Shooting For Stock

Stonefield wrote on 1/27/2005, 8:41 PM

If someone wanted to start shooting unique footage for stock and selling it thru their own website, where would one find info about that...?

Shooting for stock, delivery formats, marketing, distribution, pricing, legal, etc.

Any and all links of this matter would be appreciated.

Comments

Trichome wrote on 1/28/2005, 10:33 AM

www.artbeats.com could serve as a model.

Jimmy_W wrote on 1/28/2005, 12:05 PM

Stan, I would definitely would buy some of your stock footage ;)

Jimmy

randy-stewart wrote on 1/28/2005, 5:16 PM

I'm definitely interested in any info sources also as I'm considering doing the same thing with Hawaiian footage and music. You don't see too much of that in the other libraries.
Randy

tadpole wrote on 1/28/2005, 5:37 PM

yep - HUGE market for stock footage at REASONABLE prices..

Think the stock footage market is based on the old model of ANY one producing professional level videos must be rich & have $100,000s into equipment and $100 for a couple clips is no big deal...

Its a different world... pro quality cameras are affordable to average joes and you don't need a studio with $100,000s of editing hardware to produce pro quality videos... ya just need vegas baby! vegas

I'll be ready to invest in some stock footage for a fair price ;)

Stonefield wrote on 1/28/2005, 5:38 PM

Thanks guys, I appreciate that !

tadpole wrote on 1/28/2005, 5:41 PM

oh, and i can't WAIT for the next generation in digital storage (blu ray discs..ect)

Stock footage is nice - but it also has to be handy (as well as best possible quality). DV tapes are good for quality, but rewinding & fast fowarding to what you want is a real bummer... being able to pop in a 120+ gigabyte disc, and clicking a button to get the 1 clip you want is going to be real nice... can't wait.