Resources training is what puts most of these bookings on the calendar in Perth. A supervisor rehearsing a hard conversation before a swing, a safety film shot in a yard, an induction scenario that has to sound like a crib room and not a classroom. You are buying a consulting day with a performance in it, and the briefing decides whether you get value from either.
Perth's pool is genuinely small and part of it disappears onto rosters and tours for weeks at a stretch, so availability here is a fact rather than a bargaining position. Send the written scenario out to several performers on the same afternoon and give yourself a longer run-up than you would allow yourself over east.
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You write the scenario and the actor plays it at your people without blinking, leaning in on anyone who is coasting and backing off for anyone who is honestly out of their depth. Afterwards they come out of character and describe what the conversation was like to be on the receiving end of, which is a training skill rather than a performing one. Find out how many runs a Perth performer will take in a session before you lock the timetable around it.
In blocks of a morning or a whole day, not per hour, since a short session still writes off most of somebody's working day once the Perth drive and the preparation go in. The scenario pack gets read and your industry's language gets learned on their time, and that work is buried inside the figure you are quoted. Hold the rate against the whole day rather than against the minutes of performance and it stops looking odd.
Conferences and product launches at the convention centre book it regularly, usually a performer staying in character across a stand or a foyer for a few hours at a time. What makes it hard is that nothing is scripted: every guest is a fresh improvisation and there are hundreds of them. Send the wardrobe, the running times, somewhere to change, and a warning about the noise, because projecting a character across a busy trade floor all day is as much a voice job as an acting one.
Message everyone plausible on the same day and treat what comes back as your casting round, since a shortlist worked through name by name eats the weeks you do not have here. Somebody can vanish onto a roster or a tour for a month with no warning, so a fast no is still useful information. If most of the job is to camera, look at presenters and MCs too, because the same faces often sit under both headings.
Somebody playing a shift supervisor has to say the acronyms the way your people say them. Post the job titles, the site terms and the abbreviations a week ahead and the character stops sounding like a visitor.
Where the finished footage will be seen changes what the day costs, and an induction module shown internally is not a campaign running publicly. Raise it in your opening email, because renegotiating after the camera is packed away is a bad afternoon for everyone.
A training centre in Kwinana and a studio in Osborne Park sit at opposite ends of a very long city, and a regional site means flights, a bed and a day of travel either side. Put the street address in the enquiry and the quote that comes back will hold.