Regarded as one of the greatest and most influential American writers, the wild and unpredictable life of Ernest Hemingway has always been a subject of deep fascination.
Talented and troubled, he bludgeoned his way through life, destroying relationships and himself in search of the next adventure to be thinly disguised as semi-autobiographical prose.
Some of his work is stunning, some of it is dark and little of it is easy, but it is always an excellent read, and the story of his own life is as dramatic as those he imagined.
He was famed for hunting for the ‘true sentence’, a pared down writing style that removed every excess word and punctuation mark until the brevity of the message, crafted with such conviction and care, seemed to convey more than the words themselves. It was what wasn’t said, that gave readers the space to fill in the detail with their own imagination.
Perhaps it is easier to read it than to describe it “all you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know”, he said, creating a true sentence about true sentences.
Having worked through a couple of Hemmingway biographies and many of his short stories I began to wonder how the same principle applies to our video content services.
Although film (posh word for video) shows and speaks more than the written word, like Hemingway’s true sentence philosophy there is a subliminal aspect to the message of a film. Hemingway wanted integrity in his works and so do we. Our output is pure in that we don’t manipulate interviewees; we don’t write scripts that distort truth, and we don’t film things that can’t happen in reality.
Our main work is customer success stories. Short films where consumers talk about how a product or service has made their world better. I love the honesty of those productions. No one is being bribed, or directed, they tell their truth and we tell the truth in our productions both visually and in through the audio.
For us, that really matters.
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About Boreham Media:
We are a creative video agency based in London, operating on a national scale offering a variety of creative production services, from live streaming events to short form re-active content and more formal corporate projects.
Our video production services include customer success stories, where we interview people about their personal experience with a product or service. Unscripted, these deliver a highly authentic form of content, showcasing customer experience in a truthful unedited format that is naturally aligned to a brands’ values.
Our services also include brand activation, corporate video and work as a retained partner, offering our clients the flexibility to innovate regularly by sharing fresh, high quality digital content across multi-channels.
If you would like to know more about how Boreham Media can meet your video production needs, get in touch today. We’d love to book you in for an appointment to chat more about your business and how we can tell your brand story.