A film is quoted as a day and delivered over a month. The shoot is one line and the client thinks it is the whole job, while the treatment, the grade, the sound pass, the music licence and two rounds of notes are the part that actually fills the calendar.
Open the generator from this page and these are already in the document, with their units set. Put your own prices against them, add your logo, and save the PDF.
| Line | Unit |
|---|---|
| Treatment and scripting | job |
| Shoot day, crew of two | days |
| Camera and lighting hire | days |
| Edit, first cut | job |
| Revision round, beyond the agreed two | each |
| Colour and sound | job |
| Music licence | each |
No rates against the lines, on purpose. What you charge is yours, and a suggested hourly rate published on a web page is a number somebody sends to a customer without meaning to. The figures beside it are one worked job, not a price list.
All nine are free in the app, on every document, with your logo and one of five accent colours. Each is named after a koi variety and drawn to answer to it, and the pictures are the real thing, printed by the renderer that draws the PDF your customer opens. Scroll through them.
Red on white
On the page. The house design. Letterhead on the left, a serif title and the facts on the right, one wash of accent off the corner and a hairline closing the head. Two things on a white page, placed well.
The ink itself
On the page. The most restrained of the nine. One hairline of accent along the very top of the sheet, no rules under the letterhead, a table with no lines in it at all and air where the ruling would have been.
A blue net, laid straight
On the page. The regular one. The title centred between two rules, the parties standing in two columns beneath it, and a table that holds its order without drawing a single line to do it.
One metal, nose to tail
On the page. The loudest. A full-bleed band of accent across the head carrying the title, alternate rows washed in the same colour, and the grand total reversed out of a block of it.
One red circle, centred
On the page. The formal one. The title and the document’s facts inside a ruled box with the letterhead beside it, and the largest title of the nine sitting in it. One block, deliberately placed.
Black answering a second colour
On the page. The technical one. The letterhead in a narrow left column divided from the title by a rule, and a table ruled across and down, like a page out of an account book.
One row of scales, down the spine
On the page. The centred one. Letterhead, title and facts all down the middle of the page, closed by a pair of rules rather than one. A certificate rather than a bill.
Five colours in one fish
On the page. The layered one. The title reversed out of a tab in the top corner, the parties in two columns, and every figure at the foot gathered onto a panel of its own instead of the total alone.
Tea brown, and no pattern
On the page. The plain one. The whole letterhead sitting on a single panel washed in the accent, the table boxed beneath it, and no colour anywhere else on the sheet.
The lines above: treatment and scripting, shoot day, crew of two, camera and lighting hire, edit, first cut, and the rest of what videographers bill for, each with the unit it bills in. Open the generator from this page and they are already in the document, waiting for your own prices.
Because what you charge is yours. A suggested hourly rate published on a web page is a number somebody sends to a customer without meaning to, so the lines carry their names and the units they bill in, and leave the figures to you. The example job beside them is priced so you can see the document add up, not so you can copy the numbers.
Yes. They are a starting point rather than a form. Add, rename and delete them, and in the app the price book keeps whatever you settle on so the next invoice starts from it.
A PDF. The generator saves one through your browser's print dialogue, and the app draws one on the phone. There is no Word or Excel version.
No. The generator asks for nothing, and the app works before you make an account.
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