Pre-Production Major Project: Contract Research

When creating a contract between you and an employee you have to consider every thing that could affect you as a producer/company.
I went looking into what sorts of things needed to be covered in my contracts so that we are covered.

I found out that the contract had to be a written document as this is more professional and easier to look back over. This should be read and agreed upon by the producer and actor then both sign and get a copy whether by scanned document or a printed document.

Some of the things covered should be the pay, whether they are being paid and when. In our case we are not paying so we need to adjust this and put that we are covering travel and how much, whether its train, car or pick up.
The dates of the production in as much detail as possibly can, so for us we have said the date of the whole week even though we plan to have at least one day off in the 7 days. Plus the times of the day we play to film but keeping it in small doses.
Whether they will get a copy of the end result, on DVD, Digital copy etc.
Whether they have to supply their own wardrobe
What they are credited for and they know what role and what in entails.

From this I now know exactly what I need to cover in my contracts and for how much detail is needed so that each actor knows what they are getting and that they will provide us with what we need and not to drop out of the production. The below image shows a basic contract for a low budget production made, this is a good example to start at for me to create my own but I am to write more details into the being available, food and drink provide and the amount of  money will be paying towards their travel.