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How much to charge for one episode of Live from Daryl’s House?
I’m looking for some thoughts on how much you all here would charge to shoot and edit one episode of the web-tv series “Live from Dary’s House.” Here’s an example episode: https://www.livefromdarylshouse.com/currentep.html?ep_id=58
Live audio will be mixed by someone else and will be a separate cost not figured into this estimate.
5 cameras, with four operators.
I’m looking for an estimate for a 15 minute episode and a 30 minute episode. Any guesses?
THANKS!
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I’ve heard of that show, but had never seen it… watched a couple of minutes of it, and scrolled through some of the rest. It’s pretty good (and my era of music).
That’s a big enough project that’d it take some real time, maybe a few hours, to sit down and really budget it correctly…
But since you asked for a “guess”…
Just completely pulling some numbers out of my ear without even remotely putting pencil to paper… my completely wild guesstimate would be something in the $50-100K neighborhood.
That’s just based on the length, production values, the toys that I can tell would take to shoot it (in addition to the ones I could actually see)…
Cheaper if you shot multiple episodes in a single day.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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[Todd Terry] “It’s pretty good (and my era of music).”
I think it’s a gas. Guys in their 40s and up will be amply rewarded for the time they spend looking for the episode featuring Todd Rundgren. 🙂
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Tim, you have killed my weekend, with the Rundgren comment, darn you.
(an aside) But I can be saved, if I had my new uploaded script doctor’s episode to read on the COW… could that happen before NAB gets in full swing?
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[Mark Suszko] “could that happen before NAB gets in full swing?”
I honestly don’t know. The press release deluge has already begun on the backside. They’re not live until the show opens of course, but we’re loadin’ ’em in.
Drop me a note offline, though. I’d definitely like to see it happen.
[Mark Suszko] “Tim, you have killed my weekend, with the Rundgren comment, darn you. “
Yeah, me too. I’ve been watching a couple of the clips more than once already. 🙂
Tim Wilson
Vice President, Editor-in-Chief
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My guess was somewhere in this range as well, though I had thought to charge the potential client looking to do something similar closer to the 15k range per episode. Am I crazy/undercutting myself?
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[Alex Stanton] ” I had thought to charge the potential client looking to do something similar closer to the 15k range per episode. “
Well, certainly you can do a $15K video, and do a very nice job, something to be proud of. We do those every day.
You just can’t do that video for $15K.
There’s tons of pre-prod in that, good bit of post-prod, not to mention the fairly sizable crew and quite a few expensive toys that went into it. There’s probably easily a quarter million dollars of camera, lighting, and camera support gear there alone. And possibly a lot more than that, depending on exactly what they were shooting and lighting with.
When a potential client asks me how much something costs, my usual smartass answer is “How long is a road? Just depends on where you want to go, and what kind of scenery you’d like along the way.” But what I really want to say is “Well, how much ya got?” This is one of those cases, though… if you have a maximum ceiling, then back into what you can spend, and give the client the most/best you can for that money.
Don’t give away the farm, though… remember it’s not just equipment to pay for, crew to pay, and all those hard costs… but your time is valuable and has a costs too, and there will be probably many many hours of it (at whatever rate your time is worth). That’s the first thing a lot of people neglect, since it’s just your time and that technically doesn’t cost anything. But it does. Unless this is just a hobby which you do for free… which I’m assuming it isn’t.
T2
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Todd Terry
Creative Director
Fantastic Plastic Entertainment, Inc.
fantasticplastic.com
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I had no idea Daryl’s show existed but after one taste, I’m an instant fan, I’m filling up my ipod with all these awesome covers.
The show is deceptive in that it doesn’t “look” like it is “lit” all that much, but that’s exactly what costs extra, getting the intimate feel and look without the seams showing all over. The audio work alone on this show is outstanding and the costs in getting it so polished don’t show on screen, but you can hear it.
I don’t know that the songs are really all done live in one take, but if they are, that’s astounding.
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Thanks for the thoughts on this. We are lucky to have a sizable investor interested in getting absolutely the best equipment necessary, so that at least is taken care of. Again, thanks for weighing in.
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I second the audio quality, wow, they did a great job with that.
Chris
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[Chris Tompkins] “I second the audio quality, wow, they did a great job with that.”
Ditto that. I think they did a great job on all of it and couldn’t help but notice the COW’s own Marco Solorio in the credits, which may mean that one or more the the cams was a DSLR or maybe even a Blackmagic Cinema Camera.
But… what I don’t get is the finances of the series. Did the bourbon, the apparent sponsor, pick up the cost of the whole show?? Even if Todd’s estimate is too high, which I don’t think it is given the overall quality of production, where does the money come from? Is this a Daryl Hall ego project and the musicians are working for free? I’d love to know the business details of this project.
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