A Simple Guide to Pricing Your Filmmaking Work

[@petersarellas]

Tag your videography/production company pages below so I can check out what you're working on!

[@CandylandProd]

Great info, thanks for the help! Question for ya, I do a ton of live productions @candylandproductions and need to hire help, should that cost go to the employer or is it my responsibility as the production company?

[@eliclarkmedia]

Working as a freelancer in sports is also more difficult because most of the times it’s a kid/teenager you are working with and they don’t want to spend much. So make sure you don’t undercharge and know the value of your work.

[@petersarellas]

DEFINITELY have to make sure you know your worth and stick to it no matter who you’re working with 💯

[@PlutoFE]

i needed this because i just got more gear that would help with my stuff

[@petersarellas]

Awesome!! Glad this video came in clutch

[@DezEditzz]

I need this! This is what I'm struggling with rn lol! Love your content btw ! I will be submitting a video or two soon, also I've only be doing sports content for a year now!

[@petersarellas]

Love to hear this helped you, and yes please submit your videos to [e-mail]!

[@jonathangasse]

You brought value to the table here, my friend

[@chrissi7873]

Very helpful. Thank you!

[@petersarellas]

Glad it was helpful!

[@oracioadjovi1205]

Thanks !!! This helped a lot

[@petersarellas]

No problem, glad it helped!

[@Ry311GP]

Do you ever include how many edits or revisions the client gets w the post production quote?

[@colliervisuals]

perfect timing i needed this 🙏 great vid as usual

[@petersarellas]

Love to hear this came out at the perfect time for you!! 🙌

[@lrv.mov18]

SO. HELPFUL. Thanks man

[@petersarellas]

You’re welcome! Happy it helps 🙌

[@dcsuperzam]

One thing to note is the type of client. I was rejected before because I quoted $500 for a project. But then I quoted another type of client $2,000 (for the same amount of work) and they later told me I was undercharging because my work is great. So it really depends on if the client knows the value of the work as well.

[@petersarellas]

Yeah pricing can be so tough and definitely varies from client to client. At the very least being consistent in your pricing like that can help you weed out clients that aren’t right for you and find ones that are 😊

[@friendlyfilmz]

Love this! Like and subscribe right here. I’m trying to develop my indie filmmaking channel and you are a wonderful inspiration!

[@petersarellas]

Lets go!! Love that this video helped and happy to have you aboard!

[@gersinhomachado]

great video bro, thanks for that

[@petersarellas]

No prob, thanks for watching!

[@DroseMr]

Intresting 🎉

[@synthesized7432]

Exactly the video I’ve been searching for, not sure how I missed this one since I am subscribed!? Thanks so much for all of the info Peter! I’ve found a few other videos on this topic but they were super vague with the breakdowns, and weren’t much help at all, but yours was sooo helpful! One little question, when it comes to covering your music, stock video or vfx subscriptions etc, how do you incorporate those costs into your project fee for editing? If your monthly subscription is $30. Do you just charge an extra $30 to cover that monthly cost? Any insight would be amazing! Keep up the amazing tutorials!👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

[@waakkeuppp]

I have that same rode microphone - and it produces a buzzing sound - so you get the same buzzing sound when you use it?

[@Sports.live1]

This is good for me because I never know if I’m charging too much or to little

[@petersarellas]

Awesome, well then hopefully this helps!

[@LifeStyleByEchelon]

How do you calculate travel fee?

[@henrylehmann8219]

Do you think I should upgrade to the 70-200 f2.8 or the canon r6 mark ii first?

[@markymark6296]

I've been shooting for 1 1/2 years now and have been shooting for FREE, it seems difficult for me to charge.

[@petersarellas]

It can definitely be a challenging thing. At some point you have to just say a price and be okay with possibly being rejected. Hopefully some of what I talk about here can help you out.

[@waakkeuppp]

5:21

[@스타-g7h]

형 넘 멋있어❤

[@petersarellas]

Haha thanks 🙂

[@IvanMixtapes]

Do the aame video but editing only

[@petersarellas]

Could you not take the post-production part of this video and apply it to your editing? How would that video differ from this one? If you have something specific you’d like me to add my thoughts on and I could give it a unique value proposition I’ll consider it.

[@JonackFilm]

very good video :)

[@petersarellas]

Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@schoeferfilm]

I am a fulltime passion filmmaker 😂 if I do not my daily work 😂 best cinematic greetings from an older german KZbin filmmaker

[@petersarellas]

Absolutely nothing wrong with making videos for hobby!

[@A1-Odyssey]

pricing is the most difficult part of this whole thing tbh

[@BARKERPRODUCTION]

The bigger the client is, the more likely they will need slightly more detailed invoices.

[@AlphaLeoPro]

@alphaleoproductions LOVE YOUR WORK PETER!

[@petersarellas]

Thank you! Appreciate it 👊