Tims great lesson taught me the importance of see below

Today was about understanding the importance of specifying the parameters of your briefs and proposals within the industry, knowing what is expected of you by the client is extremely important and if a deadline is not met how crushing this could be to your name and status within the competition of professionals in the media industry. As an amateur student it is important to know that professional work to come in the future will not be so forgiving, the industry has a standard and if you don’t meet it, well, you are not in the industry. This is why it is so important to put all your effort into your work even if it isn’t working as a professional. Be happy to work for free as long as it isn’t taking any money off of you then it is good experience at the end of the day, getting your name out there for more customers eventually referring you as a professional. If you are able to except the work on offer but you don’t believe you are able to match the standards expected of you, get in a professional to do the work for you showing you the ropes so you know how he or she went about completing the work, just give all the money and profits that would have otherwise gone to you, you don’t want to be taking work from professionals when you are doing a terrible job at their work. The basis of the average contractual agreement within the media industry establishes the product being promoted, the audience the product to be created is intended for and the specified budget for the product. As a student  or an amateur it is important to understand that you have no real rights in the market and you don’t control the game, do not go taking professionals work away, if it’s a market you want to be considered in or work in don’t go screwing it up. As a real professional doing freelance work you are free to specify your own hourly rate defining it on how qualified you really are, the hourly rate can be £30 to £90 and so on, sounds Ludacris but if your good enough you are good enough. The different demographics that come into the defining of media products audiences are: culture, age, sex and sexuality and the different grades in social grading ranging from A-E.

Thank you and babye!