My favourite jobs are as an owner operator, so satisfying handing over the footage at the end and being done with it. Definitely want to do this more next year instead of doing my own projects
I'm seeing this more and more lately actually. One of my friends was doing this up in Hollywood back in 2016 after he got the EOS C300 Mark II. Last year he had largely retired from film last year. He owned his equipment and cameras outright. Then he sold me all of his equipment and cameras. I find myself doing some of the same these days on the side, but also networking with others with similar equipment and to similar ends. I've had similar talks with my boss about all of his equipment as well, but he has no time to be on location and some of his gear is starting to age out. Times are changing.
Have you ever allowed people to rent your equipment without a crew? My company operates similarly to yours, but we have a client who only needs a bit of equipment here and there, without any crew. Do you have any solutions for this?
not sure if i missed the mention in the video, but when you "rent" out your gear for shoots. Do you charge a flat percentage of the value (for example 3-5% of the value of the equipment per day) or you just decide how much it's worth
You are correct, I did not fully watch. Also you are German so you are DOUBLE correct. Seriously. I need to sit down and watch, but I have an aversion to the YT fomula. Though you are very good... do you know MediaDivision? @@damiencooper
in my country they don't pay by the hour, they don't care about the equipment as long as you deliver 4k, they pay for creative talent, creativity costs a lot of money. Here a director can charge a lot of money for directing a commercial, it depends on his proven experience, maybe you should do the same in austria. by the way i subscribed to your channel today, i didn't know about you, i found you linked to a movie trailer. Cheers!
I gotta start making videos where you live because in America I’ve never had a client NOT ask for a full breakdown of the cost. “I have to pay an equipment fee? But I’m paying YOU and you already own the equipment!”
Exactly man! I literally had the conversation last week with my wife that we doing it next year. I have an immense amount of gear and clients assume that I bring everything to every shoot 😅
@@RICH_Photographywow generally while sometimes asked for an all in price, and I’ll often itemize, here in Canada it’s a highly expected. I think the biggest issue is we do get the stupid own/op requests that expect you not to charge for the given camera/lens package.
Honestly came here to react to the low rental rate of only 3-5% while usually here in Canada I’d expect to charge 5-10% of replacement cost. Not to mention €3 for a c-stand?! We charge usually at least $20-25 CAD for a c-stand and arm. Hell even a sand-bag or AC is usually about $5 CAD (about the €3 you charge for a c-stand).
Super interesting to hear your take on that! I just started out doing it this way since the beginning of the year and this is so important 🙏🏼 Happy to have people like you here on youtube to make newcommers aware of the business side of things :)
