music video directors if you wondering what you should charge to shoot music
videos stay tuned for this video I get asked a lot what should you charge to
shoot a music video and to give you like a little help what I did for a long time
was you always gotta have a price range you can't just have a set price because
some songs only a minute long some songs are five minutes long simple videos
complex videos so just a tool that I've used to help price the videos for a long
time I just did a hundred dollars per minute so if the song is two minutes
long a video will be about 200 the song is four minutes on be about 400 and then
from there you you just have some breathing room as far as if it's a
really simple video and you think it won't require a lot of your time I'm
down on pricing if it's a more complex video or someone wants multiple days the
price would go up a little bit but it's kind of like a template that I use for a
long time to come up with pricing for videos what I usually do is I kind of
vibe with artists on what they're looking for and once they said what
they're looking for then I know like okay yeah that's I can pull that off but
it's gonna be this or you know if they're like oh I just want something
simple a couple of shots performance shots I'm slow most and I'm like okay
yeah we could do that in 30 or 40 minutes so yeah I'll do it for this also
you have to take into effect the cost of if you have to rent your equipment like
your camera your lenses your lights and all that stuff I've always owned my own
equipment so I've never had to actually rent so what I usually do is I always
tell the artists like okay what I need to do the video is this now separately
if the video requires say like a model a hotel room airbnb a car the
miscellaneous stuff that is you know the artist is responsible for that that's
just how I do it. Models are the least dependent people for a video if you're
booking a model for a music video have like two backups chances are they're the
video she's not gonna unless that's what you have to balance like okay
finding a girl that's not a professional model that you're gonna throw her twenty
thirty forty dollars thousand ones I'm talking about with odds are they're not
gonna show up to the video now if you're paying a real model and that's what she does that's
how she makes a living and you're gonna pay her two hundred dollars to get to
your video she will be there if you got the budget always work with
professionals professionals so because that's how they if they don't show up
they don't eat if I'm ever booked for a music video I
am there because this is how I make my living now as far as payments and
deposits I've always done deposits when I first started out I wasn't doing
deposits and what I found a lot of the times was there's someone hit you up and
they said they want to shoot a music video Saturday at this time you're like
cool you show up Saturday you're there three four hours and I had some times
with like people didn't show up and they're like hey man we're just gonna
shoot it another day so it's like you still put say three to four hours of
your time to be there and you could have shot the whole music video in three or
four hours but you're waiting on people to show up and they didn't so you were
still there the same amount of time and you didn't even shoot the music video so
you lost out on your time so deposits how that helps you is for one you'll
always be paid for your time when you schedule someone say from noon to four
to shoot a video like that's what that deposit is for it schedules it it locks
the date the time and you're there to shoot the video things happen and don't
go accordingly and you have to reschedule and shoot a video a different
day like for myself for example I tell a lot of people know I'm booked because I
have people scheduled so if someone that I have schedule doesn't show if I'm out
money and that's why the deposit always protects you plus the deposit separates
the serious artist from the not so serious I would say about 80 to 90% of
the people that do hit me up and I just want to know how much the video is how
it works I always doesn't deposit and I know once
they're for real ready to shoot a music video they'll send you the deposit and
then from there you can check out the song come up with some ideas set a time
and date to shoot the video and I've always done the remainder of the
balances do when I actually shoot the videos so that way I'm paid a hundred
percent in full once we finished it in the video now it's on me to edit the
video and I usually do like probably a one to two weeks
turnaround something some people have like a month turnaround it it really
just depends on how busy you are so if I'm gonna be out of town or traveling a
lie I'm a total hard-ass a it's gonna be
like two to three weeks a three to four weeks but usually I try to get it done
within a two-week span because I'm always gonna be shooting
more and more videos and I don't want my workload to get like man I have 15
videos to edit right now so I try to shoot a video and make it a priority
like that week to set aside this day I'm gonna edit it knock it out at the end of
the day for music video pricing it's all about where your time is worth to you so
everyone's different some people are more busy than others some people are
less busy some people are just getting started some people have done hundreds
of videos so everyone's price is different never sell yourself short and
always work with people that appreciate what you're doing for them. Alright everyone
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