We've eaten and are now talking. He's shown me the NDA his person has signed to confirm they won't discuss the footage he has to edit. It’s all legit.
“How much do you get? Is it a set amount?” He looks at me.
“I get forty percent - that is after the costs of the studio are taken out, the cost of editing, and everything else.” It might seem like I should get a lot more from the work I do, but when you consider the cost of editing the footage, the workers who shoot it and everything else, it drops.
“I just can't see the math adding up, Alexis. If you consider the fifty I was giving him, you were getting ten percent of it. Now, I'm not sure who he uses, but five thousand is forty percent of about 12.5. I'm good with numbers; that means he's paying out over thirty thousand in editing costs
