Would you pay £20 for a DVD that showed a typical day at your child's school?

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dd2's school did this this week. Apparently every child will be in it, albeit briefly.

Waste of money or not?

£5 yes, £20 no - too much money.

Isn't £5 a tad unrealistic though? Four people spent all day in the school filming, and will also spend time editing/producing the DVD. There are about 200 families, obv only a part of them is going to order the DVD, say maybe 50? So £1000, of which, let's assume generously, the school gets £200, so the four people get £200 each for their work, is that really so outrageous?

I guess I am just think of DSs school where the ICT technician generally films all the DVDs and produces them so the only cost to the school is the materials.

I can see why the school may have to charge more and probably a lot of parents will buy them because they dont want to miss out or out of some sense of obligation but £20 is a lot of money for a lot of people - that would get almost half my weekly shop!

It's a nice idea but £20 is far too expensive IMHO. I'd rather buy a more amateur version and have the school get all the profits.

No, I wouldn't buy it.

If you assume that the school gets £50 (rather than £200), as is the case at nametaken's school, then the school gets £50 and each person gets nearly £240 (assuming that they are self-employed and split the cash). Which may be many things but isn't a significant fundraising project for the school.

And there are far more efficient and cheaper ways to produce such a DVD than having four people spending all day in the school filming. If you do it more cheaply, probably more people will buy it and you can have a larger donation to school funds from each copy sold.

dunno, to ensure that 250 children will all appear in some fashion requires quite a lot of planning I think, not sure if the school staff would be able to do that

£10 sounds more reasonable.

I was going to say no way...but I would love to see a DVD of my shcool with me in it when I was 6, so just incase the DC's wanted to watch it whne they are older I would.

No, but I would love to see what actually goes on in a typical day in my dcs class.

£20 absolutely not.

A couple of years ago a photographer went into school and a montage slide show of a day in XX was produced. Howver the photos were not sold just used for display.

It would be a nice idea if it was produced by the older children and I would gladly pay £5 for something like that but £20,never.

Not sure it's doable for £5 though

Wouldn't pay £20

I might pay it, but I would certainly begrudge it. £20 is too much.

A teacher at our school did a lovely slideshow one year with loads of pictures from around the school over one day with the school choir as the background music. She didn't sell it, but I think people would have happily paid £5 for that and it would have cost very little to produce.

We had a professional company film our nativity plays and it was £10 for all three plays on one disk. I would say £10 is the limit before people start to get peeved.

Our school did one for the reception class, it was £6, £20 is waaay too much money.

It was lovely and now I actually know what he does, as he doesn't tell me anything!

Not at that price.

A fiver yes, £10... only if featured lots of my own dc's.

No.

£20 is taking the piss.

no, but then I don't even buy school photo's.

DS2's nursery has just done this. We each got given one to take home and view before deciding whether to but so I will watch to see what it's like and how much he features. It is a lot of money though, so probably not. It's 20 pounds for one, 35 for two and 45 for 3 so would at least be a bit cheaper if several parents got together and put in one order.