The Settlement Booklet, sometimes called a Claim Video, is more accurately known as a Mediation Documentation, as it focuses on liability and damages coverage and is presented during a mediation proceeding or arbitration hearing. The finished piece is 10-30 minutes long, never more, and is a concise summary of the case. This video is produced to get the opposing attorney or insurance company to 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, by its vivid and highly graphic nature, it is an incredibly valuable and often indispensable part of a mediation process leading to the favorable resolution of a case. . Mediation documentaries are promotional videos and every effort is made to advance the liability and damages case. Video content is produced for maximum emotional impact. Every method that can be used to heighten the dramatic tension and deliver the emotional punch is employed. Dramatic lighting, fancy editing, special effects, dramatic background music, dramatic voiceovers, professional actors, titling, fancy camera work, emotional shots, graphic shots, chroma keying, stock footage, CG animation, treatments picture, 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 clever 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 dropped on Day-Out-of-Days, and the production is meticulously written for optimum efficiency, economy, and effectiveness.
A legal videographer may go into fact-finding mode, working in consultation with the attorney and paralegals to gather the elements of the case and focus coverage holistically. A certified legal video production team can coordinate the scheduling of interviews, 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 timed with cuts, computer generated animation, coding and authoring. The finished settlement booklet is a highly polished lawsuit video and a powerful summary of the case.