Question about Invoice for Promo Shoot, layout?

[JoeNash]

Hey everyone,

Last week, i worked on a shoot in NYC, it was a promo shoot for Dominic Chianese, and a possible show coming up, and i worked as a grip. The production company i work for gave me the email for the guy i need to send my invoice, but all the places i usually freelance for (for editing) already had freelancer logs. Was wondering if anyone could help me out with an Invoice that i could send for the grip work i did, and also wanted to know what standard grip rates are for 1 day. It was a full day, with no OT, one guy where i worked said he had heard people charged $225/day grip work. Let me know, thanks


Joe

 

[JoeNash]

plz help.

 

[Owen]

So the day rate was not negotiated in advance?

All you need is a simple typed up billing statement... Here is a sample of mine if it helps, but it's really nothing fancy (Excel spreadsheet format):

http://s65.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=3V7WVYTESZYEH1NX8DGN3NBCXA

 

[Barry_Green]

Around here grips go for about $350 for a 10-hr day. But that's something that should have been negotiated/discussed/agreed to before you showed up for the job.

For an invoice, just about anything will do as long as it includes contact info, job info, etc. Here's the first googled invoice I found, it's from the BBC/UK so modify it for the US:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/supplying/freelancers/docs/sample_format_for_freelancer_invoice.rtf

 

[JoeNash]

Well i was an intern for the production company, and they wanted to hire me full time but i'm still in school, so all the shoots i was going on were unpaid since i was an intern, but i'm working freelance for them now, and this my first job (i'm experienced just not with billing), so the rate wasn't discussed before. The Camera Utility i went with told me other freelancer had been paid as grip day rate was about $225, so i just needed a spreadsheet to send to the client. I'll check out those files and get back, thanks guy

 

[galt]

An invoice can be on a napkin. It just needs:

Your Name and address (and phone)
Date you are creating the invoice
Terms (Due Immediately, net 30, etc)
Date of work performed
Type of work performed (this can be simple or detailed, as needed)
Amount owed.


Usually more detail is better, in your case you could list "Grip Services - 8 hour day" and maybe the location where you did it. If the project had a name (Movie title?) put that on there too. You want to have enough detail that the accounting people can immeditately figure out what the invoice is for and who it needs to go to for approval. If they have questions and have to call you, it will take longer to get paid.