[Michael Mediavilla]

You really need to know what’s going on in your market.

I would avoid flat-rating a job with new clients, especially clients that are new to the post-production world.

We will flat-rate a job when an existing client, someone with whom we have a longstanding relationship, comes to us with a fixed budget that we have to back into. We carefully evaluate the scope-of-work and make a decision based the job at hand and the history with the client.

Projects with “hard” deadlines usually work out well in these scenarios

Crescent Beach Productions, Inc.
Long Island Video Production Co.

[Michael Mediavilla]

Pond5.com
Stockmusic.net

Both have a pretty wide selection of music available as a “buyout”

Crescent Beach Productions, Inc.
Long Island Video Production Co.