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Montauk, New YorkIn Prep day 1 of 5
Navy Yard Stage, BrooklynIn The Edit day 6 of 8
Moab, UtahIn The Grade day 2 of 3
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Stage One in the Navy Yard: a set built for a commercial, lit with a tungsten fresnel and flagged by hand. Scroll, and the camera dollies through the doorway onto the frame.
The set: a plastered flat with a doorway, a director's chair, a 2.5K fresnel on a wind-up stand and a black flag on a C-stand. Beyond the door, a frame from The Long Dry.
19 lines of kit on the truck, each with the package it rides in and its day rate when it comes with a Gaffora crew.
+99132 ReviewsAn average of 4.9 out of 5
Started Gaffora with one camera and a borrowed van.
Lights with the sun when he can and with a 2.5K when he cannot.
Keeps every shoot on its day and every estimate honest.
Finds the film in four hundred hours of rushes.
Builds a look per film, never a preset.
Brings the sun inside on a 6K and a bounce.
They found the film inside our brief and shot it in two days. The cut-downs were ready before we asked for them.
Clara WenBrand Director, Northline OuterwearElias shot my record like a short film. The lake scene is the one people stop and screenshot.
Ines ValeMusicianThree weeks on the plateau with a crew of three, and not one wasted day. The edit found the story we hoped was there.
Marcus OyelaranCommissioning Editor, Field Notes ChannelThe estimate landed within four percent of the final invoice. In fifteen years of commissioning, that has happened twice.
Sofia BrandauerProducer, Maison ArloNoor built the grade with us in one afternoon, and we have kept that look for a year of campaigns.
Daniel KerrCreative Lead, Aster Skincare
Six short steps, a live estimate beside them and a reply from Hana, our producer, within a working day.
Each rate is a crew and its camera package for one shoot day, from the same numbers the estimate uses. Build any of them into a full estimate with your own days.
Interviews, observational films, long-form
Build This EstimatePerformance, narrative and one-take videos
Build This EstimateBrand films, spots, cut-downs for every channel
Build This EstimateThe treatment, the references and the estimate, agreed before anything is booked.
1 to 2 weeksCasting, locations, permits, the schedule and the call sheets.
1 to 3 weeksCall at 7:00, wrap at 19:00, and the rushes backed up twice before the van leaves.
1 to 16 daysThe cuts, your notes pinned to the frame in the Review Room, then the grade.
1 to 6 weeksMasters, cut-downs for every channel, subtitles and the archive.
2 to 5 daysSix short steps with the estimate beside them; Hana, our producer, replies within a working day.
Reference GF-000000, estimated at $0. Hana will reply within a working day.
The four questions we hear first. The rest are on the FAQ page.
All QuestionsShoot days times the crew size at an average of $650 a person, the camera package by the day, edit days at $900, grade days at the grade's rate, the extras, then a 12% production fee and a 10% contingency. The Shoot Estimate page adds it up as you go.
$6,400 a shoot day: a crew of 7 with the Anamorphic Package. The edit and grade come on top, priced from the days they take.
No. It covers weather, overtime and the unplanned. What is not spent comes off the final invoice.
Yes. Tell us the number and we will shape the days, the crew and the kit to fit it, in the estimate, before we start.
