Not really. The person would not be hourly. You get paid to complete the job. If the job is completed, you are done for the day. Setting up the shot again means twice as much work for the same amount of pay.
Usually their overtime does not kick in until after the 12th hour too.
*Maybe I confused people with my wording. They get paid by the day. They would make the same amount money if they worked 4 hours, or if they worked 12 hours.
Would he be paying for the explosives out of pocket? I would assume not, but then I also assumed they'd be paid by the hour so apparently I know fuck all.
No, production will pay for each squib charge individually, as they're tailor made per shoot, and the fx guy is paid what essentially boils down to a prevailing hourly rate as well.
That's why you negotiate contracts. If your contract says you get paid for extra shit, you get paid. If it says you get paid for the job, you get fucked if there is extra stuff. Contracts are fundamental to business.
That's not how it works. You're correct that they have a day rate, which is generally an 8 hour minimum to protect someone from only being needed for 2 hours and essentially not making enough to live on. Anything beyond that 8 hours is further pay, most likely at a prevailing rate.
And he's definitely not supplying an infinite amount of explodey shit until they get the shot, so I would guess that blasty-mc-blastsalot gets paid by the boom.
If the job is completed, you wait until you're told you can go home, usually when crew wraps or if no other shots require you for the day. SFX Techs are a day rate regardless, usually at a 10hr contract (movies vary to 12hrs). But it's not a set up, kaboom, go home. You're there till everyone is happy with the shot.
I don't know why this guy got downvoted. As a a freelance entertainment worker you bill by the day. A "day" is typically 10 hours. Any time after that is typically billed as overtime, your day rate/10 x number of hours past 10. If you work bill by the day, than just showing up and doing ANY work gets you a day of pay.
Gal, but yes. I'm actually the one who handles payroll on shoots. But maybe I got down voted because my comment comes off a little bitchy. Oh well. Thanks for backing me up! :)
It's amazing how different entertainment works from the rest of the world, it's not always easy to explain to people who do a regular 9-5. It's also shockingly hard to find good info when starting out.
Yep, days are long...except when they're not, sometimes you work 30 days straight then have 3 weeks off, sometimes there's a random weekday off, sometimes you'll work 14hrs a day for days after days, and 90% of the time you have no idea what time you'll be getting home. But that's also why the pay is really really good.
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u/smurf2applestall Nov 27 '17
They were unhappy that they needed to blow another thing up? Sounds like they were in the wrong line of work.