lawrence189 asked:


There youth basketball games, hockey games, all sports. How much should I charge the parents. For some people I will be doing highlights, for some people I will just record the seasons for them, and clean them up in the editing rooms. How much per game or season, is $20 a game too much?

Layne

3 Responses to “How much should I charge to film and edit basketball games?”

1. stix on October 12th, 2009 12:05 am

   i don’t think that your price is to high, its reasonable if that’s what puts meals every day for you.

2. Doctor Deth on October 13th, 2009 7:04 am

   is it just one parent on the team asking for the videos? if more than one want the same thing, then you can charge less for copies, since it’s very cheap to make a copy once you are done - $20 for the one - if 3 parents want copies, then make it $15 each - you get $45 total for the game. video camera are so cheap anymore - almost everyone who has kids in sports probably already has one

   that’s a lot of time spent editing - how much per hour will that come to for your $20?

   I would charge probably $10 per game per copy just for an unedited video of each game - let the people do their own editing - the kids can probably figure that out on their own

3. D on October 15th, 2009 2:13 pm

   We charged $20 per tape. No editing.

   We were doing multi-camera productions however.

   We did the same for graduations.

   Highlights require much more work and is rarely worth your time, unless you really love doing that kind of stuff and are willing to put in the time because you love it.

   Best of luck,
   D