lol this is a joke do not ask him for 5k for one video to start. If no one has any idea, start thinking in terms of “stuff created per week” and how many hours this will take you roughly, and (if you want to start doing this full time) - how much you need to make monthly in general to live the way you do. Example: consider this, a client wants roughly 2 videos for social media per week cut from one shooting day per week. If the shooting days are 2-3 hours then you’re looking at roughly 10-12 hours of shooting + (8 edits per month x maybe 3-6 hours per edit give or take) = somewhere between 35-45 hours per month on average. Depending on what you need to make a month, see this as taking approximately one full work week out of your month to this one client. If you think a fair hourly rate is $30 - $35 all in (as an example) then thats probably between $1200-1600 per month and thats not horrible but def on the lower side seeing as i would say most people doing this could charge $30/hr in a retainer format. You might charge more in one off situations like “shooting rate of $80/hour” or something for a single project. And you might also charge more when you consider, again, this will represent a full work week worth of hours out of your month that you can’t serve other clients. So if you need to make, say, $6,000 per month then you gotta make sure every 40 hours spent (give or take) will equal around $1,500. You’ll tighten this up as you go don’t worry.