STANDARD RATE CARD
1st January - 31st May 2010.

TFGtv provide ONLY a Business to Business service and DO NOT provide wedding, social, private or domestic video services. We cannot provide any assistance with enquiries of this nature. Rates quoted DO NOT include V.A.T. which is charged at the current rate.

Package Deals.

Possibly the best value in corporate video production you will find in the UK!

TFGtv Package Deals are complete 'off-the-shelf' production packages designed to give you a realistic 'one stop' idea of exactly what a video programme will cost. Package deals are heavily discounted from our 'rack rates' and are fully expandable to meet your needs. Please note that package deals ONLY include the items specified. Extras such as presenters, bespoke music, complex graphics, excess travel and accommodation etc. are always negotiated separately as they are not always required and are very much options which you may not need or want!

Special terms and conditions...

1) Package deals are subject to crew availability and a minimum of 6-weeks lead time between your booking the programme (i.e. paying your deposit) and filming taking place. Depending on the complexity of the programme delivery will take between 2 weeks (for a simple programme) to 8+ weeks for more complex pieces.

2) Package deal prices are based on discounted rates which are conditional on all deposits, stage payments and final invoiced being settled on time. In the case of a default FULL RACK RATES apply!

3) In all other respects our package deals are subject to our usual terms and conditions of trade.

What do you get?

ALL programmes are fully scripted and project managed to broadcast standards by an experienced broadcast-trained television producer.

For your legal protection a full audit trail is maintained and your programme is professionally rights-managed.

Your programme is shot in full 1080i High Definition.

Your programme will be delivered in SEVERAL formats.... AS STANDARD....

1) A basic standard DVD ready for playing on the average set-top player and for desktop or professional duplication. You get 6 copies of your programme on DVD as part of the package.

2) AVCHD Disc for playback on most good-quality Blu-Ray players in full 1080I High Definition...
2 copies supplied.

3) A computer compatible DVD ROM with your programme in .wmv and Mpeg formats ready for inclusion on your webpage. Again we supply 2 copies as standard.

Three months After-Sales Care free of charge: We'll work WITH your web design and/or exhibition team to get the very best out of your programme. AND we'll give impartial advice when it comes to purchasing Audio-Visual equipment and duplication services.

ALL PACKAGES ARE FULLY EXPANDABLE AND, SHOULD YOU REQUIRE IT, WE WILL BE HAPPY TO QUOTE A BESPOKE DISCOUNTED PACKAGE PRICE TO MEET YOUR EXACT NEEDS.

OUR POLICY IS ALWAYS TO MINIMISE THE COST TO OUR CLIENTS.

PACKAGE 1: The three-minute Webcast. £399 +VAT

Like all our programmes these are ideal for all sorts of trades and industries from small manufacturing firms through to high street trades such as Hairdressers, Dance Studios, Solicitors, Furniture and Kitchen outlets, Clubs, Bars, Restaurants....

Primarily these programmes are intended for webcasting via a site such as YouTube although of course you can embed them directly into your own site. However, as the programmes are also supplied on DVD and Blu-Ray compatible disc they're ideal for exhibition use too!

One of our programmes opened the 2009 Stirling Film Festival at the McRobert's arts centre. So we can safely say that the AVCHD version of your programme is suitable for projection on anything up to (and including) cinema sized screens. And the standard DVD version is ideal for Point-of-Sale or Window display....

Webcast gives you a 1/2 day shoot at a single location, up to 8 hours in Post-Production, Stock Music and simple roll-in graphics created from your existing logo or artwork. Made to a standard format, Webcast puts you (or a member of your team) on-screen to demonstrate or just talk about your company, product or service. We creatively intercut this with shots of your process or facilities, professionally produced music and graphics to make a truly professional presentation you can be proud of.

PACKAGE 2: Webcast Plus! £588 +VAT

Webcast Plus! extends the basic webcast package by allowing you a full day's shooting at up to two locations (within 50 miles of each other and within 125 miles of our base) and giving you 10 hours post-production time. This is ideal for slightly more complex programmes or projects up to five minutes in length.

PACKAGE 3: Basic Exhibition / Point of Sale £1288 +VAT

The basic Webcast packages are shot to a 'template' script which isn't suitable for every use.

Where you have a product demonstration to make or need something a little more dynamic it's essential to create a bespoke script for your programme. Creating this bespoke script and planning your programme involves additional work.

The Basic Exhibition package is suited to creating a fairly brief, 3-6 minute company profile or product demo suitable for use at an exhibition, for point of sale use or for use on a website. Location wise it's practical to cover a maximum of two sites within about a 50 mile radius of each other with this package and we assume that there is a minimum of lip-synced shound to be shot on location; the main audio being voice-over plus music. For example if you wished to use a presenter or interviews, this package would not be suitable

In this situation we do not normally require a specialist sound recordist or specialised sound kit; which means the Director/Cameraman can operate on their own. We're assuming here that any graphics already exist in the form of company logos etc. And that any voice over can be done by a member of the client's staff, although a professional voice-over artist can be provided at extra cost.

