Thursday, December 16, 2010

PAYROLL OR PAYROLLING. WHAT DO THEY MEAN IN ENTERTAINMENT

PAYROLL/LABOR in the ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY is what? When you call that labor company in some town in the USA, are you calling a PAYROLL COMPANY or a LABOR COMPANY. What is the difference? Payroll is the sum of all financial records of salaries for an employee, wages, bonuses and deductions. A LABOR COMPANY may do payroll, but has the labor you are looking to use and may use a payroll company.
Payroll Company responsibility is making sure the deductions are on the paychecks. Most companies outsource their payroll service. When looking for a payroll service, you will pay around 2 to 3 percent of total payroll costs. If you are a large company, you might even get that outsourced payroll service for 1 percent.

There are many entertainment payroll companies that you can outsource your payroll service to. Cast and Crew, Entertainment Partners and Caps Universal are several names that come to mind. At the end of the day, it is a cheap way of having your payroll done.

You, the company has the contracts with the labor union or organization, you make the call, you deal with the labor, you supply all the safety gear, you fill out all the labor time sheets, you add the hours, pay rates and send to the payroll service total hours and rates per person per day for a week total, you have a person whose sole job is dealing with payroll paperwork. The payroll company added  federal and state taxes to your numbers and send back the total cost for that weeks labor with a 1 to 3 percent markup for each worker.

Now you have all this information, what happens next? You agree to the total payroll cost for that weeks employees payroll and send money to the payroll company. Some payroll companies have the ability to withdraw total payroll costs from your bank account. This is done in two steps. First step is hourly payroll. Second step is all taxes and deductions that are sent to the government.

If you don't have the money in the bank to give the payroll company, the employees don't get paid. The employees are yours, the problems with the employees are yours. Don't hand the employees a paycheck for services rendered as you may have a problem, not the payroll company. The responsibility of the payroll company is to make sure the taxes and deductions are right and paid to the government. If you don't pay the payroll service, they have no responsibility to you or the employees. This is how they charge that 1 to 3 percent.

Doing non-union payroll takes very little time when processing payroll.  Start adding union benefits, benefits in general and the cost starts to increase unless you are giving that payroll company $100,000.00  plus worth of payroll each week. Your hired payroll processing employee does all the work and the payroll company cuts payroll checks. If you have done the payroll wrong and need that paycheck for that employee, that is an extra cost to cut payroll checks out of order. WE AT IN-HOUSE PRODUCTION CAN BE THAT PAYROLL COMPANY, OR ADD A TWIST AND KEEP YOU FROM HIRING THAT PERSON TO PROCESS PAYROLL.

What is a PAYROLLING/LABOR COMPANY?  Look for the next story to come.

Friday, December 10, 2010

CORPUS CHRISTI WORKING WITH IATSE LOCAL 604




RIGGING GEAR
FRONT OFFICE DOOR
      "WOW"                    PHOTOS OF LABOR IN CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS. When was the last time you had your event heading to Texas, and needed and wanted QUALITY AND TALENTED LABOR for your EVENT, NO BABYSITTING NEEDED. IN-HOUSE PRODUCTION IN CORPUS CHRISTI LABOR FOR YOUR EVENT. From our office where we dispatch that skilled labor, to working in the shop and un-loading trucks. If you have ever had the pleasure of working in Corpus Christi, you may recognize the crews in the photos. The photos below are CORPUS CHRISTI STAGEHANDS WORK WITH THE TEXAS THESPIANS. WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE PERFORMANCE OF THE NUTCRACKER AT THE SELEAN AUDITORIUM. What a good time it was having union members working together, and training the THEATRE STUDENTS.
NUTCRACKER 2010
SELENA AUDITORIUM

RAGS FOR NUTCRACKER 2010









In-House Production, IATSE Local 604 working together to bring training to all those that have an act to learn as well as giving the community some great events. HAPPY HOLIDAYS FOR 2010 AND A GREAT NEW YEARS FOR 2011.



