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Hello Pond5ers.
Pondcasts will go into different ways of making money through putting videos onto the Pond5 website.
Pond5 is the best stock footage site and allows beginners and pros to make money by making short 10 second clips and turning them into dollars.
Start off for fun and turn it into a business. This site will explain how certain styles sell and how to use your own originality to sell clips you don't need to follow the crowd.

Wednesday, 6 October 2010

To live off the land as a camera man

Making stock footage.

It sounds like a romantic notion get on a boat, film the boat, film every nut and bolt, film the sea, upload it and sell it! Land in the Shetlands, film some nature hang out with the locals upload the clips, go to Iceland repeat, then land in Newfoundland,Canada repeat going through the States then to Mexico. That is the dream and what a beautiful dream always uploading and always selling clips. But could you?


Newfoundland, Canada



The experiment is to produce more and more on a weekly basis two days a week of work, till I have 200 up. I have however noticed that the people that live off it have 2000 clips up, that's allot of work but allot of practice to get your camera work really good.


My latest clip, this is one I did while up in London making a pop video, it was nice weather so I thought I would get some shots of crowds as this is a big seller, I increased the contrast and put it in slow motion. As it was in Late September, it was really nice almost Autumn Light. I have up loaded 8 of these, this one has shoppers in so could be used relating to Summer Sales/economy. Only another 121 clips to go, I will update you when/if I get any mores sales.(still only 5 so far)




Stock Video by thursdayfilms at Pond5: The World's Stock Footage Marketplace

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