Rates for new audio post facility?

[Sonsey@mac.com]

Originally Posted by georgia

Mind you, I, like everyone here has done and will do LO/No pay, but I am VERY careful about who I do freebes for.... freebies have a habit of just never ending... and when that rent bill comes due... well lets say it's hard to convince the landlord that the project you are working on is so cool and, an epic piece of film, that he should let you have the rent for free so you can keep doing the work for nothing...

cheers
geo

Unless of course the landlord is one of the producers! LOL! Seriously... happened to us once upon a time... But point is well taken, and that was the exception, not the rule...

[Berolzheimer]

I heard an interview with this author the other day (on Science Friday), he had some very interesting things to say that I think are relevant to this discussion.

Macmillan: Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) William Poundstone: Books

Science Friday Archives: The Psychology of Prices

[Justas]

Originally Posted by Berolzheimer

$100/screen minute for what? The whole sound edit, Foley & ADR & dub & deliverables? That would be $9k for a 90 minute feature. If so that would certainly fall into the "undervaluing our work" category, even for low/no budget pics. Try about 5 times that amount for low budget indies.

The post sound budget for a decent-small sized feature down here in Argentina is around 12 to 15k... And it can go down to around 9k much too often...
The standard rate we have is around u$s 800.- a week for editing, ADR is usually charged by the hour (aprox. u$s 40.-) and a Dolby-THX mixing stage can charge from u$s 650 to u$s 800 a day. First class foley would add about u$s 4000.- to the whole budget, but local producers are rarely willing to pay for it.
Prices are so different, but the stories are very much the same...
Best regards to all.