Yes, there are a ton of businesses out there willing to bend over backwards for you. Why should you pick us? We compete on

1. the importance of quick turnaround;
2. being easy to work with;
3. having the experience and mature creativity to understand your project without you having to explain it 10 times;
4. clear, transparent, pricing policy.

In short, yes. While we focus on Event Videos as well as Family Legacy Films, we are open to any kind of project you have in mind. Feel free to tell us what you need and we will tell you whether we are a good fit.

No, we do not have the necessary equipment to do live, online broadcasts. We focus more on recording and editing rather than live videos.

The answer really depends on the project. If you only need us for 30 minutes and the project demands are very minor, we will consider working within your budget. However, with ever-increasing costs related to high inflation, we prioritize the higher-value projects. But it doesn’t hurt to tell us about your video project to see if we can help you.

If you send us to multiple locations that requires more than 30 minutes of driving time, yes, we will charge for travel time. If the video recording is in only one location and is up to one hour away, then we will not charge for travelling to the shoot.

Keep in mind that any hourly-wage employee in any company would get paid for that time. So, if I worked for Staples and the manager asked me to go pick up a package and bring it back, I’d be paid for the time it took me to go and come back.

It’s the same concept for my business, especially if I’m bringing in a second person (i.e. my assistant Elisif) or hire another freelance assistant. If I know it’s going to take Elisif 30 minutes to drive to the shoot and 30 minutes back to her studio to edit a photograph, I’m not going to ask her to donate that one hour. (Well, I might, but she could say no, LOL.) I’ll at least pay her gas money, and if she has to eat a meal while working with me, I’d probably pay for her meal as well.

Then there’s my time, and the gas in my car, wear and tear, etc. There are often hidden costs that customers never realize are there.

In short, depending on the video production we may charge for travel time, especially if it requires more complex travel between shoots.

The complication to answering this question is based on the fact that licensing fees often change from year to year. However, in general, a regular license for music, say, from Audio Jungle, is good only for online content. So, any ad on social media, or posting the video with the music on your website, would be covered.

Broadcast rights are more complicated. Usually, if the video with the music in question will be broadcast on television or publicly screened in film festivals, you will need a broadcast license.

The cost of regular licenses are almost always less expensive then broadcast licenses. In addition, there are often different classes of broadcast licenses depending on the anticipated number of people that will watch the video with the music in question. For example, a “first-tier” license might be up to an audience of 1 million people. “Second-tier” may be up to 10 million. And so on.

The cost to us for the license will be included in the video project estimate that we send you. If we are unsure about what license is necessary, we will make sure to communicated that to you. Up till now we haven’t had that problem, as we focus on clients who need videos for online distribution such as social media posts.