Web design for videographers
Nobody reads a videographer's website. They press play.
Everything on the page is only there to get somebody to start a film and keep watching for ninety seconds. That means the film loads instantly, it is not buried under an autoplaying showreel with music, and the page around it answers the two things a viewer thinks about the moment it ends: is my date free, and roughly what does this cost. We build the version that does that, host it and look after it, with a £0 upfront website design fee.
- Per month: £49.99
- Upfront website design fee: £0
Illustration: a videographers pictogram beside an example website built for that trade.
The films
Four films, each with a still that makes somebody click it.
A wall of twenty thumbnails is a decision nobody wants to make. Four, each with a chosen frame and one line saying what it is and how long it runs, gets far more of them played all the way through — and a film watched to the end is most of a booking.
Stills here are illustrative. Your own frames replace them, and films are embedded from wherever you already host them so the page stays fast and the video stays high quality.
The enquiry
The film sold it. The form has to not lose it.
Somebody has just watched four minutes of your work and is, for about thirty seconds, as convinced as they will ever be. A contact page with a name, an email and a blank box is where that enthusiasm goes to die.
- Date at the top
It is the only answer that ends the conversation, and it should not be the fifth field. Everything else is detail hanging off it.
- An optional budget band saves everyone time
Let people say roughly what they had in mind, and make it optional. It stops the long exchange that ends with somebody discovering they were never close.
- Ask what they want covered
Full day, ceremony and speeches, a short highlights piece. Three completely different jobs, and knowing which one before you reply is the difference between a quote and a conversation.
PrimeStart sites do not take deposits or payments, and do not host video files. The enquiry arrives as an email, and your films stay on whichever platform you already use.
Packages
Three packages, and the honest reason each one exists.
Video is bought by people who have no reference point for what it should cost, which makes them nervous rather than careful. Three clear options with a starting figure gives them something to hold on to, and turns "how much are you?" into "which one suits us?".
- Give the running times
"Four to six minutes" tells somebody what they are actually buying. The single most common disappointment in wedding film is a piece that is far longer or far shorter than expected.
- Say when it is delivered
Six weeks, twelve weeks, whatever is true. Delivery time is the second-biggest complaint in the trade and publishing it filters out anybody with unrealistic hopes.
- Two operators, drones and licences
If a second shooter or drone footage costs more, say so beside the package rather than in a follow-up email. Drone work needs the right CAA permissions, and where you hold them it is worth stating.
Prices shown are the example company's illustrative rates. Yours are your own, and we change them whenever you want.
Your site plan
Five pages, and the wedding work never sits next to the corporate work.
A couple planning a wedding and a marketing manager buying a brand film want opposite things and are reassured by opposite signals. Mixing them on one page weakens both.
Home
One film that represents the work, a line saying what you do, the starting price and one obvious way to check a date.
- The film
- From
- Check a date
Weddings
Three or four full films, how the day works with you there, running times and delivery, plus the packages.
- Films
- Timings
- Delivery
Business film
Brand films, interviews, event coverage and social edits, written for somebody buying on behalf of a company.
- Brand
- Interviews
- Social
Pricing
The packages with starting prices, running times, what changes the figure, travel and second operators.
- Packages
- Running time
- Travel
About & enquire
How you work on a day, the kit and the licences you hold, the area you cover, and the date enquiry form.
- How you work
- Licences
- Availability
Generally up to five pages on Website, planned around how your customers choose.
Need something extra later? No problem. PrimeStart customers can order additional services such as extra pages, branding and one-off optimisation through their client dashboard whenever they need them.
Website + SEO
Why being second on the recommendation list is expensive.
SEO is optional monthly work on how easily local customers find you, aimed at three searches agreed with you. Most video work arrives through venues, photographers and recommendation — and every one of those people checks the website before passing the name on.
The kind of searches SEO works on
- wedding videographer Chester
- videographer near me Chester
- business video production Chester
£349.99/month total, website included. SEO never promises a position, a number of enquiries or a revenue figure. It promises the work, every month.
Already have a website you are happy with? Ongoing SEO is only available with the managed website, as Website + SEO — PrimeStart does not run SEO on a site it does not host. If you would rather keep your current site, talk to us first and we will tell you honestly whether moving it across is worth it.
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A site that matches the work
If the films are good and the site is not, the recommendation quietly stops. Coordinators and photographers are staking their own name when they pass yours on.
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Found by the people already searching
"Wedding videographer" plus a town is searched by couples with a date and a venue. It is a small, valuable audience rather than a big vague one.
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The right enquiries, not more of them
Publishing running times, delivery and a starting price means the enquiries that arrive already fit. Volume is not the goal when every job takes a week to edit.
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A page built to convert once they arrive
The film plays, the price is visible, the date field is at the top. There is nothing to work out, which is exactly the point at ten o'clock at night.
Business film and wedding film are effectively two different products with two different searches. SEO treats them separately rather than averaging them into one vague target.
Your Client Platform
Swap the lead film the week after a good wedding.
