Erik Burns
EF0
A friend of mine ( who is a very well known chaser ) calls me today and gives me news of a couple of chasers that sold HD Aurora Tornado footage from fairly close rang destroying a structure. Turns out these chasers pretty much gave the footage away to the TWC program "Storm Stories" for $17.00 and $22.00 a second. This has fired up several chasers, including myself. I for one do not make a living storm chasing. I do like to make supplemental income from my chasing to help with chasing and other expenses. Now Storm Stories has contacted my good friend and the best offer they made for his HD tornado footage is around the digits as mentioned earlier! He offered another low amount back but higher than 22 and they declined his offer saying it was too steep.
So is your HD close up tornado video worth more to you than 17-22 bucks a second? People need to stop giving stuff away for free. Yes there will always be the guys who does something ignorant just to get his name out there for free or way under its worth.
As a chaser that sells footage and provides a service to media sources why in the hell would anybody want to give their product away for free. The media is out to do one thing. MAKE MONEY! Why give them something for little or nothing for them to profit off of YOU and YOUR HARD WORK! When you get your name mentioned for a few seconds and then people forget who you are moments later.
Bottom line this is going to kill footage sales. It is getting out of control. It needs to stop. If you have footage that is wanted and they won't come to an agreement do not sell it. If you don't know what your doing with handling the media and the stuff they will throw at you to low ball. Then use common sense and not your ego. If any media source contacts you and tries to get stuff for free or really cheap. Just think about how much money you make and how much more that company makes. You wouldn't go to work for free would ya? Then don't give out anything for free or cheap.
So is your HD close up tornado video worth more to you than 17-22 bucks a second? People need to stop giving stuff away for free. Yes there will always be the guys who does something ignorant just to get his name out there for free or way under its worth.
As a chaser that sells footage and provides a service to media sources why in the hell would anybody want to give their product away for free. The media is out to do one thing. MAKE MONEY! Why give them something for little or nothing for them to profit off of YOU and YOUR HARD WORK! When you get your name mentioned for a few seconds and then people forget who you are moments later.
Bottom line this is going to kill footage sales. It is getting out of control. It needs to stop. If you have footage that is wanted and they won't come to an agreement do not sell it. If you don't know what your doing with handling the media and the stuff they will throw at you to low ball. Then use common sense and not your ego. If any media source contacts you and tries to get stuff for free or really cheap. Just think about how much money you make and how much more that company makes. You wouldn't go to work for free would ya? Then don't give out anything for free or cheap.