Videos bring you to real life, rather than just an online profile. NO slideshows! Videos show emotion, personality, and interaction.Keeping the focus on adoption, talk about the things that are most important to you and why they are important. Three minutes at the max! You don’t want people to lose interest and walk away. But let’s be honest, that’s not real life and sometimes a game on my iphone is what works for us. I would have loved it if Amelia had sat perfectly still on my lap and smiled at the camera while we were filming our video. Don’t be so concerned with making it “pretty” as much as being your true self.We are pretty simple: we waterski, we CrossFit, we play at the park, we love open adoption, and we have dinner as a family every night. When creating an adoption video there are a few key elements that can change your video from a standard run-of-the mill video into a sneak peak of your life that will help those who watch become invested in helping your family. If it is a friend, family member, or distant acquaintance who is watching the video, you want them to feel connected with your family so they will step out of their comfort zone to recommend you to someone who is thinking of placing. If it is an expectant parent watching the video, you want them to feel connected to your family so they will want to place with you. The purpose of an adoption video is to make the person who clicks on the link of your video become emotionally invested in your future adoption. One of the best tools you can have to help the agency match you with an expectant parent and get the word out to your social circles is an adoption video. My advice to all couples who are hoping to adopt is to actively work both avenues. Frequently, a friend or family member will hear of someone they know who is looking to place their expectant child and will refer them to your adoption blog. The job of an agency is to find expectant parents who are looking to place, then provide the expectant parents with several profiles of hopeful adoptive couples to choose from.Īnother way adoptive couples get matched with an expectant parent is by what I like to call “The Referral.” The referral happens when adoptive couples do all that they can to inform their friends, family, neighbors, and even distant acquaintances of their hope to adopt and ask for their help in finding the new addition to their family. The most familiar way is through an agency. There are multiple ways that expectant parents and adoptive parents can be matched.
Whether it’s an expectant parent, friend, family member, or distant acquaintance watching, your video can help them become emotionally invested in your family, which can lead to a successful placement. An adoption video might be the single best tool you can use to make a match with your future child’s birth parent.
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