PRICES FOR FILMING, EDITING & PRODUCTION (and EXTRA COPIES)

Filming booked by ONE team only

£140.00

Includes editing & production and six free DVD's

Filming booked by BOTH teams

  £95.00 per team

Includes editing & production and six free DVD's per team

During April and May, editing & production can take up to 8 weeks. If you would rather receive just one unedited DVD within a week of your game being played, but for the same prices as above, click here and read the red-coloured text under 'Delivery Arrangements'.

Extra Copies on DVD (or VHS Video)

    £8.50 each

See note below

The above prices for Extra Copies apply only when they are ordered in addition to your initial six free copies and delivered at the same time to the same address. It also applies if you place a bulk order (minimum of 5 copies) at a later date.
Click Here for full details regarding ordering and payment for extra copies.

 The following prices are for Referees who wish to book us to film a match that they are officiating in.

Filming booked by the referee (but neither team)

£70.00

Includes editing & production and one free DVD

Filming booked by the referee (initially),
then one participating team

£60.00 for the referee

Includes editing & production and one free DVD

£95.00 for the team

Includes editing & production and six free DVD's

Filming booked by the referee (initially),
then both participating teams

£50.00 for the referee

Includes editing & production and one free DVD

£85.00 per team

Includes editing & production and six free DVD's per team

Please note that none of the above prices include V.A.T.
(We are not currently registered for V.A.T.)

OUR PRICING STRUCTURE...EXPLAINED

Unlike other professional video companies, we prefer to charge a very low price for filming, editing & production, and charge relatively high prices for extra copies rather than the other way round. This ensures that amateur clubs can afford to have their game filmed in the first place.
Another reason why our prices are so low is because we use cameras which are at the lower end of the professional broadcast-quality market (i.e. between £1,500 & £5,000), yet are more than adequate for filming football matches. Also, we spend a minimal amount on advertising as virtually all of our work is obtained as a result of clubs recommending us to other clubs, and indeed the more clubs that do this, the better it is for them as it will keep our prices down.
Most other professional video companies tend to use cameras that are at the top of the range (i.e. in the £25,000 price bracket) as most of their work is in television programme production, corporate video production, and Weddings for the 'rich & famous'. Because of the high cost of the cameras they use, these companies quote between £300-£600 to film a football match, which is way beyond the means of most amateur or semi-professional clubs. Invariably, those quotes include only one copy, whereas we include six free copies with our filming, editing & production fee.
In addition to that, other video companies' cameramen often have little experience of filming football matches and most of the time we are able to do a much better job for a fraction of the price.
For extra copies of DVD's and/or VHS videos (including orders from our back-catalogue) we charge either £8.50 per copy (for bulk orders) or £11.00 per copy for individual orders. This is actually quite expensive compared to other video companies, who often sell their copies for as low as £5.00 each.
There are a number of reasons why we charge high prices for our copies. Firstly, as already mentioned, we prefer to charge a low price for filming, editing & production so that clubs can afford to have their game covered in the first place. This means that we have to charge a worthwhile price for copies otherwise we would not make enough money to survive as a business.
Secondly, a large number of clubs are happy just to have the 6 free copies they receive after making their filming, editing & production payment and they do not bother ordering any extra copies, even if they have won the match !  In most cases this is almost certainly because they are running their own extra copies off, which is of course illegal, but widespread and very easy and tempting to do. Our way of penalising clubs who do this is to give preference for filming future matches to those who always order extra copies from us, should there be an occasion when we have two matches that need covering at the same time, but only one cameraman available.
The other main reason for the high price of our DVD copies is the length of time it takes to produce a DVD Master Copy. Although it is very quick and easy to run off further copies from the Master Copy, the actual production of the Master Copy itself involves an extremely lengthy rendering, encoding & authoring process because of all the titles, slow-motion replays and transitions that we include when we are editing the footage. In addition to that, the full-colour inserts that we produce with still-frame shots from the match footage use up a large amount of printer ink very quickly, and that greatly adds to the expense involved in producing the copies.
However, bearing in mind that some video companies who film Non-League football matches in other parts of the Country often send out their copies completely unedited straight from the camera master tape onto DVD for £5.00 each (or a similarly low price) in just a plain library box, the prices for our copies are probably quite reasonable.

HOW YOU CAN MAKE A PROFIT FOR YOUR CLUB FROM BUYING EXTRA COPIES

If a club pays £95.00 to have a Cup Final filmed and orders another 10 copies (at £8.50 each) in addition to the 6 free copies, it works out at just £11.25 per DVD per player (for a squad of 16) for the club to break even, so by charging each player £15.00 (for example), you can make a profit of £60.00 for your club by booking us to film your Cup Final. If you charge each player £20.00, you can make a profit of £140.00 !
Even if your opponents have not booked us to film the match and you are paying the £140.00 filming, editing & production fee, it still works out at just £14.06 per DVD per player (for a squad of 16 having a copy each) for you to break even.
We are finding that because it is a fairly new technology with plenty of 'novelty' value, most players are willing to pay up to £20.00 each to obtain a DVD of themselves in action, so you will still be able to make a profit for your club.

NO DISCOUNT FOR SMALL-SIDED MATCHES

We are aware that Youth Team matches vary greatly in the actual playing time according to the age group (and that Cup Finals sometimes end up going to Extra Time & Penalties). We are also aware that the younger age groups only play in small-sided matches.
However, our pricing structure would become too complex if we based it on the actual amount of playing time per match or the number of participants in the match, so we therefore feel it is best to keep a set price for ALL matches.
Unfortunately, we cannot realistically lower our prices for small-sided games because the same amount of time is still involved in editing & producing the video and travelling to and from matches, whilst our freelance cameramen refuse to film any matches for us for less than £50.00...and some of them want a lot more than that !
We would also lose out by having less copies to sell (because there are fewer players taking part).