Hello All,
I have been doing professional sound work for many years. I started doing post sound with a local group of filmmakers about 4 years ago as a hobby. Over those years I have done a lot of work but never charged for my services. I have become proficient at dialog editing, noise reduction, ADR, sound design and mixing. One of the directors I have been working with is now employed at a company making promotional videos and doing short films. They are also planning a feature film. They have asked me to bid on some work for hire. My question is what is a fair price for post production audio? How do you base your price? Like day rate, hourly rate, or based on finished run time? This customer recently sent me a project to do noise reduction on. I did the worst couple of clips and they were happy with my results so now it is time for me to have a meeting to discuss workflow and payment. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.
I have been doing professional sound work for many years. I started doing post sound with a local group of filmmakers about 4 years ago as a hobby. Over those years I have done a lot of work but never charged for my services. I have become proficient at dialog editing, noise reduction, ADR, sound design and mixing. One of the directors I have been working with is now employed at a company making promotional videos and doing short films. They are also planning a feature film. They have asked me to bid on some work for hire. My question is what is a fair price for post production audio? How do you base your price? Like day rate, hourly rate, or based on finished run time? This customer recently sent me a project to do noise reduction on. I did the worst couple of clips and they were happy with my results so now it is time for me to have a meeting to discuss workflow and payment. Any advice on this would be greatly appreciated.