Authentic Emotions
How much is an authentic smile worth? Researchers call it a Duchenne Smile, and our methods of capture show that when working with a person who is not a professional model or actor, an authentic smile has a profound impact on the believability of your product, and ultimately establishes a lasting trust for your brand.
Most video production companies spend your money on writing the perfect script, we spend your money on eliciting and capturing authentic smiles that sell, the script being the authentic words often from your customer’s mouths. The foundation of cour content construction strategy is that authentic emotions are your most valuable asset, so we focus our shoots and train our crew members on that. It’s more important than setting up big lights or softboxes. It’s more important than the fancy camera or specialized lens. We have those things too, and we use them when appropriate, but only if they don’t impede our primary mission: making our subjects feel safe enough to be themselves. It’s the hidden side of photography that no one really talks about, let alone specifically trains their crew on. We know the connections between photographer and subject is the foundation for authentic content. Toni Morrison famously taught us “ At the end of the day people won’t remember what you said or did, the will remember how you made them feel.”
When you book an Alteza Films shoot, we make sure you feel safe, so that you can feel authentic. It doesn’t matter if you’re a pre-school on the first day of school, the CEO of a billion dollar empire, a janitor doing your noble work day in and day out or a Senator in a critical election. When you feel safe to be yourself in front of the camera your viewers my forget the instagram caption, they won’t remember who shot the photograph or what lens was used, but they’ll remember how that genuine expression of joy mad them feel. It’s science. And for all you research nerds out there it’s called the emotional contagion theory and it onvolves the contraction of both zygomatic major and orbicularis oculi muscles. These facial muscles are critical in identifying a genuine smile. Hiring a content capture team that understands that and works for that is one of the biggest returns on your investment. How much is an authentic smile worth? Everything.