Dragons Den

[BertiWooster]

Just watched an episode of the above - the one which includes the two women who hire out movie quality cameras for weddings .

All of the dragons stated that it was a good business , although only one made an offer .

However i'm thinking if the market is out there for the business to grow to where it was making huge amounts of profit .

Afterall when it comes to your big day would you really risk uncle Arthur shooting the pictures and making a mess of it - or would you hire a professional ?

[islasmum]

I have to say that I'd really rather pay a professional to do it, if it was going to cost me £830, or whatever they said they charged, but I can also see that other people and their families might like try doing it themselves - one thing that puzzled me a bit was, when they were asked how long it was before the results were ready to deliver, they said 6 - 8 weeks, and when asked how long they actually take to edit, the answer was three days! What do they do with them for the rest of the time?

[boxtops]

Because they've got multimillion businesses of their own already, that's why.

[Andyvon]

The whole concept and programme would fall apart tabathazig if it became known that 'budding entrepreneurs would have their ideas stolen by the dragons!

[Ann]

i posted a thread about this earlier - it sounds a dubious business to me, can't believe the girls got backing from Hilary.
See my link
http://www.theanswerb.../Question1061016.html

[boxtops]

But then why do any of us have wedding photographers? We wanted someone who would do a professional job - the family photos etc complemented what he took, not instead of.

[Andyvon]

I think it's another example of a service provider trying to do as little as possible for the most amount of money. I went to a wedding reception once where each table was provided with a couple of cheap disposable cameras, the idea being that everyone photograph themselves around the table. I never saw the results.

I was in the wedding business years ago when I owned a chauffuer company. I always watched as I waited for the wedding photographers and video-makers and they always arranged and directed the pictures with great care. They all seemed to exhibit great professionalism. That's the difference with this idea - there's absolutely nothing professional about it.

[Ann]

The sample on their website www.shoot-it-yourself.co.uk is appalling - bad filming by real amateurs of mostly drunken guests. I can't see how the 2 business women could edit a film to be worth seeing if the filming was bad in the first place!
I also went to a 60th birthday party held in a really posh hall where guests were provided with disposable cameras on each table. Our friend whose birthday it was, bitterly regretted having all 20 camera films developed - cost him a fortune and were mostly rubbish taken by drunken guests of peoples feet and of each other gurning at the camera!.