What would be a reasonable arrangement to charge a production company if they want to set up 12-3pm today and then use the space for 12 hours tomorrow. I agreed to 3 hour set up originally assuming they will rearrange some furniture. In reality, the loaded a truck worth of equipment rendering my space unusable for the rest of the day. What would you charge them?
Traditional location services charge a full day rate for shooting days, and half that for prep/strike days. So for a $5,000 shoot day, the fee would be $2,500.
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I’d charge them the entire time they occupied your space (business hours maybe). For the exact reason you said, you can’t book other guests since they are using your space. This might be tricky since it seems there was a miscommunication, on their end they probably fully expected to get away with using you as overnight storage even though they only paid for 1 day.
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For one-day bookings that want to load-in and prelight/stage the day before I charge them for 2 days. This is standard in NYC. Might be different in LA and elsewhere.
If they just want to drop things off, and it does not impede my renting the space to someone else, I do not charge them.
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What is a day? if they are doing 12 hour day shoot. 12 hour day set up? Or a shorter day?
Full day rate = 10hrs in the industry.
Never charge a production less than 1/2 day rate (75% of your full day).
Booking 12-3 splits your day making it unusable to other clients - you cannot get another half or full day booking - so a half day is not an acceptable rate in this case.
We’ve done half day rates for pre-light but we only allow them in after 5pm and max till 10pm.
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