Projects That Pay: Making Memories: Video Yearbooks for Fun and Profit

Whether for fun or profit, capturing school events on video can be rewarding.

Pep Rallies. Football Games. Prom Night. Graduation. Ever wish you could be paid to relive your high school days? You can. In school yards around the country, videographers can capture the memories of a lifetime and make a little cash on the side with video yearbooks.

The video yearbook business is a profitable industry these days. Parents and school kids, accustomed to watching life on the screen, buy up copies of custom-made videotapes that contain the images and sounds of the previous school year. As memorable as a bound yearbook, video yearbooks are often cheaper to produce and offer the sights and sounds, bloopers and emotions that still photos rarely capture. And viewing a video is less time-consuming than reading the traditional yearbook with class photos, senior quotes and endless lists of award-winners and sports scores. Video yearbooks offer the amateur videographer an excellent opportunity to hone shooting and editing skills, as well as to earn a few extra dollars doing something f…

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