10 hour days

[Shootblue]

This may seem like a starter question, but for the basic 10 hour day, is lunch included? If so, how much?

[Baltimore Shooter]

Yes. Typically, it's a 1hr lunch, but AT LEAST 30 min, and that doesn't mean 30 min of wolfing down a sandwich with one hand while your other hand is on the steering wheel as you drive to the next location, like a client did to me once.

Warren

[Icarus112277]

a 10 hour day is a 9+1...the plus one being YOUR time

[freedom]

A 10 hour day is what you and your client agree to!!!

In some parts it means a 1/2 hour on the clock for lunch.
In some circles it's a whole hour on the clock for lunch.
For some, it's lunch off the clock, either a half or whole hour.
On features & commercials, the policy is that if lunch is a half hour, it's on the clock but if lunch is a whole hour, it's off the clock.

So, ultimately you need to clarify this before the job. If you wait until later you can create difficulties and bad relations with your client.

It's the same way with portal to portal & OT.

[Todio]

For me it's 10 + 1 That means 10 working hours plus one lunch hour

FWIW

[Stoney]

For me it's 10 + 1 That means 10 working hours plus one lunch hour

FWIW

Bummer for you...

[BluesCam]

It's supposed to include lunch. I must say I rarely have a 1 hr. sit down lunch when I'm working for hire with a producer. When I steer the ship, it is the rule that we break for an hour. I always pay for lunch unless my client provides it.

[Run&Gun]

I generaly include lunch in the 10. If it was a killer day and we didn't get luch, it's an extra hour of O.T., in addition to any real O.T., on the invoice. I get really cranky if I get screwed out of a meal. I rarely play the "Diabetic Card", but I will if I have to in some situations.

One day last week, we got "loaned out" to work at the end of our original day to work on another project. Same company, different division. So after being on site for 11 hours we were there until almost 1am, an additional 5 hours. No dinner break. I was so mad I could have kicked someone in the teeth. The only saving grace was that I found out the next day because it was a different show/division that we were billing seperately for the "after shoot". Billing for two, seperate, full HD package rates in the same day helped ease the anger, but I still would have liked to have had dinner...

[Cameradude]

"...I rarely play the "Diabetic Card", but I will if I have to in some situations..."

LOL!!! I am so bad. I can't tell you how many times I have whispered to the producer, "don't tell him I mentioned this, but we need to get some food because my soundman is diabetic."

Works like a charm. No one wants that liability.

Ten hour days for me include a meal break. Otherwise, we take one before we get to the last "portal."

[Run&Gun]

"LOL!!! I am so bad. I can't tell you how many times I have whispered to the producer, "don't tell him I mentioned this, but we need to get some food because my soundman is diabetic."

"

LOL :D I wondered why we almost never missed lunch...