Finance Crew and Equipment Prezi Part 1

Contributor Experts

Contributor Experts:

Experts are people who have in depth knowledge regarding a particular, group, place, individual etc, which means that directors and producers can use their expertise during the pre-production and research and development stage of a short film's production. This means that the film's subject will be more accurate and authentic. 

An example of a expert used in film may be the use of an expert in a war film. Directors and producers will contract researchers and historians to ensure that past events are reconstructed accurately to today's standards.

Contributor Public

Contributor Public:

Public contributors refers to public bodies and the public itself, which play particular roles in productions, e.g. background crowd scenes in short films, which is cheaper than having to remove everyone from the street and hiring lots of extras to create background scenes. A producer or director will often allow public contributors by petitioning the local authorities for access to public locations.

Contributor Talent

Contributor Talent:

During a film's production, talent refers to specialist performers. This talent can provide a service that regular and main cast are unable to do e.g. dancers or singers can be used in a short film if the main cast is unable to dance or sing. However talent can also refer to A list celebrities and people who have be place in the main cast and roles. They have often developed specialized performance skills which allow them to become raised above other performers.

Contributor Specialists

Contributor Specialists:

Specialists are people have advanced skills in one particular area of expertise. Specialists are often hired for films and they are placed in charge of operations where their skillsets make them the most qualified person to oversee that operation. An example may be pilots, who are the only people with the skills to fly planes.

Similarly they may also be used to perform specific and important production roles. An example may be a drone camera operator or special effects engineer who are the sole people capable of performing the production role.

Finally, specialists can be hired to train other members of the production crew, which allows the knowledge to be used even if the specialist is not available. An example may be a martial arts trainer, who can teach others martial arts quickly.

Contributor Biographies

Contributor Biographies: 

A contributor biography is when experts, specialists and talent, who are apart of a film's production, are given a bigraphy in any marketing of the film e.g. press kits. 

Key people involved in the production:

- Director

- Producer

- Screenwriter

Principle actors/actresses will also be given a contributor biography to recognizance their role in the film's production.

Finance Crew

Finance Crew:

- BECTU stands for Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union and is a trade union functioning in the United Kingdom. 

- BECTU is the UK's media and entertainment trade union.

- BECTU dignity staff, contract and freelance workers based mainly in the UK.

Here is a list of suggested rates for key crew:

Crew:

Director/ Producer:

- Director, going rate for 48 hours in a week is £1200-£1345

- Producer, going rate for 48 hours in a week is $925-1037

Camera Operator:

- Going rate for a 10 hour day, £276-£309
- Going rate for a 12 hour day, £381-£473
- Going rate for a 5 day 50 hour week, £1492

Editor:

- Going rate for a 8 hour day, £213
- Going rate for a 60 hour week, £1368
- Going rate for a 50 hour week, £1087

Hair and Make-Up Artist:
- Going rate for a 10 hour day: £560

Electrician/Sound Recordist:

- Electrician: Going rate for a 50 hour week: £1,200
- Sound Recordist: Going rate for a 10 hour day: £320

Finance Talent

Finance Talent:

- The BBC and equity (the actor's union) have a television agreement that states an actor's minimum engagement fee should be £603.

- On the off chance that the engagement is for one week that speaks to 68 work days. Every work day being 8 hours in length of time.

- If the engagement is for two week this speaks 5 x work days.

- In reality, numerous autonomous and low budget film creation venture battle.

Finance Equipment

Finance Equipment

Here are the kind of kit that I would be looking for prices:

- Tripod (fluid head) 

- Lighting (three point lighting kit)

- Slider/glidecam equipment

- Jib crane

- Sound recorder (XLR cable connection - increases quality)

- On-board and stand alone 

- Microphone

- Boom pole

- Wind shield

Here is an example of some possible costings:

Capturing the image

- Camera, HD, full HD and sensor size SD (720 x 576)
(sensor size increases the costs, and improves the image) 3

3 camera's with different sensor sizes:

- Canon EOS C300 Mark II, daily rate hire is £193. Sensor: 8.85MP Super 35mm CMOS sensor (www.hireacamera.com)
- Canon XC 10, daily rate hire is £65. Sensor: 1.0 inch CMOS sensor (www.hireacamera.com)
- Canon EOS 5D Mark III, daily rate hire £68. Sensor: full-frame 22.3 MP sensor (www.hireacamera.com)

Tascam DR-40 Portable Audio Recorder

- Daily rate hire is £12
- A 6 day shoot is £60

Sennheiser shot gun mic

- Daily rate hire is £17.22
- For a 5 day shoot it is £86.10