How would you spend $100,000?
 

Let's pose a hypothetical situation that I face right now. Let's say the company you work for has given you $100,000 to "revamp" the video department. For some of you, this is hardly enough to work with. For others, this may be a goldmine that you only dream of. So, I'm curious... what would you buy with it?

With the money, you are to set-up a 2-person (full-time) studio plus 2-3 part-time people doing editing, camera work etc... You are starting with an aging workstation (3 Ghz Pentium, 1 GB RAM) running Sony Vegas, a Sony PD-150 & PD-170, and handful of other equipement (wireless lavs, bogen pods, etc...) and nothing else.

The primary work of the studio is doing weekly corporate documentary-type 20 min. films (interviewing candidates, b-roll, and putting it all together), plus bi-monthly specialized videos that run no more than 10 min., format conversion, DVD authoring, all the regular business-y type stuff. Your budget should include outfitting the studio for the first time: lighting, curtains, green paint, etc... However, the money does not include any salaries or other employee benefits... only equipment.

I know how I would spend it. But how would you?

Easy.

I'd buy two HDV cams, hire two camera ops, and then steal the rest of the money, fly us down to Vegas, and then shoot a feature film about how a normal guy can blow the remaining $90,000 in a 4 day bender of women, drugs, and debauchery. Then I'd sell it for about $1million, and refund $150,000 to the company I stole it from.

I like the way you think Dylan!!!!!!!!

Mike

I'm with Dylan......and I want in!

Hey Dylan, I'm coming to Oh' Canada today to see the Rolling Stones and Beck in Toronto!

I would spend it very quickly, before anyone realised it was missing!