Hello
I'm quite new to all this and am still trying to get my experience up, which is why I asked my local medieval castle (I know the guy who runs it) if I could just do a tour of the bar and outside terrace for practice, and if he wanted them for his web site he could have them. Well, he had never seen a 360 pano before and when I went back to show him the results he nearly fell off his chair! I then went off and put the two panos into TW, set them to music, added a couple of hotspots and showed him this.
He's now very keen for me to produce a full on tour of the whole castle (chateau), with voice over commentary etc, to sell in the shop. Great...except it's a bit like running before I can crawl if you know what I mean. Our next meeting will be to discuss prices. I was hoping for any advice on the following please:
1. Do you think that producing a sellable CD-ROM like this is actually possible, I imagine it is. Has anyone done something similar?
2. The guy has mentioned the idea just in very general conversation that he might sell it for around 11 or 12 Euros (8 or 9 pounds, er...16 USD?) and that I could get say 5 Euros for each one sold. Does that sound like a good way to go do you think? If so would you charge a reduced fee for producing the tour in the first place? He seems to think that such a CD would sell, not thousands of course, but perhaps 10 or 20 a week in high season.
3. I have suggested that I myself produce the CD jacket and burn and print the CD's as required. It's not a huge commercial enterprise, in fact the shop is quite rustic so I think that the quality of design and printing I could acheive myself would be good enough. I could then sell them to the castle guy for a price, which then means I don't have to trust him to tell me how many he has actually sold!What do you think?
4. I think the whole tour might consist of about 7 panos. I would want to design a TW skin for the job, there would be commentary, plus still photos I guess. It could take me quite some time to put it all together, especially with my limited experience to date. But then it's that old problem isn't it, I don't want to charge too much (well I do actually ). Also, I don't think he can afford much either, it's quite a small enterprise. I'm thinking around max I can charge might be 500 Euros (350 pounds), then a cut of the sales. Comments?
Well, I think I would be pushing my luck to expect you guys to reply to any more questions at one time, so I'll leave it there for the moment. Please know that any info, ideas, opinions you might have will be gratefully received.
Thanks for your time Glenn
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