From the course: Freelance Work Strategies for Video and Motion Graphics Creators

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Schedules and budgets

Schedules and budgets

- As video creatives, none of us loves budgeting. That is definitely not why we got into this creative work, right? So I'm just gonna touch on a few tips to try to make this a little less painful of a process. When you're putting together a budget, first you wanna think about, is this budget tied to a specific concept or a specific timeframe, a specific look that the client wants? That's the first framework you really have to start thinking about. You obviously have to speak to the client and know, do they want a fixed price? Are they paying you on a day rate? Maybe it's a time and material situation or maybe they're looking to you to come up with something. So we'll talk about those options. You wanna be sure that you calculate your variable costs, those things that are gonna rise and fall because of this explicit project. Maybe you have to buy certain plugins, buy certain equipment, do certain things, travel, whatever it is, so that's gonna be variable related to just this project…

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