Melbourne DOP - Services and Rates
These rates can be negotiated depending on your needs and your budget.
Please contact me to discuss this further.
Cinematographer Rates (with Camera gear)
- Half Day (4 hours)$750
- Full Day (8 hours) $1500
- Additional Hours $100 p/h
Camera Operator Rates (no gear)
- Half Day (4 hours) $450
- Full day (8 hours) $900
- Additional Hours $75 p/h
Gaffer (with Full & Part Lighting gear)
- Half Day (4 hours) $850/ Part lighting $600
- Full Day (8 hours) $1600/ Part Lighting $1100
- Additional Hours $100 p/h
Cinematographer (with camera and Lighting gear)
- Half Day (4 hours) $1200
- Full Day (8 hours) $2200
- Additional hours $150
Drone Operator
- $350 per hour/ flight with property approval. (1 hour is usually enough)
- $500 per hour if liaising with council or CASA approval (council & casa fees separate)
- $1250 per flight for Military Airspace (Approval from Military Squadron)
- All drone ops come with job safety and risk assessment, full location gps, airspace, radio frequency, e.t.c.
- Includes 20 million public liability flight insurance
- Remote Pilots Lic (sub 25 kilos)
- Aeronautical Radio Operators Certificate
- Remotely Piloted Aircraft Operations Certificate
This is for DJI Phantom 4 Pro only
DJI Matrice 600 carrying a cinema camera with lens, gimbal, wireless follow focus, e.t.c. starts at $1250 depending on job and gear list. Call to discuss the project.
Photographer (with gear)
- Half day $400
- Full day $750
Additional Travel Cost
- Additional Travel surcharge outside 25km of Melb. $0.75 per kilometre
Volunteer/ Unpaid DP or Gaffer for Students
I have no problems doing unpaid/ volunteer work if the project is interesting enough to pique my interest. My time will be unpaid, but unfortunately due to expenses, wear and tear and depreciation on my equipment, a minimum charge for the equipment will be charged. This will be around the $300 to $400 for camera gear, which has been heavily discounted.
This includes Red Scarlet W 5K, media, media reader, lenses, tripod, cine saddle, nucleus M or DJI lidar rangefinder autofocus, transmission system, high bright monitor, camera monitors and accessories, which is a very good deal.
If you also require lighting kit as well, this will be around the $400 to $500 mark for part lighting kit and camera. This is also heavily discounted. Please refer to equipment list for details.
You will also need to provide food and drinks/ water as bare minimum and there may also be a petrol fee depending on location.
An IMDb credit for the project also needs to be filled out and no there is no exception to these rules.
Unfortunately I have had to put this in place due to some people taking advantage and not providing the bare minimum.
