![]() ![]() ![]() I still find myself going up against that kind of competition, but nowhere near as much. I charged less because i turned up with a couple of camera bags and not a van full of impressive looking 'stuff'. I purposely went for a visual style that set me apart from the old-skool guys. I didn't pretend to have their experience, but i did have the tools to get the look people wanted at the time - shallow DOF and a lot of experience of editing using the latest tools. They often charged in the region of £700 - £900 per day of shooting!! I came along with my old DVX100 and later a Canon DSLR and charged half that. Usually an ex-BBC or ITV cameraman with a shoulder mount P2 or even Sony optical disc camera and a van full of lights, dolly and track and other grip gear. A lot of the work i get used to be done by 'camera man with a van' type companies. If enough people start offering work for less than half of what i charge, they will kill the industry. I charge what i know is fair and what is the minimum i can work for and still cover my overheads and make a little bit of profit. I often get asked to work for much less than i can afford to.and sometimes, if there are valid reasons i will work cheaper than advertised - but it's a dangerous game. ![]() Would you hire this lot to do your PR? either. I love that the audio loop at the end for the credits doesn't loop properly. This is truly awful.more in concept than execution. but i did find a worse company promo video online. The website appears to be gone now, so i can't show you. They've had it proved that someone will always do it for less. but he'll never squeeze much more than what they paid for the first job out of them. He priced me out of the job by going in at five times less than i was charging. The trouble comes when this kid needs to make a proper living out of his work. But hey, the client was happy and maybe most of the punters looking on the website won't know the difference. He'd clearly gone mad with all the presets in iMovie and produced a very home-movie looking result. it was clearly shot on a DSLR but with no lighting, no moving shots. So that, was that.Ī few months later i checked the website of the company and the first video was up there. I did mention that putting a poor quality result online could be damaging to them, but i also said they might get lucky and this kid might do a good job. They asked if i could match the offer and i explained that i couldn't as my overheads and principals wouldn't allow it. I asked what his experience was and what he would be shooting on, but they didn't know. I was then phoned a few days after getting the the job to be told by the boss that a friend of his had a son who had offered to do the job for £100 per video. ![]()
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