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Movie Making Manual/Sample Shooting Kit

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Kit for Shorts and ultra low-budget Independant feature films This a the Sample Shooting Kit fot the Film Equipment Timeshare Purpose: shorts and ultra low-budget independent feature films I would love some feedback on this sample kit. Is it too little? Overkill? Do the estimated prices seem reasonable? Feedback: Re sound recorder. For digital video, this would seem to be redundant. Direct input to the camera would do the trick. Camera Sony FX-1 HDV camera with long life battery 3000 9" LCD field monitor 300 Fluid head Tripod 700 Pro-Dolly 300 Handheld stabilization gear 300 Total 4600 Lighting Compact 1.2k HMI & accessories 1100 300w 3 head kit & accessories 300 800w & 1000w 2 head kit & accessories 500 Softboxes, flags, chromakeys, reflectors 300 Grip kit 200 Total 2400 Sound 24 Bit 96 kHz Hard disc recorder with mixer 1000 Mike & accessories 400 Set of radio mics 300 Headphones and accessories 200 Boom 100 Total 2000 Accessories First-aid kit 100 Walkie Talkie set 100 Various Flight Cases 800 Total 1000 Grand Total 10 000 The £10 000 total cost would be before discounts. For this particular kit 5 production companies could get it for the following prices: Buy in £500 apiece (produces £2500) Annual renewal £100 apiece (will produces £500/year) Daily rental fee £25 (should produce a minimum of £5000/year) Assuming financing at around 10% and annual insurance costs of about 10% of equipment value the equipment should be paid off in less than 2 years. This could be a bank loan or vendor financing. Each company would have guaranteed use of the equipment for 50 days per year more than enough to make at least 1 feature... This is just an example, these partnership are flexible. A partnership with HD cameras and HBB portadrive sound equipment will have generally higher buy-in and fees whilst entry to a partnership aimed at documentaries could be the price of a good night out.