User talk:Miss Mondegreen/Uni filming

numbers don't add up
the numbers on what going where can be found several places and they don't all agree:


 * wildcat


 * daily news article.


 * If you can't access it through accessmylibrary, a copy of the article can be found here


 * education week


 * latimes


 * if you don't have access to the archives a copy can be found here

The wildcat says:

"'The school receives approxi-mately $1,190 every day that companies film on campus, after the District takes 30% of $1700 that the school earns.'"

The daily news article says this:

"'Individual schools that host on-location shooting receive 75 percent of the fee revenue. The remaining 25 percent goes into a fund to benefit schools that do not directly generate film revenues.'"

Education week says:

"'Whenever a production is filmed on school property, 12 percent of the fee goes to the corporation. Of the remaining money, 75 percent goes to the school and 25 percent goes to the district.'"

the latimes article says (via boston globe):

"'About 15 percent of that goes to the development corporation, 65 percent to the school, and 20 percent to the district, to be spread among all campuses at the end of the year.'"

I'm willing to say that the wildcat and daily news are wrong. While the daily news is the only article that mentions the lausd change to hours and cost, it seems fairly clear that they have the basic idea but aren't meantioning the money that goes to the non-profit corp. wildcat writers may not have known---the money gets sent to the district and it's what the school gets back that they were focusing on, but the daily news article did mention the edic, so that doesn't make much sense there.

education week and the latimes are both very precise, include all of the variables and they both should be accurate, but obviously only one can be. the article is using the education week source at the momeny, because I found it first, but I'm really at a loss for what to do here. This seems like it should be mentioned--it's been written about in the school paper, and it's been covered in multiple articles about the school...thoughts anyone? Miss Mondegreen talk  05:31, May 24 2007 (UTC)


 * If you look, the differences are really negligable.


 * At 2500 dollars a day here's the difference:
 * (12% then 75%/25% split)
 * corp:  300
 * school: 1650
 * distrct: 550
 * (15%/65%/20%)
 * corp:  375
 * school: 1625
 * distrct: 500
 * It's a difference of 75/25/50 dollars in the respect sections, so the difference between the two sources seems really minimal. I switched to using the latimes source because it's a more known source, possibly more reliable and also, it's simply easier to follow a three way division than it is a a gets portion and b and c divide what remains.  Miss Mondegreen  talk  21:20, May 24 2007 (UTC)


 * New source:

BURBANK GIVES NEW MEANING TO `FILM SCHOOL'

if you can't view a pdf, text version is available here

"'The LAUSD charges $2,500 for a 15-hour shoot. FilmL.A. gets 16 percent of the gross proceeds, officials said.'"

This is much closer to the latimes article, which is what I'm sticking with at the moment. Miss Mondegreen talk  23:34, May 24 2007 (UTC)

need source for money division after new contrat
I think that the Burbank source is the most accurate source we have, as it's the only source we have on money divisions after FilmL.A. signed a new contract with the LAUSD. Unfortunately it has only one of the three numbers needed, so I haven't replaced the latimes source yet---after all, I'm only going on a hunch that the latimes one is outdated. I'll keep looking. Miss Mondegreen talk  02:22, May 25 2007 (UTC)

found source for current contract
I found a source for the current contract that definitely states that FilmL.A. gets 15% of the money (I put a quote in the article). We also now have a lot more sources, many written from around the time of the contract and it's pretty clear that the school and the district divide the money, the way they always have (the percentages might have changed slightly, I don't know), except that they're dividing up what's left after the fee that FilmL.A. takes. That and there was a district hike in what they charged the schools...

Anyway this seems very accurate now. Miss Mondegreen talk  09:43, May 25 2007 (UTC)