Creative Ways to Make Money at Home as a Videographer

 

Get creative with these 5 top tips on making money at home as a videographer. Whether you shoot weddings, stock, or commercial – there are still ways to make money at home.

With creatives at a global level losing work due to the COVID-19 pandemic, nobody would criticize you for feeling anxious about what the future holds. Making money at home as a videographer, producer, or editor is still possible. It just takes some creative consideration.

Filmmaking by nature is collaborative, and being locked down, either by yourself or with family, is the exact opposite of traditional collaborative work. As a videographer stuck at home, I’m sharing a few tips on how you can make money at home with your video skills. Let’s take a look at a few clever ways to keep that creativity flowing, while still earning a paycheck in your creative field.

Make Money at Home: Stock Video 

If you’re a self-shooter or at least have filmmaking equipment at home, you’re already one step closer to earning income until the storm passes, and that is with stock video. If your reply to that is: “But I’m at home, what do I film here?” you just answered the question.

Popular content shifts throughout the year and often reflects the happenings of the time. For example, a family opening presents around the tree is going to sell better in the lead up to the festive season. As such, brands and companies are going to seek content that reflects the current timeframe. And for a lot of us, that’s staying at home, working from home, homeschooling, and self-isolating.

If there was ever a creative brief that a solo filmmaker could efficiently work from, it’s that. Check out the Shot List for the latest ideas to shoot.

Uploading archive footage to stock

However, while that touches upon creating content that reflects the current situation, you can still get creative and sift through your hard drives to find additional footage to submit.

I’m always guilty of veering outside of the structured shoot to obtain some B-roll of pastel-colored skies or animals grazing in the evening light. Often, I know this material is never going anywhere outside of Instagram, and I’m only shooting the content because it looks beautiful. However, in hindsight, I’ve also just captured perfect footage to submit for stock.  

So, brew some coffee, dust off the old hard drives, and see if you have any clips that can make you money.

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