How long does it take to produce video?

An interesting post from andydickinson.net expanded on a previous article where it was claimed that it can take up to 1 hour of total production time (from pre-prod to shooting to editing) for every 1 minute of useable video footage (for journalistic purposes). Read the article for the details, but more importantly, this is a crucial cost metric to understand for anyone that would ever think about buying stock footage (or requesting a certain clip). Of course it would depend on individual circumstances, but if you can assign a dollar figure to that production effort, you could really get a good estimate of how much money and time you save by purchasing content from a third-party site.

If anybody wants to venture a guess as to how much you think 1 minute of journalism-focused video production costs, we'd love to hear it!.

How long to locate film rights?

Thought I would post this classic Fountainhead scene. I'm going to do an experiment to see how difficult it is to locate the license for this clip and get the cost so I could post it legally on the blog. I have a good idea what it will cost but not sure how long it will take. Let me know what you think it will cost, how long and then what you think about Howard Roark. I've asked Getty and Warner Brothers to see who could license the rights and how much it costs to license just this scene for my blog. Until I can post this the legal way, I'll let Youtube catch the heat for me.

This should give you a little background on the scene, courtesy of wikipedia, one of my favorite sites. Post your guesses.