How much?
I begin by admitting that is has been a really bad week and this may be the
direct cause of my "poor me" attitude, but I am interested in how much any of
you folks would be charging for one of my typical jobs. I am getting nothing
but grief these days about the cost of my stuff. We all know that the reported
version is usually only a fraction of the actual time spent, which includes
creative experimentation and stuff that never makes it into the final version.
So, here is an outline of the last job and maybe some of you would like to just
throw out some ballpark guesses at a real going rate:
Setting: An environmental remediation pilot project.
Components: 24 major pieces of equipment – all to be realistically modeled,
including duct and piping between components.
Storyboard:
1. Fade out buildings / structures that hide components
2. Show – highlight 3 major treatment systems (solids, liquids, gases)
3. Label and identify flow path through the entire system which is broken down
into 5 sequences
a. solids – thru 3 of the components
b. gases – thru 7 of the components
c. 3 separate liquid systems – each thru a minimum of 6 components
4. Describe one specific component in detail: a soil rotary dryer
a. two concentric cyclinders
b. soil in the inner cyclinder which is feed from a hopper/conveyor
c. heat applied from the outer cyclinder to the inner cyclinder
d. inner cyclinder roatates and is at a slight incline so soil tumbles and
moves down the
length of the cyclinder
e. evaporated contaminants from the soil contained in the inner cyclinder
and carried out
via nitrogen gas carrier.
Process:
Provide client initial storyboard
Receive approval of model
Provide 1st offline (VHS)
Provide 2nd offline – to include changes requested by client (VHS)
Provide final online – to include additional changes requested by client
(Betacam SP)
This part isn't important, but is what I provided:
Total length on tape (including all fades=2sec, 5sec hold at the end of each
segment, 5sec gap between segments to aid post-production guys) = 12 minutes
Well, what do you think? I know it is tough to guess, but any guess would help
me out.
I'll give you some place to start, I will submit a bill which includes my time,
machine charges, and tape that is just over $6,000. Am I wacko? Or what?
Thanks