Pricing Photo & Video Shoots: Day Rates, Crew Overtime, Kit Hire, Usage Licences & Job Wrap-Up
Build the full estimate for a fictional commercial shoot: recce, prep and shoot days, crew overtime, kit and studio hire, marked-up expenses, usage licences by media, territory and term, post-production hours, a top sheet with margin and the final invoice after the wrap, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
In this course you build the complete estimate for a fictional commercial shoot, one section per lab. You price recce, prep, shoot, travel and hold days from a day rate with SUMPRODUCT, split crew hours into time-and-a-half and double time, and hire kit with a three-day rental week plus insurance and studio blocks. You add a handling markup only to the right expense lines, price usage licences from media, territory and term multipliers with XLOOKUP, and discount a multi-media package. Then you estimate retouching and edit hours, build a top sheet with contingency, tax and gross margin, and wrap the job by comparing estimate and actual and billing only approved overages.
Lessons
- The Estimate Skeleton: Recce, Prep, Shoot, Travel & Hold Days at the Right Rate Pro
- Crew Day Rates & Overtime: Ten-Hour Days, Time-and-a-Half and Double Time Pro
- Kit & Studio Hire: Day Rates, the Three-Day Week, Insurance and Half-Day Studio Blocks Pro
- Production Expenses: Catering, Mileage, Per Diems and a Handling Markup Pro
- Usage Licences: Pricing Media, Territory and Term with a Multiplier Rate Card Pro
- Post-Production: Retouching Tiers, Edit Hours per Finished Minute and Revision Rounds Pro
- The Estimate Top Sheet: Contingency, Tax, Gross Margin and a Section Chart Pro
- Wrapping the Job: Estimate vs Actual, Approved Overages and the Final Invoice Pro