Working Freelance

RATES

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Higher Rate

• I would need to make about 20,000/25,000 pounds per year to cover my expenses and to start adding to my savings.
  This is less than the average yearly salary in the UK for 2019 according to the Guardian.
• I only need about £15000 a year to survive but I must set up rates expecting the risk of going some time between payments. I will most likely work a part time job while establishing myself as an animator. 
• Proposing £35/pHour at first and preparing to be knocked down to my minimum of 20/pHour is a good strategy when discussing rates with clients
•  Day rate would be between £150 - £200
  Average hours worked per day = 6
  £25/£33 per hour.

AGREEMENT TO WORK CONTRACT EXAMPLE

INVOICE EXAMPLE

Cost of Living

I re-calculated my supermarket bill to £1500 (About £28 a week)

Bumping up my total income to: £10,999

Copyright

• The type of copyright I want to use: UK copyright practices
• If I lived outside the UK, it is most likely my work would still be protected under UK copyright laws as it would fall under the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works.
• I will watermark all future work and use a copyright banner on my website
• While copyright is a matter of law, plagiarism is a matter of ethics. To help protect my work from plagiarism and strengthen my copyright, I will sign my work with the date, my name and the copyright symbol. 
• I will add specific contact information on my website concerning requests to use my work. 

• I want to make work under a studio name as there is already a popular author with my name.
  I want to use the word Woozy but it is already trademarked by a Russian company in the UK
• Woozy Studios is not trademarked yet so I will look into that
• In projects were I use collage techniques, I will credit the source of the images to attribute authorship correctly