I’ve been shooting stock footage for years. Not only does it bring in a few dollars, it comes in handy on a lot of my projects. A field of grain that I happened to film last year became the “iconic” image of Montana agriculture without me having to schedule an extra shoot (and, consequently, charge the client.)
Stock footage libraries have expanded to cover almost any type of clip you could want. In fact, a few weeks ago, I edited a whole video from nothing but footage downloaded from ShutterStock (one of the agencies that represents my work.) I love how it turned out, and it really showed me the power of using stock footage to tell a story.
Thanks to Kinetic Agency for bringing us this project!