FAQs
- What should the customer know about your pricing (e.g., discounts, fees)?
My pricing is published and it does not move. It is the same on every platform and the same number for everybody. It does not change based on who you are or how big the name is. Two hours of filming is $329. Six hours, which is my full day, is $629. Both include every raw file from the shoot. The longer you book me, the cheaper the hour gets. Two hours works out to around $165 an hour. A full day works out to around $105. If you want photos alongside the video on the same booking, that is $150 per hour and I can also send you edits so that you have the final polished pictures ready to post. That is the whole list. No quote games, no haggling, no surprise line at the end. You know the number before I show up, and it is the same number when I leave.
- What is your typical process for working with a new customer?
1. We talk, and I ask four things. Where is it (I need the address so I know the drive), how long do you need me (one hour, two hours, a full day), where is the video going (IG and FB are vertical, YouTube is horizontal, and I hold the camera differently for each), and how do you want the color. That last one trips people up. Raw means no color at all, flat and gray, which is what agencies ask for because they add their own color in editing. Neutral means the real colors are already there when I hand the files over. Most people want neutral. It is one setting on my camera and it has to be picked before I press record. 2. We lock the date with a 50% deposit, plus a travel fee if you are a long drive out. You go on my calendar, and I message you the day before to confirm.
- What education and/or training do you have that relates to your work?
Self-taught, all of it. I got my first camera as a gift in high school, back before Instagram was really a thing, and I have put around 2,500 hours of my own study into this since then. YouTube university, legitimately. Then I bought gear and used it, upgraded the gear and used that, and talked to people who were already doing this to see how they worked. After that it was just projects. A lot of them. Some went well, some lost me money, some I flat out got wrong. Trial and error, over and over. Now I shoot over 300 Reels a year. That is a lot of filming, and that is where the experience came from.