Specifically you get:

1, 2 hour meeting with director producer to include a site tour/recce
12 hours scripting/pre production
1, 2 hour meeting with director to finalise script and shooting schedule
1, 8 hour day shooting with solo Director/Cameraman.
Location voice-over recording (done after the initial edit is approved)

18 Hours in post Production which includes:

10hours editing followed by an approval (offline) disc.
4 further hours editing and audio dubbing prior to final approval.
4 hours final preparation and encoding
Library music fee

PACKAGE 4: Extended Exhibition / Point of Sale £1588 +VAT

Extending that idea to a rather more 'corporate style' and more complex programme, we're assuming here that interviews will be shot and/or more diverse locations will be involved. Using a presenter (which costs extra!) or delivering set lines will absorb more time than simply taking 'open' shots, and this is essentially what we're allowing for here.

This time we have a two person crew shooting over two days, with a sound recordist and specialist microphne kit included. Because of the extra complexity of the shoot expect to generate about the same amount of footage, therefore post-production options are the same as in the basic package..

1, 2 hour meeting with director producer to include a site tour/recce
12 hours scripting/pre production
1, 2hour meeting with director to finalise script and shooting schedule
2, 8 hour days shooting with cameraman and audio assistant
Location voice-over recording (done after the initial edit is approved)

18 Hours in post Production which includes:

10hours editing followed by an approval (offline) disc.
4 further hours editing and audio dubbing prior to final approval.
4 hours final preparation and encoding
Library music fee

PACKAGE 5: The basic blue chip package £4888 +VAT

For a really slick presentation you may wish to use a professional actor and voice-over artist as well as utilise modern 3d graphics. This approach can produce extremely prestigious results on a par with those normally associated with blue-chip organisations. Of course that adds complexity to your programme.

The basic blue chip package allows for more time in the planning and pre-production stages. It also includes an extra day shooting, more post-production time and the services of a junior presenter (typically a recent Drama graduate or final-year student) and professional voice-over artist.

1, 4 hour meeting with director producer to include a site tour/recce
20 hours scripting/pre production
1, 4 hour meeting with director to finalise script and shooting schedule

3, 8 hour day shooting with cameraman and audio assistant
18 hours editing followed by an approval (offline) disc.

Location voice-over recording

4 further hours editing and audio dubbing prior to final approval.
4 hours final preparation and encoding

Library Music Fee

Animated Graphic (i.e. your logo animated for TV)

Presenter's fee

Voice-Over Artist fee

Remember; if none of our package deals exactly fit your needs it can always be modified or extended for you. And we're equally pleased to give you a bespoke package rate for almost any programme you'd like us to quote for....

RACK RATES

'Rack Rate' is the term used to describe the full, non-discount price of our individual services. We use these rates to calculate the pre-discount and default cost of any package of services we provide. Full Rack rates are generally only applied to client accounts on which payment is overdue, where programmes are made at very short notice or on productions which take us outside the UK.

Rack rates are also used to calculate overtime and out-of-hours working time, although where these are additional to a package deal (as they almost always are) the actual amount charged will be discounted at the same rate as the package.

COMPANY POLICY IS ALWAYS TO MINIMISE THE NUMBER OF CREW AND THE COMPLEXITY OF ANY GIVEN SHOOT IN ORDER TO KEEP OUR PRICES DOWN. ADDITIONAL STAFF ARE ALWAYS AVAILABLE ON CUSTOMER REQUEST BUT ARE ONLY EVER SPECIFIED BY US WHEN ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.

Agency Discounts

Individuals or companies who can satisfy us that they are bona-fide web designers, advertising agents, P.R. consultants or multimedial content providers may be entitled to take advantage of our agency discounts when commissioning projects on behalf of clients. Special terms and conditions apply to such work. Please contact us for further details.

Pre Production and Administrative Services

Script Development : Services of an experienced programme producer/director in the preparation, processing and production of a programme.
£50 per hour

Research and all other Administrative services
£40 per hour

All crews are equipped with HIGH DEFINITION cameras, lighting kit, full production sound kit. A full day refers to a maximum of 9 hours on location with a one hour lunch break and two 20-minute rest breaks.

Single Operator: Services of an experienced programme director/camera person equipped with High Definition shooting kit, basic audio and lighting kit etc.

£120 per hour/ £600 per day

Standard two person crew: Services of a two person crew; experienced director/camera person equipped with High Definition shooting kit as above, plus audio/camera assistant equipped with mic kit, field mixer/recorder.

