Dear Friends,
The last two years, we had the chance to have Christophe Favreau taking pictures of nearly all events of the European Grand-Prix.
During this time, Christophe worked for free and I arranged him free transportation, accommodation and/or pay him his fees (partially with the money of the European Class, the rest was private funding). As the french team was sailing most of the events, organizing transportation was quite easy and often, 4US or Sefico offer a place to sleep to him for free.
As you could imagine, this model is not sustainable. Already for this year, I will not attend to all events for personnal reason and Sefico will not sail all event as well. I discuss the point with Christophe and the fact is that if we have to find another solution that ensure him he will have some money before coming to an event, so I started to work on that and here are the result.
The basic idea is to ask each team having a sponsor to pay a "Media Fee" of 100 euros for the whole season. . This media fee will have to be paid at the beginning of the season and is independent of the number of regatta you will attend (so even the australian will pay it). In counterpart, each team paying this fee will receive a DVD with a selection of the best pictures of its boat as well as the videos of each event
For the team having no sponsor, Christophe will continue to sell CDs after each event (30 euros) or a DVD at 100 euros at the end of the season.
At the end of the day, for a team it would be less expensive that buying CD after each event as last year, and this will answer Christophe's concerns.
In the previous line, I mention the word "video". We are on the way to sign an agreement with an Internet TV for broadcasting, after each day of each event, a video of the regatta. We will also have a dedicated "chanel" on the website where all the video will be broadcasted and podcasted. In addition to pictures, Christophe will also film the regatta and select the best rushes and upload them to the FTP site of the Internet TV company every day. The final mounting (music, effect …) will be done by the TV company and the subject will be broadcasted the day after. In addition to that, these videos rush will be available for other TV chanels for free. There is no exclusivity clause in the agreement.
I think this is a good news, even if, of course, having similar agreement with Eurosport would have been better :wow:
Please share your thoughts !!! |