Your video does affect our market. When you do a video for a few thousand, it makes it difficult when we quote the same figure with another nought on the end.
Blimey, I knew I was out of my depth when I saw some of the credentials of people on this site but when I read that it took my breath away. I certainly don't want to be labelled as a cheapskate or as an amateur, although I am always keen to learn.
I have read the Gurus posts on this forum and the information he imparts is fantastic, I have also heard from Andy at Turn Media, and likewise some great information there as well.
What my partner and I are trying to do is get into the market of music video, we realise that in every genre of production there are various levels and we believe we have identified our potential "market". We also believe that with our experience in the actual performance/entertainment side of things we have a keen ear and eye for what we believe is ultimately good on DVD for the artist/talent.
We are pitching ourselves at the level of artist that can pay what we think is the going rate for our level of service.Once again then we are in the cloaked underworld of pricing.
We don't want to knowingly undercut any production company, but surely you must treat like for like...most of the people we have worked for to date are on shoestring budgets so thousands with an extra zero on the end is a non starter. If truth be told our typical production comes in around £1.5k (if I shouldn't be mentioning money can a mod remove please) and thats a 60 min concert, shot , edited and put on DVD.
If we should be charging more....please let us know....if you are interested you can check samples of our work looking at our web site. We used the analogy of what its like for us and others in the field doing gigs. Certainly Girls Aloud can probably afford the 10's of thousands it costs to make a DVD, but when we're shooting bands that maybe only clear £500 at their gigs, we're pitching at rthe right level.
If anyone can give me a good indication of how to price our productions, please feel free, we have our own schedule and using that we can price everything from a 5 min shoot up to the 90 min gig.
Hope Im not saying the wrong thing here, but forums are for discussion and debate....and this is still the best forum I've found to date! |