Posted by Steve Guidry on 12/23/68 11:28

Since you have a track record with them, maybe they trust you enough to do
it on a unit cost basis. here's how I'd pitch it :

$ 500 per day of rehearsing
$1250 per day of shooting.
$150 per hour of editing
$ 50 per hour for scripting and planning meetings.

They do more, or do their part more efficiently they pay less. They make
you do re-edits or re-shoots, they know in advance the unit costs.

That's just my $.02 . . .

Steve




"P.C. Ford" <meoh@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message
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> Ok, I'm willing to take any abuse I get for asking this question.
> (I've read past posts in this regard.) But I press on:
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> We have been asked to produce two 30 minute videos for a large
> company. We have worked with them in the past. We did a 10 minute
> video (was supposed to be 5-7 minutes) for well under 5 figures. They
> are fine folks to work with.
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> Here are the main points:
> 1. One video will be a demonstration of a new product. The other will
> be a tutorial on its use.
> 2. They will provide script. They prepared the script last time and
> did a good job, though project went long.
> 3. Shooting will be in one room.
> 4. There will be two actors in each video. (Though not the same
> people, as I understand it.
> 5. We will provide director, 1 cameraman with lights and other support
> eqwuipment, editor and production assistant. I will do some assistant
> editing and production management/misc. wrangling.
> 6. Provide about 10 DVDs
> 7. There will have to be a bit of video razzle-dazzle to this or it
> will be dry as dust.
> 8. Two days of "practice"/rehearsal. One day of shooting.
> 9. Delivery in about 30 days after shoot.
> 10. I have minimal overhead to support at this point.
>
> I know the old cliche' saws about industrial project cost. (ie. $1k
> and minute and up) However, if the cost for help mentioned above is
> porportional to costs in the original project, I can't see charging
> anything approaching $1k per minute.
>
> Your comments?
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