Notes from the job.
What things cost, what the rules actually say, and how to get more out of a filming day. Written for the people I work for rather than for other videographers.
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Short answer: yes, almost always. The longer answer is about who is flying it, what they are insured for, and what they checked before they turned up. Here is what to ask.
Almost nobody publishes prices for this, which makes it hard to work out whether you are being quoted fairly. Here is what the market looks like in West Sussex and what sits behind each number.
The expensive part of filming is turning up. Once someone is on site with a camera, the difference between one post and a month of them is planning, not time.
Motion is a perception trick. A continuous flight through a space reads as a bigger production than the same space shot from a tripod, and the reason is not the drone.
Got a job worth filming?
Tell me what the project is, where it is and roughly when. I will tell you what I would shoot and what it would cost, before you commit to anything.