When you are starting out you often have to build your portfolio from scratch; creating own ‘spec’ adverts or short films and doing plenty of gigs for free or as favours for friends...
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Tips for Successful Freelancing
AEtutsplus.com has 10 tips on becoming a successful freelancer, my favourite if you’re just starting out is the idea of writing in depth proposals to describe what your imagination can reach...
Advice from an ad-man: Leo Burnett animated…
Advice for advertising executives… 3 minutes for golden advice for any creative…
Invest in your creative career – The Importance of Ergonomics
Ergonomics for Creatives – a Life Long Career Investment My brother is an animator and pointed me to this great video on the importance of ergonomics in ensuring you’ll still be...
12 Freelance Business Best Practice Tips for Creatives
Here are some basic freelance business tips to help keep your creative projects on track, on budget and to keep you in your clients good-books! Improving your business workflow with these simple...
Pay Me.
Another excellent and candid talk from the San Francisco Creative Mornings outfit. Mike Monterio shares his insights on making sure you get paid. Essentially he talks about ‘lawyering up’...
How to negotiate
Listening to this entertaining and insightful talk by Owen Darbishire, from the University of Oxford’s Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation will help you make more money. Or ast least...
How to make your showreel great…
Make it like my friend Neil Edwards, who is the best editor I know and has a brilliant showreel for his shooting skills. This showreel is not only the funniest one I’ve seen but a great sales...
Online Distribution Vs The Festival Circuit
Promote Your Film Online – Not at Festivals The mighty folk from shortoftheweek describe how they promoted their excellent animated opus online – and how that compared with their festival...
11 things to think about in 2011
Found this interesting site earlier this year and came back to look at this post again… stimulating stuff. Attentionomics – Marketers begin to realize the value of attention and not just reach...
The new big thing for indie filmmaking
This is incredible. Like every other player you’ve seen on the internet but hooked up to pay-pal. Dynamo take care of the transaction process (pay-pal and amazon), the hosting and bandwidth...
Building a business
Being freelance is the best thing in the world. You’ve got time flexibility, brand new projects all the time, networking and working with all kinds of different people and problems. But after...