Need: African B-Roll

[Ryan Patch]

Hey all:

I'm currently in production for a web series called "Unreasonable TV" (check it out at www.unreasonable.tv) about an entrepreneurship bootcamp in Boulder, Colorado, where the top high-impact, socially conscious startup companies are living and learning here.

We're featuring a man who's started a radio station with farming information to benefit rural farmers in Nigeria, and we're creating a sequence with a radio broadcast, and want static shots of African villages/farms/plains to run under that (think similar to the beginning of "No Country for Old Men").

We're operating on a very limited budget, but can pay $10-25 for every shot that we use, based on quality and length. We're looking for things produced by anything from RED, DSLR, HVX, minimum resolution 720p.

Please contact me at d dot ryan dot patch @gmail.com ASAP - we'll need them by the end of the week.

Thanks!

Ryan

 

[Jay Gannon]

No-one is going to give you African stock even for web broadcast at 25 dollars a shot man...
If your budget can't go any higher check out some of the stuff of the micro video stock sites and you might get lucky with something for 50-100 dollars.

 

[Ryan Patch]

Thanks Jay, I know the market is generally much higher than that, but we're a nonprofit, and I thought I'd ask. I'm aiming for people who live there but don't make a living on stock. I know if someone offered me $100 for 4 shots of New York, I'd be all over that, simple money for shots I already have.

 

[Fredrik Callinggard]

You sure this is not one of those American scams all those Nigerians has heard about :yikes:
:sifone:

 

[Ramesh Jai]

You sure this is not one of those American scams all those Nigerians has heard about :yikes:
:sifone:

Ha ha!!! If it was an American scam then the offer would have been $2,000 per clip!!

I am in Ghana and could get the shots but even in Ghana we would be paid way more than what is being offered. Good luck.

 

[Ryan Patch]

Well, Ramesh: given that we're non-profit, what would you charge for grabbing a few shots?

 

[Tunji Ladoja]

I am in Nigeria and can get you some shots on Red. However you will need to increase your bid significantly by at least 1 order of magnitude.

 

[Meryem Ersoz]

isn't that "entrepreneurship bootcamp in Boulder, Colorado" made up of well heeled venture capitalists, at least several of them retired dot commers? why not ask them to chip in a few bucks to pay a regular rate for a few clips?

if they give you some money to pay the starving shooters, buy it from this guy, his stock footy from Africa is second to none:

http://stockfootage.silverphoenixllc.com/

 

[Ketch Rossi]

What Mery said!

Additionally I will be soon in Cape Town, South Africa were a new Film School is about to open, and I was asked to teach some classes, and since at last I convinced the School's President to buy a Red ONe instead of the Alexa, we could have some shots available as well, but no knowing of when..;~)