Here's a sneaky bit of a legal "cheat" that might be a workaround, depending on how they have hired you...
If they are hiring you for a certain number of hours as a videographer.... and from, say, 9-to-5 on such and such a day you are considered "on the clock" for them, then this won't work...
BUT...
If you are contracting with you just for specific footage, paying you a flat rate for your services to fill their shot list, or maybe even paying you per shot, then it will...
You
could simply shoot each of your various shots twice... one take for them, then one take for you. You give them
only "their" shots, the ones they paid for. You keep virtually identical (though technically different) "mine" shots for yourself, to use on your reel or however you see fit.
Now, you didn't say what your footage is, so this might not work. It wouldn't, if say, the footage was a one-of-a-kind and one-time-only take... a 100-year-old celebrating her birthday by bungee jumping, or a building imploding. Nor would it work if you are shooting something that is proprietary to this particular client (something that only they can get you access too). But if they are beauty shots, scenics, or whatever (anything out in the "regular world" that anyone would be freely able to shoot)... then you could easily double shoot them. It would all depend on the wording of your contract, and whether this client has fully completely and exclusively bought
all of your time and talent during the period of the shoot.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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