You will – 

• Be entitled to work in New Zealand.
• Have an IRD number.
• Advise us if you are GST registered.
• Only belong to one agency.  We do not accept people already registered with another agency until they have resigned in writing and you may not register with another agency while registered with us.
• Pay the casting service fee on time (either by regular AP or annually by cheque or credit card).
• Keep us up to date with your address, contact details and availability.  If we can’t contact you urgently you may miss out on an audition.  If you are going to be away, load the away dates in casting notes on CastingKey so that we won’t submit you for roles during that period.
• Keep your profile up to date, including providing new photos regularly (babies every couple of months, children 2-6 monthly, adults annually, or more frequently if there are big changes to your look).
• Turn up to auditions on time and prepared, or let us know as soon as possible if you can’t. 
• Provide us with an IR330 Tax Code Declaration on your first job and annually thereafter as required.
• Keep your bank account details up to date for payments for work to be paid to.
  

We will –

• Attend to your queries promptly and give you advice as required.
• Submit you for every suitable job.
• Give you all the required information for auditions and shoots.
• Negotiate contracts and rates on your behalf.
• Pay you as soon as we’ve received payment from the production company, and provide you with a payslip.  Commission will be deducted, as per below, as well as tax as appropriate.
• Keep you informed through our website  and CastingKey with interesting news and the status of jobs

Contracts:

We will negotiate and sign all contracts on your behalf in consultation with you.  These contracts are binding on all parties.  There will be a contract for every job and you should not sign a contract or release form without talking to us first, so that we can ensure you are getting the best possible deal and that your rights are protected.

Payments and Fees:

The fees you will earn for work done vary from job to job.  The average fees for an extra on a commercial range from $200 - $400 per day; the fee for someone a little more featured than an extra would be between $500 - $5000. We have experienced fees of tens of thousands of dollars and more but these are not a daily occurrence!!  The more on air  exposure, the more the fee will be.

You will be advised of the fee for the shoot on booking.  Please make sure you are clear on what this is to include

No. of hours to be worked (max 12 in any one day) and if overtime applie

Is there travel to set involved and is this included in the shoot day (applies to distances over 25 km from production base)

Are you required to attend a wardrobe call (usually only an hour or so prior to the shoot day)

Are you required to provide your own wardrobe (you usually are)

Is there a makeup artist on set or should you do your own makeup

Is there a weather cover day

At the completion of the entire shoot and once contracts have been finalised, we hand the file to our accounts department. They invoice the client and once they receive payment will forward payment to you.  It is common for payments to take up to 3 months to come through to us, so please be patient – you will be paid.  However we must hold an IR330 Tax Code Declaration form on file for you so if you haven’t completed one prior to the job please call us.  We will also require a bank account number. 

Agents’ commission of 20% will be deducted from any payment along with withholding tax of 20%.as required by the Inland Revenue.

We do not make promises of work but we do promise to do our best for you.