Re: FLASH: Dilemma

[Karin Christensen]

There are two things I see here.  You are admittedly new to Flash,

which

means that you may not have a portfolio to show them.  They may

consider

it to be taking a chance to give an advance payment to someone with no

background.

The other side of

the coin is how did they get to be third in the world?  By working

hard and

being paid what they are worth in a normal manner, or by ripping

people off.

You have two avenues.  Accept their deal and get a chance to produce a

portfolio piece which you may or may not get paid for.  Or, don't do

it.


I've illustrated science books for several major publishers.  Some pay

an advance, some do not.

That's part of being a freelancer.

Karin Christensen

Scientific, Medical and Veterinary Illustration

www.cosmoaccess.net/~ivyacres/


> I have a bit of a dilemma that I would like to get some advice

about.

>

> I have the chance to produce a presentation in Flash for a client

who's

> looking to get it done by April 24th. Basically it doesn't sound

like a

> particularly over-the-top hard job per se, but I'm still a bit of a

newbie

> when it comes to Flash - in particular the programming aspects of

it. But I

> figured if nothing else I have a friend who knows Flash real well

and this

> list to act as resources should I run into trouble.

>

> The main problem, however, is that I asked for what I considered a

typical

> freelancing payment deal - a third down up front, another third at

some

> milesone point, and the rest upon completion of the project. This

was

> rejected by the client, and from the best information I have it

seems like

> as if I wouldn't see a dime for my efforts until the project was

completed.

> This is a company who has a service that ranks third in the world

(it

> involves software that bundles e-mail, voice-mail and faxes into one

> integrated accessible area, namely Microsoft Outlook), and I've

visited

> their offices, so they're for real as far as I can tell, and they

have their

> own system set in place to ensure fairness to both sides of a deal

such as

> the one I'm debating entering into.

>

> But I have a wife and three kids (and a cat) and I've been laid off

since

> December and freelancing is a hard business and quite frankly, I

don't think

> I need to settle for not getting something up front so I can feed

these

> people and pay some bills.

>

> What opinion does anyone have here?

>

> -Brian Matthews

> http://www.angelfire.com/fl/sapringer



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