£144 per hour/ £780 per day

Additional Audio Specialist: not including equipment hire fees. (May be required for very complex recordings such as pop concerts, performances etc.)

£90 per hour/ £360 per day

Additional technical/production staff: rates dependant on seniority and speciality
£25-£75 per hour/ £100-£350 per day

Day rates, travel time and out of hours services:

1) A standard working day is 9:00am until 5:00pm with a one hour lunch break and two 20-minute rest breaks. This timeframe is flexible within the range of our normal workng hours and can be shifted back or forward two hours as required at no additional cost.

2) Location crew time is calculated from departure from our base (or temporary location if based away from home) until return to our base.

3) Normal working hours for field and production crew are 07:00-19:00 Mon-Fri. Operation outside these hours is normally charged at enhanced rates on the following scale.

19:01-22:00 Base Rate X 1.5
22:01-00:00 Base Rate x 2.0
00:01-06:00 Base Rate x 2.5
06:01-07:59 Base Rate X 1.5

Weekend rates; applied from 00:01 Saturday until 06:00 Monday.
08:00 -18:00 Base Rate X 1.5
19:01-22:00 Base Rate X 2
22:01-00:00 Base Rate x 2.5
00:01-06:00 Base Rate x 3
06:01-07:59 Base Rate X 2

Where staff are required to remain at a location overnight an overnight enhancement of £40-£80 is payable in respect of each crewmember for each night, the actual rate being dependant on seniority. In addition all accommodation, meals and administration costs must be met. The MINIMUM standard of accommodation required is a single private room, with bathroom for EACH crew member.

Post Production Services:

Editing; DV/HDV, After Effects.
£85 per hour

Editing; other formats
£100 per hour + Facilities fees

CD and DVD Authoring: AS STANDARD you are supplied with your programme on a basic DVD with a standard menu. Additional DVD and multimedia design and authoring services, photo editing and preparation.
£75 per hour

Updates and modifications: Your programme can be easily updated, altered or re-worked at a later date. This is subject to our standard edit rates and a minimum charge of £150.

Fuel and Travel costs.

Whilst we do still routinely cover the whole of the UK, Due to current government policies and taxation on fuel we regret that we are no longer able to freely 'factor in' the now very significant cost of UK road fuel into our prices without causing a severe disadvantage to the majority of our customers who are based here in Scotland...

We were faced with a choice of either raising our prices for everyone or introducing an additional mileage charge in respect of road miles outwith what we consider a 'reasonable day's drive'. We decided that the latter course of action was fairer on the majority of our clients.

Package prices and location day rates include the cost of road travel to locations within 125 road miles of our base near Livingston, West Lothian. In practice this means we cover most of Scotland's Central Belt, the Lowlands and Borders and as far up as Oban and Arbroath without incurring any extra travel costs.

Work that accrues more than 250 road miles in any day or involves working outside the 125 mile limit will generate an additional mileage charge of 65p per mile; this figure having been calculated to take into account the actual cost of running our vehicles as opposed to the fantasy figure put forward by the government!

London Surcharge

London has, thanks to its combination of transport policies (congestion and parking charges etc.) and red tape surrounding the simplest of film or video shoots on its streets, become one of the least practical and most stressful places to film in the UK. It's not that we don't like London or Londoners. But frankly, we feel Boris and Co have continued where mad Ken left off and made it a very difficult and unwelcoming place to get through a day's work!

Working in London is always now a stressful experience for our crews. And where once a London shoot was something to look forward to it's now something of a nightmare that people dread to the extent where we need to pay more to persuade crews to go down there.

There is therefore a £400 per day surcharge for each crew of up to two people engaged on a shoot that takes us into the London congestion charge area and an additional charge of £150 per day for each extra crew member.

That's IN ADDITION to the congestion charge itself and also in addition to any parking charges or fines, charges the local authorities might make in respect of permissions or admin plus our administration fees. That surcharge also applies to pre-production activities. Please note that we will not operate without all appropriate permissions, permits in place nor will be operate outside any legislative requirements. Crews are instructed to comply fully with the requirements of police and other officials and if a crew is moved on their time remains chargeable.

If this policy seems harsh then we apologise....

We apologise to the landlords of the pubs we won't be drinking in. Owners of cafes we won't be eating in, shops we won't be shopping in and hotels we won't be sleeping in. We'd also like to express our sincere regrets to the London based runners and production assistants we won't be hiring as a result of this policy. But we're sick and tired of our crews being abused by the London authorities and the petty officials on the streets who have made working in London an utterly soul-destroying experience. When London re-thinks its attitudes to business in the city we'll happily re-think ours!