The Settlement Booklet, sometimes called a Demand Video, is more accurately known as a Mediation Documentary as it focuses on liability and damage coverage and is presented during a mediation proceeding or arbitration hearing. The finished piece is 10 to 30 minutes long, never more, and is a concise summary of the case. This video is produced to make the opposing attorney or insurance company fully acknowledge the pain and suffering of a catastrophic injury or death resulting from negligence, malpractice, or product liability.
The mediation documentary never sees the inside of a courtroom: however, because of its vivid and highly graphic nature, it is an incredibly valuable and often indispensable part of a mediation process that leads to the favorable resolution of a case. . Mediation documentaries are promotional videos and everything possible is done to advance the liability and damages case. Video content is produced for maximum emotional impact. Every method that can be employed to heighten the dramatic tension and deliver the emotional punch is employed. Dramatic lighting, fancy editing, special effects, dramatic background music, dramatic voice-overs, professional actors, title generation, fancy camerawork, emotional shots, graphic shots, chroma keying, stock footage, computer-generated animation, treatments image, and the list goes on. on – they are all displayed.
Mediation documentaries are professionally produced full-length videos with the plaintiff’s attorney in the director’s seat. This is very slick and precise video documentation, and the effort to produce it on a defined timeline is highly sophisticated. As with any professional production, the filming schedule is carefully planned, often cut into Day-Out-of-Days, and the production is meticulously written for optimum efficiency, economy, and effectiveness.
A legal videographer can go into fact finding mode, working in consultation with the attorney and paralegals to piece together the elements of the case and focus coverage holistically. A certified legal video production team can coordinate interview scheduling, organize all exhibits, and the material that will drive the presentation.
A legal video production company can write and storyboard the production for attorney approval, provide on-location coverage, move into post-production with the same attention to detail, provide professional editing, graphics enhancement professional, professional color correction, dramatic scoring. critically in sync with the cuts, CGI animation, coding and authoring. The finished settlement booklet is a highly polished lawsuit video and a powerful summary of the case.