• There has been a recent cluster of spammers accessing BARFer accounts and posting spam. To safeguard your account, please consider changing your password. It would be even better to take the additional step of enabling 2 Factor Authentication (2FA) on your BARF account. Read more here.

rate for a videographer

amazighlol

amazighlol

'
Joined
Sep 7, 2015
Location
San Francisco
Moto(s)
2012 CB1000r
2006 zx6r 636 (track)
2014 S1000rr (RIP)
Name
T
We are trying to hire a videographer for a 4hours event at work but I am no idea about the rate. Does $600 seems good (editing included)?
 
I'm not clued in to prevailing rates, but that seems pretty reasonable to me. Probably well under $100/hr all told.

My thought would be that if you care enough to pay someone for it, focus more on the quality of their portfolio than their rate at first. Better to pay a bit more for something you're happy with than get a good rate on low quality work. And quality does indeed vary, both on acquisition and editing.
 
amazighlol said:
We are trying to hire a videographer for a 4hours event at work but I am no idea about the rate. Does $600 seems good (editing included)?
Click to expand...

If editing is included, that's a steal.

Typical bay area videographer day rates are between $400-$800. Up to $1200 if union labor is required. Your proposal sounds like 1.5 days of work.
 
TylerW said:
If editing is included, that's a steal.

Typical bay area videographer day rates are between $400-$800. Up to $1200 if union labor is required. Your proposal sounds like 1.5 days of work.
Click to expand...

We just need the shots since I'll do the editing/color grading. We just need someone, for 4 hours, to take the shots.

Thanks!
 
Guy came in and made a video about my company. Shot around the office, lab, & shop for about 6 hours. Edited the video into something slick. The bill was about $5k.
 
Generally, you pay day rates for anyone who knows their shit. $600 is a decent price for a videopgrapher, equipment not included.
 
We finally used this website: http://thumbtack.com

We got different quote from really good photographer (amazing portfolio).

And you can apparently ask a quote for anything.

Tarek
 
BMW said:
Guy came in and made a video about my company. Shot around the office, lab, & shop for about 6 hours. Edited the video into something slick. The bill was about $5k.
Click to expand...

This ^^
 
BMW said:
Guy came in and made a video about my company. Shot around the office, lab, & shop for about 6 hours. Edited the video into something slick. The bill was about $5k.
Click to expand...

Wish we could pay 5k, but this is tax payers money (not US).
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top