Every PrimeStart customer gets their own Client Platform. It is where the project lives while it is being built, and where you ask for changes once it is live.
- Follow the build stage by stage, without emailing to ask
- Send a new film link and say where it should go
- Message PrimeStart directly, with the whole thread in one place
- Preview the draft before anybody else sees it
- Approve the website before it goes live
- Ask for changes afterwards, and order services when you need them
- See your SEO report, tracked searches and recommendations each month (Website + SEO)
Embedding, thumbnails and page weight are handled by us, so a page with four films on it still loads quickly on a phone.
Illustration of the Client Platform for a fictional videographers business. SEO reporting is included with Website + SEO.
Where the work comes from
Your best marketing is the photographer you were easy to work with.
Wedding video is a recommendation trade. Venue coordinators, photographers, planners and bands all get asked "do you know a videographer?", and the name they give is usually the one whose work they have seen and whose website they are not embarrassed to send someone to. That is a low bar, and a surprising number of videographers fail it with a site built years ago that no longer represents the work.
The other half of the trade is business film, and it behaves nothing like weddings. Somebody is buying on behalf of a company, they need to justify the choice internally, and they are reassured by clarity: what you deliver, in what format, by when, and roughly what it costs. A page written for a couple will not do that job, which is why the two live separately.
Both audiences end up in the same place, though: a page that plays a film quickly and answers the practical questions underneath it. Everything else on a videographer's website is decoration.
The plans
The same film website, with or without the monthly SEO work.
The Website is the whole thing: designed, built, hosted, managed and kept current, with your domain name included. Website + SEO adds monthly work on how easily local customers find it. Clear pricing. Straightforward terms. No surprises.
A film website that plays fast, answers the price and delivery questions, and turns a watched film into a dated enquiry.
Designers usually charge for the build before the website exists. We absorb that cost and recover it through the monthly service, which is why the plan carries a minimum term, and why there is nothing to pay up front beyond the first month.
Complete the term and the website is yours: stay with us on a rolling basis with no new minimum, or move it to hosting of your own.
Want PrimeStart working on how customers find you? Website + SEO is £349.99 a month in total, with the same website included. The same managed website, plus monthly work on three agreed searches, treating wedding film and business film as the separate markets they are. How SEO works
£49.99per month
- Upfront website design fee
- £0
- What you pay to start
- Your first £49.99, at signup
- Minimum term
- 18 months
- Over the minimum term
- 18 × £49.99 = £899.82
- After month 18
- The website is yours
- If you stay
- £49.99 a month, rolling, no new minimum
What the plan includes
- Films that start instantlyEmbedded properly, with a chosen still and no autoplaying music
- Running times and delivery publishedThe two things people are most often disappointed by
- Packages with a starting priceSo "how much are you?" becomes "which one suits us?"
- Weddings and business kept apartTwo audiences reassured by opposite things
- An enquiry that starts with the dateCaught while somebody is still convinced by the film
- A professionally designed, custom-built WordPress websiteGenerally up to five pages, planned around how videographers are chosen
- Hosting, your domain name and SSLIncluded and managed by PrimeStart
- Security, backups and updatesKept current, backed up regularly, WordPress and plugins updated by us
- Enquiry forms and basic Google foundationsForms that reach you; structure, titles and descriptions search engines read
- Support, small changes and your Client PlatformReasonable small changes subject to fair use, and one place to follow, message and approve
How it works
Your part is choosing four films.
Choose a plan, send us the films and your packages, then tell us what to change on the draft. We do the rest.
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Choose your plan
Website, or Website + SEO. The upfront website design fee is £0 and your first monthly payment is taken at signup.
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Send us the work
A short onboarding in your Client Platform: the film links you want leading, chosen stills, your packages and running times, delivery times, the area you cover, and where enquiries should land.
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Ready to Build
We check we have what we need. If a price or a package needs a decision, we say exactly which, and get on with the rest.
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First draft
A working draft with the films embedded and the enquiry in place, so you can watch the whole journey on a phone.
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Approve and launch
Reasonable in-scope changes, then you approve it. Nothing is published until you say so.
We aim to have your first website draft ready within 5 working days once PrimeStart has everything needed and confirms your project is Ready to Build. Payment alone doesn’t start the clock; missing details, revisions or domain delays can extend it.
You review the draft and request reasonable in-scope changes. If there’s a genuine problem we can’t put right within scope after reasonable attempts, we can cancel the agreement and refund Website subscription payments made, subject to any disclosed non-recoverable third-party costs.
Questions videographers ask us
How much does a website for a videographer cost?
What happens at the end of the 18 months?
Is the domain name included?
Will my films be hosted on the website?
Can the site autoplay a showreel across the whole home page?
Should I show the same films to wedding and business clients?
How quickly will I see a first draft?
What is SEO, and do I need it to start?
You make the films. We'll run the website.
Web design for videographers at £49.99 a month with a £0 upfront website design fee: films that play instantly, packages with running times and a starting price, and an enquiry that begins with the date.
Prefer to call? +44 7446 265140 or email contact@primestart.co.uk