Saturday, December 4, 2010

LABOR AND RENTAL GEAR IN CORPUS CHRISTI

Not only will IN-HOUSE PRODUCTION'S OFFICE IN CORPUS CHRISTI, TEXAS be able to supply all your LABOR NEEDS for your event, it will now have rental gear for your event. We will have in stock, at our warehouse ready for rent:
  • 1 TON CM CHAIN MOTORS / 60' AND 75' CHAIN WITH MOTOR BOXES
  • 8WAY CONTROLLERS
  • RIGGING HARDWARE
    • STEEL AIRCRAFT CABLE - 5' - 10' - 20' 3/8 STEEL CABLE
    • 5/8" SHACKLES
    • GAC FLEX 3' AND 6' (steel spansets)
    • 12' x 12' x 10' SILVER ALUMINUM STAGE TRUSS
    • 12' X 12' 6WAY CORNER BLOCKS
    • 30" X 30" ALUMINUM BASE PLATES
    • SWIVEL COUPLERS
  • PIPE AND DRAPE WITH BLACK DRAPE
  • WIRELESS MICROPHONES (SHURE)
  • QUALIFIED STAGEHAND LABOR FROM IATSE LOCAL 604 
When you need STAGEHAND LABOR or RENTAL GEAR. GIVE KELLY WHITLOCK A CALL AT 361-334-3974

BLIZZCON 2010

 Back in October  of 2010, In-House Production, with Production Associates LLC. and the help of IATSE Local 504 of Anaheim California, helped to create one large work force of STAGEHAND LABOR for ONE LARGE EVENT. This was an EVENT that took over the Anaheim Convention Center. THIS WAS AN EVENT OF THE YEAR. This was done with STAGEHANDS taking care of FREIGHT to LIGHTING, AUDIO, VIDEO STAGING AND RIGGING.This event took Hall A, Hall B, Hall C, Hall D and some break-out rooms. What an event. Over 200 PLUS STAGEHANDS working everyday from Truck Loaders, Audio Technician, Video Technician, Fork Operators for the total install. We even took care of the cleaning the halls at the end of this event. ALL PRODUCTION RIGGERS used on the BlizzCon Event were ETCP CERTIFIED. With over 400 Chain Motors hanging holding up over 7000 feet of Truss, Projector and Video Screens hanging over all the 4 halls as well as Speaker Clusters hanging everywhere. There was more Staging, Video and Audio used for this 2 DAY EVENT then in a long time. BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT IS THE COMPANY. Michael Thuney, President of PRODUCTION ASSOCIATES LLC is the person. If you need that Production person that is needed for that not quite a CONVENTION  or  STAGE SHOW, he is the guy. In-House Production on this job had NO injuries, damages that could have added to the install or strike. The Crews worked Great, the Production Teams worked Great, I it was by far a GREAT EVENT. The event was a BIG SUCCESS FOR ALL. THANK YOU MICHAEL THUNEY AND BLIZZCON.

CUSTOM NODES AND FLOOR COVER PLATES

 In-House Production was asked to come up with a system that could be added into the concrete floor with a lift out of over 2000lb of force. The idea was to be able to use for guides and bolt down to the floor anything one could imaging. Three things had to be part of the design.
(1). It had to not rust. Being mounted into the floor, water and cleaning fluid will become part of its dayly life.  (2). It had to be flush to the floor when not in use. This could not be a trip hazard as the Ballroom is used for a number of events. (3). It had to have the center screw able to screw-out. Custom screw plugs can be built for those custom events that requires that different look. This node has a 5/8" threaded hole to except eye bolts. The Node were engineered to meet any city requirment and inspection after being installed. Great Idea with a custom look for that special ballroom floor. 

After driving a scissor lift over and bending the FLOOR POCKET COVERS and not having the water and elect covers not matching with the custom nodes that have been power coaded, something had to be done with the floor pockets. As wit the Nodes, We cam up with custom built FLOOR POCKETS
 WITH HINGED DOORS. We built them from 3/8" plate and added sides to the doors so they coulld not cave in. Painted the same color as the nodes to match the floor as the nodes do, it came out to look as the floor did. We at In-House Production DESIGNED, HAD BUILT AND INSTALLED BOTH THE CUSTOM NODES AND CUSTOM FLOOR PLATE COVERS. For more information on the nodes or floor cover plates, give us a  call at 702-631-4748