Hostel Tv...budgeting help

[SydWoodward]

So I ma starting a Traveling T.v show based on hostels across Canada, and one day, I hope the world…big dreams.

Anyways, I just have to do up a budget, and wanted to see if someone could help me out with this. I am going to be using a young crew(im 20 myself)

What do you think it will coast to have a crew of three people, host, cameraperson and a camera person/sound person? Im not relay wanting pros, but talented youth.

I do have one guy interested, who I would call a pro, and he is so into the project that he is willing to do it for about his living coast.


Any tips on getting sponsorship?
So far I have been talking to tourism Canada, and this website that help with finding Hostels across Canada.

I want to go to say Nikon or something like that, We want to make photography a part of the show, uploading pics from are trip onto the website. How would you pitch this?

A little about the show

I am going to be traveling across Canada, staying in unique hostels as I go, accompanied my by best friend Soniya Kollins. We will be filming entire trip as it happens, and then editing it down into a TV show. The focus of the show will not just be hostels, but the interesting people we meet along the way. We want to in incorporate local talent into the show, be they artist, musicians, or athletes. We also want to make the show somewhat of a guide on how to travel with as little money as possible.


One last thing, this being my first T.V show, would it be worth my time to get a experienced producer on board? If show, what should I watch out for.


Thank you very much for any help you can give me.

If you want, you can see my work at http://web.mac.com/raindropfilms
And at http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=1553205170

 

[Landon D Parks]

Well, this is a tough question to answer. Sometimes you can get people to work for FREE, other time they wan't a little money. Sometimes, hey wan't a lot of money.

It comes down to this: If you need a FREE crew, find people who want to break into the industry and give them that chance. Sure, you going to be working with newbies, but look at it this way. They will probably do a good job, since there trying to impress you into giveing them more work, possibly paid in the future. Or there trying to build up there reel or resume and don't want to give you a bad impression.

If you got a little money, that helps. Consider paying the newbies Minimum wage anyway, if you can afford it. This will also add to there ability to do an even better job.

You can get more experianced crew, but expect to pay a lot more money. Also, your not going to be able to influence them most of time. People who get paid to work on films for a living have there own way of doing it, have there own attitude and generally will piss you off before they let you influence them. Since they already have a resume and don't need your measly credit.

Expect to pay a semi-experianced camera man at least $200/day. Semi-Experianced DP at least $300/day and a semi-experianced Director $400 - $500 a day, if not more.

Then you have route #3: The big guys. For this, you need to have about $1-$3 million budgeted for crew alone. This is not an option 99.999% of any indie films takes, for obviouse reasons.

PS) It ALWAYS helps to have someone experianced onboard a project, escpecially in the producer role. However, can you afford an experianced producer? Talk to some producers who have produced several shorts or maybe some shorts and some features. Approaching Documentary producers might also work for you, since there use to wotrking for little money and putting up with peoples ****.