Originally Posted by JustDaveXxx

Babes and x-art are long days. 2-3 camera shoots and are very expensive days. Those camera men are getting $500 on average.


I also don't see them getting more than 2 scenes done in a day. We are talking 12-18 hour day.


If you actually look at X-Art, Im pretty sure that its one scene a day. I checked out a few of those videos and near the end of the ones I saw, you can obviously see that its night time.


Two scenes like that in a day, I can easily see a director who runs one of the cameras making 2k in a day. But making 8K in one day today? No way!! And getting 3 of those type scenes done in one day and keeping up the quality, I never see happening unless they are running 2 seperate crews on the same location.


Budgets for those type of BG scene are 6K-7K. Thats with a good location and good talent. $5500 with a cheap location and lessor talent.


Both situations, the director is only walking away with 1K per scene. And thats only if the scene goes good from start to finish. Guy has wood issues and you have to kill it, ohhh man!!


You can easily eat 1K-$1500 in kill fees. Happened to me once on that level. I paid out of my pocket and I still had to come back and shoot the scene. Keep in mind, the client pays for a completed scene, not my problems on set.


Hope that helps you.


Just Dave