Managing Media Projects - Managing the People : Industry Agreements (Musicians, In-House BBC, 6)

6. For recording or miming to pre-recorded music in vision, for films, drama programmes etc. Musicians are engaged for an 8-over-10-hour day, during which up to 25 minutes of music may be recorded, or musicians may mime up to 60 minutes of music. There is provision for additional performance in blocks of 6 minutes, and for additional rehearsal either in 30-minute extensions to the basic day or in separate 3-hour sessions on the same day or a different day, in exchange for additional payments.

The agreement provides for reduced fees for musicians engaged for programmes transmitted in one region only, for Basic 5-hour Sessions, Discontinuous Recording Sessions

(not including signature tune sessions), and live or deferred broadcasts of non-BBC promoted public performances and live or deferred broadcasts of BBC promoted public performances, as described under 1, 2 and 4 above.

Detailed provisions in this agreement cover such matters as fees to contractors providing musicians, payments for night work, additional payments for work more than 16 miles from the centre of the city in which the musician is based, additional payments for playing more than one instrument (doubling), payments for porterage of specified large instruments, additional payments for overdubbing, additional