How to find work as a freelancer
08/31/22 • 17 min
If you’re still early in your video editing career and haven’t built up a network of clients, it can be difficult to find work. So, where are the main places you can find video editing work as a freelancer when you’re starting out?
In this episode you can learn 8 routes to finding work. It’s more effective if you concentrate on one route at a time.
Once you’ve figured out where you are going to look for work, you have to be mindful with how you approach clients if you want them to like and trust you enough to give you the job. If you’d like to know how to contact clients for a higher success rate of receiving jobs, check out the replay of the live Q&A session on ‘How to find freelance work’ (free for Unsplice Pro members).
The live Q&A session linked above is just one session that Unsplice Pro members get access to every week!
Unsplice Pro is your personal video editing mentor and supporting community combined. Members get support with their video editing career progression through:
• Weekly career coaching with live group Q&As
• Monthly immersive creative editing training
• Social events
• A community focus on all things video editing
• A rate assessment on joining to ensure you’re getting paid what you’re worth
Secure your spot in Unsplice Pro before the price doubles!
The first 100 founding members get to say "I was there from the beginning”, and lock in a discounted rate for the duration of their membership.
You can get access to everything except the monthly creative training for only £25 per month.
And you can improve your storytelling and creative editing for only £24 extra per month.
Secure your spot before the price doubles!
https://www.unsplice.com/pro
Thank you for listening!
Shiny
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Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-video-editing-podcast/donations
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If you’re still early in your video editing career and haven’t built up a network of clients, it can be difficult to find work. So, where are the main places you can find video editing work as a freelancer when you’re starting out?
In this episode you can learn 8 routes to finding work. It’s more effective if you concentrate on one route at a time.
Once you’ve figured out where you are going to look for work, you have to be mindful with how you approach clients if you want them to like and trust you enough to give you the job. If you’d like to know how to contact clients for a higher success rate of receiving jobs, check out the replay of the live Q&A session on ‘How to find freelance work’ (free for Unsplice Pro members).
The live Q&A session linked above is just one session that Unsplice Pro members get access to every week!
Unsplice Pro is your personal video editing mentor and supporting community combined. Members get support with their video editing career progression through:
• Weekly career coaching with live group Q&As
• Monthly immersive creative editing training
• Social events
• A community focus on all things video editing
• A rate assessment on joining to ensure you’re getting paid what you’re worth
Secure your spot in Unsplice Pro before the price doubles!
The first 100 founding members get to say "I was there from the beginning”, and lock in a discounted rate for the duration of their membership.
You can get access to everything except the monthly creative training for only £25 per month.
And you can improve your storytelling and creative editing for only £24 extra per month.
Secure your spot before the price doubles!
https://www.unsplice.com/pro
Thank you for listening!
Shiny
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/kem/lazy-love
License code: FNRTIZZZZZ0MH8JM
Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-video-editing-podcast/donations
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Previous Episode
How to impress clients with your portfolio
How can you create a first impression that lasts when you show a potential client your work? Well, you need to make sure that everything the client comes across looks amazing and feels memorable. Listen in to find out how to do that.
Any client is going to take one look at your portfolio and see if you are a good fit for what they want based on what you have on display. You get back what you put out there. So, if you would like to work on more TV commercials but you don’t have any in your portfolio, check out the TV Commercial Masterclass that is happening on August 27th. You’ll learn how to cut a commercial in a professional workflow and you’ll be able to put the commercial on your showreel.
To sign up directly for the TV Commercial Masterclass head to https://superpeer.com/unsplice/event/tv-commercial-masterclass
The TVC Masterclass is a part of Unsplice Pro - your personal video editing mentor and member-only community.
Unsplice Pro is a place for video editors to become better artists, and a place to bring the community together to celebrate our art form and share experiences and work.
This is some of the creative training coming up in Unsplice Pro:
27/08/2022 - TVC Masterclass
24/09/2022 - How to use Premiere without it crashing
29/10/2022 - Creative workflow - Optimum order to build your edit
26/11/2022 - Music editing for maximum impact
17/12/2022 - How to edit faster in Premiere Pro
28/01/2023 - How to tell a good story in documentaries
Secure your spot in Unsplice Pro before the price doubles!
The first 100 founding members get to say "I was there from the beginning”, and lock in a discounted rate for the duration of their membership.
You can get access to everything except the monthly creative training for only £25 per month.
And you can improve your storytelling and creative editing for only £24 extra per month.
Secure your spot before the price doubles!
https://www.unsplice.com/pro
To sign up directly for the TV Commercial Masterclass head to https://superpeer.com/unsplice/event/tv-commercial-masterclass
Thank you for listening!
Shiny
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/kem/lazy-love
License code: FNRTIZZZZZ0MH8JM
Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-video-editing-podcast/donations
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
Next Episode
Which software is the best?
Which software should you learn before you enter the world of professional video editing? That’s the question we’re going to be seeking the answer to in this episode of The Video Editing Podcast from Unsplice.
Each NLE (Non-Linear Video Editor) has its pros and cons, and so you’ll find different pockets of the industry prefer different software. In this episode you’ll learn what software is used where, the pros and cons of each, and which software you should invest your time (and money) learning.
If you’ve ever tried to use Premiere or any other NLE and had it crash in the middle of something important, you’ll know how frustrating it is. Sure, you may have lost maybe 10 mins work as you pick up from the last autosave, but you’ve also lost your flow. As you scroll though Instagram waiting for the software to reload, you’re flow may not come back that day. If you’re interested in learning the kind of professional asset management that large studios use to prevent Premiere and other NLEs from crashing, head to https://superpeer.com/unsplice/event/how-to-use-premiere-without-it-crashing
In just 2 hours you’ll learn how to convert every asset to a ‘working format’ for smooth and efficient editing – a life skill that will save you time and keep you in that super valuable flow-state. The live session happens on September 24th with a Q&A session afterwards.
https://superpeer.com/unsplice/event/how-to-use-premiere-without-it-crashing
Want to know more about Unsplice Pro?
Unsplice Pro is your personal video editing mentor and supporting community combined. Members get support with their video editing career progression through:
• Weekly career coaching with live group Q&As
• Monthly immersive creative editing training (like the one mentioned in this episode)
• Social events
• A community focus on all things video editing
• A rate assessment on joining to ensure you’re getting paid what you’re worth
Secure your spot in Unsplice Pro before the price doubles!
The first 100 founding members get to say "I was there from the beginning”, and lock in a discounted rate for the duration of their membership.
You can get access to everything except the monthly creative training for only £25 per month.
And you can improve your storytelling and creative editing for only £24 extra per month.
Secure your spot before the price doubles!
https://www.unsplice.com/pro
Thank you for listening!
Shiny
Music from Uppbeat (free for Creators!):
https://uppbeat.io/t/kem/lazy-love
License code: FNRTIZZZZZ0MH8JM
Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-video-editing-podcast/donations
Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands
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