Rate Questions
Potentially, I might be working on a documentary as the cinematographer (for mostly nature shots.) Operating on interviews will be primarily done by the director.
The director is a friend of mine and has asked me to give her my rates. This is causing me frustration since I have been running my own wedding video business for many years and have never had to come up with a rate for a job outside of my business. She asked for a gold rate and then a silver rate(which would mean if they don't get the funding/grants that they have applied for). I gotta be honest in that I don't even know where to begin. I looked around at some threads about rates but they are all over the place. I would be using one of my own cameras(Canon XH-A1) to operate if I worked on this project. I want to come up with something fair for everyone. I am passionate about the subject and want to do this right. I am hoping somebody could offer me some advice on how to solve this? |
You could try the relevant union (whether it's for broadcast, corporate use or whatever it may come under a different union), as they may well publish minimum or average rates.
In the UK the BECTU union covers broadcast workers and I believe the minimum rate for a camera operator without kit is around £200 per day. Hope this helps, not my favourite nor specialist subject area either! Steve |
$400 a day for camera operator + 3% of retail price per day for equipment rental.
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Jim, does that mean that you work a certain amount of hours a day to get that rate?
What do people do if they work erratic hours? |
Don't know about Jim, be here that tends to be for a 10 hour day. Then you just kind of work it out between yourselves to take into account odd hours, so if you did only 4 hours one day 'cos you were rained off you might do an extra couple of hours on a couple of days to make up. Depends on how friendly you are with your production team, as I think strictly speaking you sign up for those hours and if they don't use you then too bad. Sounds like you have a friendly relationship with your producer and will give and take.
Steve |
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