Managing
Media Projects - Managing
the People : Industry Agreements (Actors, In-House ITV,
2)
Appendix covers the engagement of Stunt Arrangers and Performers.
The Main Agreement provides for a programme fee, which gives
the producing ITV Company the consents needed in order to make use of the
recorded performance and the right to transmit the programme in defined areas
of the ITV network, or on the whole of it, according to the level of fee paid.
It provides for repeat fees, again for part-network or whole-network transmissions.
It allows the producing ITV Company to acquire the right
to license the use of the recording containing the artistās performance for
transmission by other UK broadcasters (subject to certain conditions) and
overseas, subject to
payments
calculated as royalties ie a percentage of the licence fee earned by the ITV
Company, divided between the actors involved in proportion to their original
earnings.
The Main Agreement provides for daily and weekly fees for
attendance, with provision for overtime and additional payments for attendance
on public holidays and for night work, and for travelling days, as well as
for standby days.
It also contains a great deal of detail, dealing with such
matters as the precise definition of working hours, the video-recording of
auditions, performances for pilot programmes, the recording for television
of all or part of theatrical productions, nudity and simulated