[Mike Smith]

You have a number of code errors, which can affect how your html is rendered. Check them at https://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.stadcreative.com%2F if you like. And is there a random div close tag between head and body …?

There’s a thread at https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4973/setting-a-divs-height-in-html-with-css that might help (second answer).

[Mike Smith]

You could offer the client that you’ll contact the owners of the rights with details of the project and ask for a prioe for clearance for the music.

[Mike Smith]

Of course content is crucial … but a facility based on talking-head shows is going to need great writers …. an early study for a web usability expert group reported findings that webcasters should be aware of at https://www.useit.com/alertbox/video.html

[Mike Smith]

Once consideration is whether the space is better run as its own profit centre, with any production / distribution ideas as separate businesses / profit centres.

So if you think you mgiht have a business in this public access or similar style, look around and see what it might cost you to hire equipped production space : that will give you a guide as to market rates, to what facilities are available around you, and what they charge – useful market information for you.

On the technical side, if you want to charge pro rates you need pro engineering, and an all-round capability. Some issues that might come up include :
can you isolate the studio from outside sounds ?
Can you get the floor smooth enough to handle studio camera pedestals, or other tracking devices?
Is there adequate space for lighting store, props and set store, dressing rooms, green room, production office?
Is there easy street access and a big stage door for bringing in large items?

[Mike Smith]

Probably move on and do something more interesting.

But if you really wanted to, you could consider billing for the time and effort you put in and a cancellation fee in respect of the broken contract. It would probably come in below small claims court ceiling so no need for legal fees to pursue. You’d need to show an offer and an acceptance and a cancellation : it would help if there were any kind of cancellation fee clause in the offer. In any event you’d need any claim you might make to be reasonable.

[Mike Smith]

Your approach sounds fine. I’m sure you present it with charm, not sullenness or aggression. That client response feels like a warning flag.

[Mike Smith]

I have a buyer’s guide, due a refresh but largely solid content, at https://www.grapevinecommunications.co.uk/buyersguide/

[Mike Smith]

So it’s all copyright theft …?

[Mike Smith]

What’s it like in FF on Mac?

We can’t really see any errors you may have in html from those snippets. If you have html errors each browser will use whatever rules its creators decided to try to interpret what you meant – and those rules won’t be consistent from browser to browser.

But on the css front you appear to declare #apDiv1 twice, with contradictory values for position. In theory, the later declaration should take precedence – does it in every browser ?

Also alignment-adjust is css3 only, and applies to inline elements – not block-level elements like divs. https://www.cssportal.com/css-properties/alignment-adjust.htm

So there’s nothing shown there to center the div rather than the text within the div – standard technique now I think is margin-left:auto; and margin-right:auto ;

https://thegorillaguide.com/Ref_css_shortcuts.html#NS

[Mike Smith]

Just for the record, perhaps we should clarify that 35mm is a film format for camera use (but not 32mm), and that most mainstream movies today are shot on 35mm. And that 35mm can be shot using 4 perforations per frame (standard, using anamorphic lenses for widescreen effect), 3 perforations per frame(instant widescreen, great quality on digital intermediate), or even 8 perforations per frame e.g. Vistavision, which has largely gone I think with IMax / 65mm film acquistion at the super-deluxe end. Even 2 perforations per frame may be back under consideration, as a cost-saving approach (alongside super 16mm ).