What affects your bid?

Your project bid will be based on 5 considerations: Administration, Travel, Capture/Production, and Post Production, and Licensing.

Administration:

- Site coordination (I handle location management if you don’t control the site).
- Licensing and permit fees (if required by municipality)
- Distribution (Digital or physical transfer of files)
- Initial Set up fee. (2TB External Hard Drive, dedicated for your firm's working files)

Travel: (Applies to all projects outside of the Minneapolis/St.Paul Metropolitan area)

- A 25%-50% of a day fee may be applied to days of travel
- Air, Hotel, and Local Transportation Reimbursement
- Shipping or Baggage Fees as needed
- A meal stipend of up to $25/day will be applied for each production member traveling with.
- All receipts kept for direct expense reporting.

Capture/Production: 

- Creative Fee Minimum of a 1/2 Day for any project.
- Projects extending beyond 3 Days subject to rate reduction. 
- An assistant fee ranging from $150-$300/Day may apply.
- Equipment Fees (project based).

Post Production: (Still photography)

- A 1:1 ratio is applied for editing.
        - IE. for each hour of still image capture, one is credited for editing. 
        - Additional time is billed at a direct hourly rate.
- Finishing:
        - Preliminary post processing and gallery creation
        - Enhanced retouching for all selected images (selections from rough draft gallery)
        - Final resolution output, native to the original file.

Post Production: (Film)

- Footage/Audio Logging/Sorting: A 1:1 ratio is applied as credit
- Preliminary Editing clips
- Review footage
- Feature Project Editing: 
        - Draft 1 Rough Cut
        - Draft 2 Rough Cut
        - Final Review Cut

Licensing:

Single Party Perpetual License:
Digital and print production.
        -ie any publication directly published by the primary client.

Social Networking License: 
Web resolution for blogs and social networking. 

Editorial License:
Publish in print and digital books and articles for 2 years from delivery. 

Competition License:
Get out there, show them why you’re the best.

Third Party Non-Commercial License: 
Granted to the property owner for projects requiring property staff/security for coordination and access to location.

Additional Party License: 
Available upon considerations of total investment in project.

Civic Project License:
All projects produced for public municipalities are granted non-exclusive licenses granting rights equal to the firm that commissioned the work. The public paid you, the public paid me.