prof_fate wrote:
Might be something a second shooter can work on for parts of the day, so the cost of capture is relatively low. Could be sold I suppose as a video instead of them hiring a videographer. Still have PP issues. Now if you're a big enough business to perhaps have cheap help - HS kid, intern or $10/hour and they can edit it up for $50 (5 hours) your labor cost might be $200 to shoot and edit.
But IMO that's still a lot of work on teh wedding day - mental challenges, lighting challenges - you're learning a new skill set, new career in some ways, and developing a new product to sell.
Why?
For artistic reasons is one thing, but for profit? You'd almost certainly be better off selling something else instead - bigger prints, parent album, ipod w/ pics on it, etc.
I see some value in a video for promotional reasons - that stillmotion vid is cool, put it on your blog or website perhaps, or a dvd you hand out to prospective clients.
What I think will happen is you'll confuse the consumer - "Oh, you do video and still?" when you really don't, or your vid product is very different from what the client expects of a wedding video, althought I suppose you could overcome some of that with more gear, personell, etc. (like recording the whole ceremony, all the dances, etc)....Show more →
