How to Create an Eye-Catching Video Walkthrough of Your Home
If you really want to stand out and set yourself apart, then you should definitely include a video walkthrough in your property listing. Creating a video walkthrough of your home allows you to show off your home’s best features while also allowing potential buyers the opportunity to get a quick glimpse of your home’s layout. So if you're up for the challenge to do it yourself or hire someone in, here’s a checklist of how to get the best video.
Plan Your Home Video Walkthrough Out
Basic video walkthroughs are usually just taken on a smartphone with the person recording themselves walking through the house. This is a good start, but you can do better. For your video walkthrough to have the greatest effect, you have to start by making a plan.
The importance of planning cannot be over emphasized. Think about how you want the video to flow throughout the house, and make a list of the areas you want to highlight. Consider who your target buyer is, and try to cater the video to that type of buyer if possible.
Filming the Video Walkthrough of Your Home
The quality of your video is also of great importance. You’ll want to make sure that your home video walkthrough appears professional and is in HD quality. This will allow you to truly capture your home’s most essential features.
Don’t worry about needing any fancy equipment, though. Smartphones now have cameras that have advanced quality and greater capabilities than ever before. Even if you don’t have a smartphone, you can always enlist the help of a relative, neighbor, or friend who does. Or if you've hired someone in, make sure they're using their best equipment.
Editing and Publishing Your Home Video Walkthrough
There are tons of free video editing software, and most computers will have one built into the operating system. You don’t have to get too crazy with the editing either, just make sure you have clean cuts and transitions between your shots of different areas.
When it comes to publishing your video, YouTube will probably be the quickest and easiest route to go. They’ve even added a built-in video editor, so you can tackle your editing and publishing all in one go.
Going Above and Beyond
If you’re the kind of person who likes projects like this and want to really get into it and make something great, then we have a few more ideas that will help take your video to the next level.
Use a tripod. You’d be amazed at how big of a difference it can make, and they’re not too expensive. You can even get one for your phone.
Include shots of surrounding areas. Including short clips of the surrounding areas helps paint a picture of what it’d be like to live there. Highlighting nearby parks, your downtown area, the business district, and the like in your video will leave more of an impression than if it were just mentioned in your listing.
If you’re really feeling proactive, take some drone footage. Of course, there are times when this is clearly not the move to make, like if you have a lot of trees that would obstruct the view of your home. If you do decide to do this, you’ll probably be best suited leaving it up to the professionals.
Have you made a video walkthrough of a home before? Tell us about it in the comments! And if you have any specific questions, feel free to leave a comment.
