What to Expect
First visit: either Carol or Carlyle come over for a chat, and take some photos, showing the rooms, architecture, land, and logistics and access those photos go into our database under a codename, and only the 2 of us has access to it.
Your address, name, and personal information will never be publicly disclosed or shared without your permission.
We receive briefs/enquiries from producers, directors, production companies, etc. When a brief comes in that suits your property, we show them a small selection of photos of your home, without any information disclosed.
If they want to see it or learn more about it, we contact you and ask permission - we will tell you the shoot date(s), indicative fee you’ll receive, project in formation (company, film, director, client) and we will arrange a visit with key decision makers.
If your property is selected, a second visit happens: the tech recce - with the cinematographer, art director, sometimes technical crew like gaffer and grip to assess and plan logistics, light, sun, camera position, blocking, etc.
Once everyone is happy, we put a contract in place, between you and the production company, with us acting as Agents. The contract says you provide us with access to the property, rights for the footage captured in your property to be used by the production company and things like toilet access for cast and crew, power, air con, wifi (for data wrangling only).
You get paid in full the day before the shoot, and that income is not taxable (we will ask you to fill out an ATO form called “Statement by Supplier” to ensure wecan all declare the income to the ATO but you will not get taxed on it, as it classifies as a hobby).
On the shoot day, crew and cast arrive, and use the spaces in your property that were previously agreed to.
If they need to move anything, it’s their responsibility to do it, and move it back at the end. Essentially, at the end of the shoot, your house will be exactly as it was before.
The production company and Sunshine Locations have a $20 Million Public Liability insurance as well as Workers Compensation, covering you and your home from anything that might happen during the shoot-it’s the production company’s responsibility to deal with anything that might happen during the shoot.
The fee you receive will depend on a lot of things-how many areas of the house we’re using, shoot duration. It can go between roughly $1K and $1,750 for a day, and longer bookings are negotiated on a case-by-case basis. We do not take any commission from your fee, we get paid on a separate invoice, depending on what service we provide, so your fee is 100% yours.
