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Freelancing in the Creative Industries

Author: Rossignol Karen Le and Claire Rosslyn Wilson  

ISBN / EAN: 9780195598261
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Traces the journey of arts freelancers wanting to successfully incorporate business skills with a creative arts practice in visual arts, media and graphic design, dance, drama, writing, photography, animation and film

Freelancing in the Creative Industries is designed to guide students through the process of establishing their creative arts freelance practice. The aim of the book is to train adaptable freelancers who are able to think strategically in an ever-changing arts sector.

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What are the most challenging aspects of freelancing in the creative Industries? Freelancing requires a breadth of skills across managing projects and timelines, having the space and energy to maintain a creative practice and knowing how to get work into the marketplace.Freelancing in the Creative Industries is a reference that will guide you through your journey as an emerging freelancer in the arts. With an emphasis on creative thinking and problem solving through diverse case studies, this book will help you to become an adaptable freelancer who is able to think strategically in an ever-changing arts sector. It encourages emerging freelance practitioners to open their minds to diverse ways of practicing, such as exploring cross-disciplinary practices or developing creative online marketing strategies. And although it has a strong focus on freelancing skills across creative arts areas, it also takes examples and references from various sectors including: visual arts, writing, performing arts, music, new media arts and cross-disciplinary arts. Key Features Build up a freelance portfolio with reflective learning activities in each chapter. These activities help apply the content of the chapters to individual practice. They accumulate throughout the book so that by the end emerging or student creative artists will have a portfolio that is directly related to their field of practice.Case studies of creative freelancers focus on the core practice/business skills. This helps guide the learning through concrete examples of how others have shaped their career and solved problems, illustrating how readers can adapt ideas to their own practices.Includes examples from a range of industries. By focusing on core skills (effective communication tools, networking, project management), it is possible to draw from a range of industries with application to any creative freelancer.Each chapter lists further tools that can assist freelancers.

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About the Author

Karen Le Rossignol – Senior Lecturer, School of Communication & Creative Arts, Deakin University Claire Wilson – Freelance arts practitioner in the areas of fiction/nonfiction, dance and poetry, with experience as a writer, arts administrator and researcher 

Case study profiles:Isobel Knowles - artist and animatorAimee Smith - choreographer and dance artist Benjamin Law - journalist, columnist and screenwriterClare Poppi - artist with a practice in jewellery and metalsmithingDavid Finnigan - all areas of theatre as writer, performer, director, producer and designerTimothy Syrota - writer, photographer and filmmakerZoe Pepper - interdisciplinary artist (theatre, live art, film and participatory gaming)Jonathan Wilson - musician, artist and cultural producer

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This textbook will provide a one-stop-shop of all you will need to know as an emerging freelancer in the arts. However, its emphasis on creative thinking and problem solving through diverse case studies ensures that it is more than just a manual on processes. The aim of this book is to train adaptable freelancers who are able to think strategically in an ever-changing arts sector. It places the Australian arts sector in the Asia-Pacific region and encourages emerging freelance practitioners to open their minds to diverse ways of practicing, such as exploring cross-disciplinary practices or developing creative online marketing strategies.

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Product Details

Publisher
Oxford University Press ANZ
Published
20th November 2015
Pages
304
ISBN
9780195598261

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ISBN / EAN: 9780195598261
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