Managing Media Projects - Managing the People : Industry Agreements (Actors, In-House ITV, 3)

sex, curtailment or cancellation of an engagement, dubbing and post-synching, sound-only recording, dangerous work, transport and subsistence, the use of the artistās performance more than once for flashbacks or flash-forwards, in trailers and/or opening and closing sequences of a series or serial, calls for still photographs, sickness, and ö for long-running engagements ö holiday entitlement. There are special provisions for educational programmes.

The ITV Companies are committed by the Main Agreement to a policy of offering engagements to experienced professional artists, and not to use amateurs to supplant the use of professionals. All engagements made under the

Main Agreement are to be confirmed by use of the standard contract annexed to the agreement.

The fees set out in the Main Agreement are minimum fees. Producers should expect artists with a television track-record (usually through their agents) to want to negotiate fees above these minimum levels.

The Walk-ons Agreement provides for engagement of walk-ons at three levels: (1) crowd; (2) identifiable but non-speaking individuals; and (3) identifiable individuals required to speak a few words of unimportant dialogue.