Testimonials
Course final project
A course by David R. Romay , Director, producer and writer
About the final project for: Introduction to Video Testimonials
Introduction to the testimonial video
“Congratulations! We have arrived together until the end of the course. I hope it has been useful to you. Please do not forget to share the finished piece in the forum so that we can all get feedback from the different experiences that we are going through. If you liked it, you can do it several times and share as many pieces as you want. The best way to achieve a great piece is to try again and again until it is as we really want. Greetings and see you in the forum. ”
Partial transcription of the video
“Well, we have finished the course; I'm going to give you a brief summary of everything we saw. First I told you about the advantages of working with real people and not actors in a testimony. Then, I told you how to search and find different options to have a "short list" and be able to choose from there to the indicated character. In the "scouting" stage I told you the importance of the first minutes when you know a character, of how you create a link with them and the relevance of this to be able to interview them correctly. Then, I told you how to do that first interview with your charac...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Video Testimonials
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Category
Photography & Video -
Areas
Audiovisual Production, Film, Video & TV, Filmmaking, Script, Storytelling, TV, Video, Video Editing

David R. Romay
A course by David R. Romay
His work as a scriptwriter and director, which he has been developing for more than a decade, has led him to work for commercial brands such as Coca-Cola, HSBC, Procter & Gamble, Motorola, Pfizer, Volkswagen or Televisa, among others. However, it is in the documentary field in which David R. Romay moves with greater ease. In 2005, he produced the documentary Toro Negro , which won numerous awards at international film festivals such as San Sebastian, Toronto, Rotterdam, Havana and Cannes.
In addition, he has directed and written documentaries for Clio TV (the producer of the historian Enrique Krauze) and, in 2010, he wrote and directed several chapters of the documentary series Heroes de Carne y Hueso , premiered on the occasion of the bicentennial of the independence. In 2012 he co-directed and co-wrote the documentary Oro, the day that everything changed , a film that tells the story of the Olympic football team, which won the gold medal in London 2012 and, it has become one of the most watched sports documentaries in Mexico.
In the field of fiction, he highlights A solas , a short film premiered at the 2009 Morelia Festival and winner of the Best Actor Award at Short Shorts México. And the recent premiere, at the Shanghai Film Festival 2018, of his first feature film: Behind the Mountain .
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