Movie Making Manual/Sample Shooting Kit
Kit for Shorts and ultra low-budget Independant feature films
[edit | edit source]This a the Sample Shooting Kit fot the Film Equipment Timeshare
Purpose: shorts and ultra low-budget independent feature films
| I would love some feedback on this sample kit. Is it too little? Overkill? Do the estimated prices seem reasonable? |
Feedback: Re sound recorder. For digital video, this would seem to be redundant. Direct input to the camera would do the trick.
| Camera | |
| Sony FX-1 HDV camera with long life battery | 3000 |
| 9" LCD field monitor | 300 |
| Fluid head Tripod | 700 |
| Pro-Dolly | 300 |
| Handheld stabilization gear | 300 |
| Total | 4600 |
| Lighting | |
| Compact 1.2k HMI & accessories | 1100 |
| 300w 3 head kit & accessories | 300 |
| 800w & 1000w 2 head kit & accessories | 500 |
| Softboxes, flags, chromakeys, reflectors | 300 |
| Grip kit | 200 |
| Total | 2400 |
| Sound | |
| 24 Bit 96 kHz Hard disc recorder with mixer | 1000 |
| Mike & accessories | 400 |
| Set of radio mics | 300 |
| Headphones and accessories | 200 |
| Boom | 100 |
| Total | 2000 |
| Accessories | |
| First-aid kit | 100 |
| Walkie Talkie set | 100 |
| Various Flight Cases | 800 |
| Total | 1000 |
| Grand Total | 10 000 |
The £10 000 total cost would be before discounts. For this particular kit 5 production companies could get it for the following prices:
- Buy in £500 apiece (produces £2500)
- Annual renewal £100 apiece (will produces £500/year)
- Daily rental fee £25 (should produce a minimum of
£5000/year)
Assuming financing at around 10% and annual insurance costs of about 10% of equipment value the equipment should be paid off in less than 2 years.
| This could be a bank loan or vendor financing. |
Each company would have guaranteed use of the equipment for 50 days per year more than enough to make at least 1 feature...
This is just an example, these partnership are flexible. A partnership with HD cameras and HBB portadrive sound equipment will have generally higher buy-in and fees whilst entry to a partnership aimed at documentaries could be the price of a good night out.