Overtime Rate

What this is about

Overtime is where day rates meet reality. A shoot runs long, and the questions are whether the extra hours are billed, how they are counted, and from which minute onward. Common structures are an hourly uplift after the agreed end, a rounded block, or a rule converting a certain overrun into a further day. Whichever is chosen has to be agreed before the shoot and confirmed on the day by whoever is responsible, because retroactive overtime claims damage relationships. Rest periods between shoot days remain a working time question that pricing does not solve.

A term only helps when everyone on set means the same thing by it — so what follows is how it is used, not a dictionary definition.

What runs differently here

Where this differs from the general case:

• Overtime only exists where the day had a defined end; without one there is nothing to exceed
• Agree how hours are counted and who confirms them on the day, not during invoice review
• Rest periods between shoot days follow working time rules that money does not override

With TillyGen

TillyGen builds schedules with realistic setup times, so overtime stays the exception instead of the standing plan.

Change one constraint and the consequences travel through the whole plan: affected shots are flagged, the call sheet is regenerated, and nobody keeps working from yesterday's version.