Making video dynamite for the price of a firecracker

摘要

Just as shooting documentaries for cable has become an increasingly difficult way to make a living, so has shooting the new corporate video or web movie become an exercise fraught with ever-increasing expectations, coupled with ever-shrinking budgets. The reason should be obvious to everyone: too many newly minted shooters with inexpensive DV outfits. Look around. If you've been working freelance camera for a while in the cable TV or corporate worlds, lately you may have noticed that production budgets seem to have no floor. Which means, if you're a corporate client, say looking for a producer, you can most likely find several in your area willing to shoot, edit, score your project, and perhaps do your laundry — for just a few hundred bucks.