"How much money can I really make by filming people telling their life's story?"
Let me explain...
Let's look at a typical video biography job:
- set-up my video equipment
- 40 minutes of interviewing
- 10 minutes of capturing photographs
- edit the video
- make DVD copies
Total Time: five hours (I didn't include the time to transfer video from the camcorder to the computer and the computer to burn a DVD because I just start the process and come back when it is done. I also didn't include the time making the DVD copies for the same reason ). The finished video was 24 minutes long.
Total Income: $399 ($299 plus 10 copies at $10 each)
Total expenses: (gas, 10 blank DVDs, and labels, plus averaged advertising and equipment costs for the month) $125
Net hourly income: $54.80/hour for a total of $274 in your pocket!
Not bad, huh?
Here is what Lawrence Devron had to say about using my system...
Brad, You have made the concept so darn simple, that anyone with a desire to document a family history, tell a story, or contribute to their community, can do so. Your ongoing training, by the bootstraps, is the best part, in my mind. We invested in your process because it will actually help market our shop and our talent. The simple fact that you offer an almost instantaneous business presence, is the very reason it has real value. Please continue to share your editorial knowledge with us because you have a way of effectively reducing complex video technologies to manageable steps. Using your system, we get into doing what we got into video to do...and that is to tell stories. Keep the creative juices flowing. Respectfully, Lawrence A. (Larry) Devron Six Oaks Productions, Springfield, Virginia.
I love what I do, but what I do is very localized to my own hometown.
Which is why you are here. I have put together an Online How-To Guide on my website to show you how I make these videos. You can have your Video Biography home business set up in very little time.
Do you need to be a professional videographer? No. If you are, great, you will love to add video biographies to the services you already offer. However, you do need to know how to run your digital video camera and the video editing software on your computer, then I will teach you the rest.
Check out the How-To Guide