Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Got Stock Footage?

Orem's Creative Media Group has birthed a new venture, StockShotsNow.com. This is good news for videographers, editors, camera men/women, and producers. They have enabled you to put your stock clips up on their site, which is also searchable by five other companies. If they sell your clip, you receive a 40-50% commission on the sale. This is using footage you've already shot!
You also have the option of becoming one of their Stock Footage Artists, where you are put on an email list where they forward you their clients footage requests. They are currently receiving approximately three to five requests a week. Maybe you have the footage they need right in your archives.
When I spoke with C.M.G.'s John Farr a couple weeks ago about Stock Shots Now, he had just returned from shooting in the Great Britain with one of their coveted Red cameras, which produces video at four times the quality of a Hi Def camera. If he's really lucky instead of selling that footage for the usual one or two hundred dollars per clip, he'll sell it to a major motion picture company for thousands like he did recently with his shots of Paris. He sold a few clips to Sony Pictures which were used in their film, The Pink Panther 2.