Re: Shooting Ratios

Hi Mark,
Aside from having worked on a few very small docs, and working on my own doc for the last few years, my experience is pretty slim. Alot of what I had been doing is for an MBA paper was a study on film costs (specifically unscripted). All this input is great.. which leads to one of the next follow on related questions. If you have a guess I'd love to hear it.

(1) Assuming you removed all redundant (jam synced, etc) shots per show, what type of ratios do you have? ( Best guess from your own experience. )
(2) Do you get it all transcribed? B-Roll and All?

I suspect there is no where you could get numbers like this, and I also expect it is different for every show. But a guess from you is at least a major data point that I don't have. I love this forum, there is nothing anywhere else I have ever found that comes close.

I also talked to a friend of mine (D.P. for several feature docs) who taught a documentary camera course I took. He said everything was really getting hit by the recession/D(word). I was forecasting more reality shows being made as they were cheaper, he said that networks and cable channels were just going into reruns rather than doing alot of new projects.

Thanks tons for all the help!

- Brian