This is a brief excerpt from Ron Dawson’s DareDreamerMag
No contractor credit issues on this set since I was director,DP, sound guy AND editor.
If you’re a growing video or photography business, at some point you will most likely have to hire subcontractors. These could be second shooters, sole shooters, or editors. When that happens, you will face a very important decision: how do you handle the work those contractors produce?
Who gets the credit?
Whose Vimeo page does it go on?
Who gets to blog the video/photos?
What if you shot it and a contractor edits it?
What if a contractor shot it and you edited it?
What if a contractor shot AND edited it?
This is particularly a big deal in the wedding and event market where you have a lot of fellow wedding vendors shooting and editing for one another as people try to relieve their backlog. Imagine if a bride comes across the exact same video on someone else’s blog that is on YOUR blog or site? It could get awkward. By the way, that happened to me in my first year in business. The videographers who shot my own wedding (a wedding I edited) had their edited version of my …
By: Ron Dawson
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