Im gonna break character here and give you some genuine advice. You are looking at it back to front. I'll explain.
Spend 10K on ONE video (However Great it is) and it just gets stolen straight away and available to view for free to anyone... You are not gonna make anything back on it, unless you are shooting it to order for someone who is paying you 11K for it.
Instead, do it backwards like I did. Create stuff that is unique, unusual, and appeals to a micro niche of fans... Create these videos as cheaply as poosible. Each video I created cost me just £50. They were 20 mins long and I sold them for just £7.99 each. Less than 40 cents a min... Not even the suggested $1 a minute that clips for sale suggests you charge
Because I only paid £50 per vid, once I had sold just 7 videos, I was in profit. Rinse and repeat... Rather than create one single video, I suggest using that 10K to make as many cheaper, smaller shorter videos as possible, because you only need to sell a small number of each to cover costs, then start making money.
Will they ever get stolen? Sure they will, but not ALL of them at the same time, and provided you have branded your work sufficiently, the stolen vids should act as marketing for the rest of them. Which are of course, so reasonably priced, that they are an easy purchase choice for the customer to make... And they do make - Despite officially retarding in 2013, the videos I am talking about, from 2006, still sell occasionally today, and give me a nice little bit of beer money. Not bad for stuff that paid for itself over 14 years ago...
But what do I know? I just like poo...
