Hi fellas. Hope you've all had a lovely Christmas and New Year, and that you're all looking forward to getting into some new projects for the year! I know I am.
Speaking of which, I am in the preliminary stages of a new business idea I have to set up what is essentially a YouTube network, which has its own content and collaborates with others in the ultimate goal to be a network youtube channel whereby others would want their videos to be on it and we would pay them for that content, this is an ultimate goal but in the early days it would of course be trying to produce content to create a viable business from advertising revenues.
I'm currently thinking about the kind of content I would create, and I would of course be using a variety of avenues to do so, such as using myself, close friends and family, as well as actors and crew that may be needed for the project(s).
I am beginning to realise that the actors I have previously worked with are often open to working for free in order to boost their portfolios. I've worked with people who are just looking to get their faces in things, and from work I paid them for I could of got them for free if I looked hard enough, I'm talking about actors who don't have a huge amount of experience, but enough to pull off decent performances in small productions. From this I believe I could grab the attention of actors to be a part of my/our projects by offering payment to them on a Shared Revenue scheme.
I wanted to throw this out there, and get some feedback on whether people would consider it viable. For example, let's say I need two actors and an extra crew person for sound for one project for a video. For a start, any pay to go to those who worked on the project would be on a per-video basis (rather than per day), the reasoning behind this is to yes offer a form of payment to contractors but also in a way that creates no cost to create the content (or very minimal), and payment to both myself/my network and those who worked on it would be on a success-or-not (views/ad revenue) basis.
So let's say we worked to create a video. As the owner of the content I would take 40% revenue, then share out the rest 20/20/20 amongst the crew member, and the two actors. Should this be a permanent contract? Or say a % share for certain amount of time/certain amount of views?
This is a vague example.
Do you think this is at all possible? This will be mostly for me a side project, something which I would do in my free time and keep working at it through sheer enjoyment of doing it and hopefully be able to go full time with it one day, have to start somewhere though!
Let me know your thoughts.
Speaking of which, I am in the preliminary stages of a new business idea I have to set up what is essentially a YouTube network, which has its own content and collaborates with others in the ultimate goal to be a network youtube channel whereby others would want their videos to be on it and we would pay them for that content, this is an ultimate goal but in the early days it would of course be trying to produce content to create a viable business from advertising revenues.
I'm currently thinking about the kind of content I would create, and I would of course be using a variety of avenues to do so, such as using myself, close friends and family, as well as actors and crew that may be needed for the project(s).
I am beginning to realise that the actors I have previously worked with are often open to working for free in order to boost their portfolios. I've worked with people who are just looking to get their faces in things, and from work I paid them for I could of got them for free if I looked hard enough, I'm talking about actors who don't have a huge amount of experience, but enough to pull off decent performances in small productions. From this I believe I could grab the attention of actors to be a part of my/our projects by offering payment to them on a Shared Revenue scheme.
I wanted to throw this out there, and get some feedback on whether people would consider it viable. For example, let's say I need two actors and an extra crew person for sound for one project for a video. For a start, any pay to go to those who worked on the project would be on a per-video basis (rather than per day), the reasoning behind this is to yes offer a form of payment to contractors but also in a way that creates no cost to create the content (or very minimal), and payment to both myself/my network and those who worked on it would be on a success-or-not (views/ad revenue) basis.
So let's say we worked to create a video. As the owner of the content I would take 40% revenue, then share out the rest 20/20/20 amongst the crew member, and the two actors. Should this be a permanent contract? Or say a % share for certain amount of time/certain amount of views?
This is a vague example.
Do you think this is at all possible? This will be mostly for me a side project, something which I would do in my free time and keep working at it through sheer enjoyment of doing it and hopefully be able to go full time with it one day, have to start somewhere though!
Let me know your thoughts.
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