Professional Identity
Claire Golby
Work Plan
LO1: Critically reflect and evaluate on your creative practise, and that of others, as a key element of professinal planning and as a springboard for the further ideas and creative makeup practise.
LO2: Prepare and organise your portfolio of work/attributes and skills effectively and prepare personal promotional materials to a professional standard.
LO3: Exercise initiative and personal responsibility in developing strategies for the professional targeting of work, self-management for future progression to employment or postgraduate study.
Project Proposal
To help reflect on my creative development I will examine and critique my past work I have completed over the past 3 years within and outside of the course, which will also help influence my future creative decision making. Moreover I shall reflect on how my work ethic and creativity has progressed, which will culminate in my explanation of why I have decided to choose the prosthetics named award in my critical report.
I shall research and create business cards, a website, showreel, CV and a physical (as well as online) portfolio curtailed to my plans of entering the industry. In preparation for this I shall research other professional's forms of self-promotion to create appropriate layouts and methods for myself. I will ensure my work is specific to the prosthetics industry, selecting images of my work that best represent this. Furthermore, I will explore the different methods of presenting my work, such as digital versus a physical portfolio. I shall also explore self-promotion through online sites such as instagram and facebook and how professionals utilise these tools. In level 5 I had no promotional material, which I think was appropriate given that I wasn't qualified or confident in my limited abilites. I made business cards after level 6, but had not researched them prior, so will need analysing and re-doing, considering elements like typface and text which I previously gave little thought to.
Although I plan on pursuing a career in prosthetics as much as possible, if I am not working or have time in between prosthetic jobs, I would like to fill that time by working on fashion shoots or doing bridal work, which would also be a good decision for me economically. As I have some experience on fashion and beauty shoots, I may compile a seperate portfolio for my fashion and beauty work to help me attain work in this industry.
As I have previously contacted companies, I will re-contact companies that I have sent letters and emails to previously with regards to work experience/employmeny after graduation. Towards the end of level 6, I created a makeup artist facebook page and also started an instagram account for self-promotion through social media, though I don't know if i'd asses them as professional enough, so I may need to research, evaluate and re-design these. These must also be updated regularly to be effective which I will refer to in my professional development plan, as well as when I plan to communicate with companies. I will also analyse the forms of communication I will be using to contact companies, as I have tried some in the past.
Sources:
Johnson, K. (2014) The Mercenary Makeup Artist: Breaking into the Business with Style. United States: Createspace
Timetable
Key:
Investigative Study
Specialist Practise
PPP
Major Project
I have tried to evenly distribute my time allocated to each project and vary them so that I don't become too focused on one project at any given time.
I have distributed the time I work on the projects according to the guideline times to spend on each project.
The total times I am spending on each project (not including scheduled lessons) are:
Investigative Study: 165 hours
Specialist Practise: 165 hours
PPP - 50 hours
This is until Investigative Study hand-in. I may need to spend less time on Specialist Practise, as we have much more time scheduled in for that unit already.
January 10th
I have found that I work well under the influece of a time plan. I balanced my work well until christmas, and so I've carried on my timeplan in the same manner for the remainder of university, until hand-in.
I will need to do the majority of my project for PI before the presentations so that I have all of my promotional materials ready. In order to have them ready I will need to have done substantial research to inform my decisions. After the presentations I can write up my feedback and review the interview and then I should have little left to do. This means I can focus the majority of my remaining time on Major Project.
I don't plan on going home for Easter, so I plan on working in a similar manner throughout these two weeks.
Tax Lecture
Laptop will hook up to TV to show website
Think about physical things to bring in (punched eyebrows, moulds,)
Dress professionally
Say what kind of job you'll be wanting but doesn't have to be too specific. (Doesn't have to be specific company. Can just say workshop assistant) Research big people in workshops and what they are currently working on. Have u already had experience and applied to other places.
Critical reflection is on the presentation. 1500. Use feedback sheets to help with evaluation
Talk for 10mins. SHOW SHOWREEL
Print CVs
Talk about problems you faced and how you overcame them. Critical evaluation skills.
CVs
Structure on paper is right
Experience isn't paid
Studio move!!! On employment
Short courses under education
Invoice:
Bank details
Address
Reference number (which they might give you) or you might have yourself. Choose a number, 57 or 112. Doesn't matter as long as you carry on chronologically. Don't want to advertise yourself as too new to company. This is for book keeping purposes and tracking. Might add the companies reference number aswell.
Date you are sending the invoice
Dates that you did the job yore getting paid for. "Makeup artist services name of production at £100 per day" then you have the full amount in the totals column. You will have had a meeting with the production team where this amount will be discussed. Don't let anything get missed during this meeting, such as transport costs. Discuss how long their "day" is. Can be 8-12 hours so find out. You can also be bought out for a week or so many days. This should be agreed in writing or an email. "To confirm, i will be working this day and be paid X amount". In law, if they don't reply then that are paying you that much. If they don't agree then they'll reply.
Can be paid mileage like 40p per mile. AA route planner will tell you exactly how many miles it is. Travel expenses so much per mile for so many miles...... Subsistence: overnight accomodation, any food etc
Name (usually production manager or accountant) and their address.
Kit money might be paid as a one off fee or pay so much per day. Write that separately on the invoice as kit money.
Quite often there is a 4 week turnaround for payment. At the bottom of invoice put "terms: to be paid within 28 days"
Can also put: "receipts attached" for re-imbursement. So you have totals down right hand side: travel, fee, subsistence, reimbursement.... Total
You will need your passport for meetings and companies. You won't be able to work without it
PUT ON PI THE INVOICE YOU SENT BEFORE and one for cactus film
Book-keeper writes in figures
An accountant tells you why you can and can't claim for
Incoming: is money on the invoice
Outgoing:
Date, supplier in first columns. Even a pack of paper clips. Tesco is your supplier. Once you are self employed there is a lot you can claim for, like an alarm. If you can justify why something is needed to run your business, no one can say otherwise except the tax man who will want to go through your books of there is something dodgy going on. If the film is "away from home" (which used to be more than 10miles) then food is covered.
EXCEL SHEET IS OUTGOINGS. Invoice is incomings
Once you are being taxed as a self employed person you need to keep track of everything and all receipts.
Once a month to sort everything out.
Accountant to do tax return and give that to them to send to inland revenue.
Can claim on some of you phone bill, like if 50% is business. Keep receipt and mark that you've claimed 50% and then you'd put this amount in the gross column so half would be claimed for. It's very rare to get questioned about this.... CLAIM FOR YOUR CAR
Reference is the receipt of invoice on the eexcel.
One point a year when you pay al your taxes in January. (Carolyne just gets an accountant before paying taxes in January to make sure they're in order).
VAT registration - you used to have to make £60,000 PROFIT (which is what you have left after everything is paid back) before you register for VAT. This means you have to add your VAT number at the bottom of an invoice.
In January you also have to pay student loan back as well as tax when you're earning more than £21,000.
You will make your own heading for excel sheet: fuel, motor maintenance (car service) and insurance (say mobile hairdresser instead of media makeup!! Or you will classed as higher risk), travel and motor sundries (train/bus), post print and stationary, put meals on invoice and outgoings, consumables (cleanser, toner, cleaners), Internet, legal bills or soliciter or accountancy bills, subscriptions for makeup websites or MUA magazine, repairs and renewals (repair laptop or lightbulb...), bank account (once it's no longer a student account you get charged for it),
FOR THE INCOMINGS (INVOICE DETAILS JUST ON AN EXCEL CHART) WHICH IS OPPOSITE:
Company, date, reference number, fee (what they're paying you), expenses (kit, food, travel.....), date paid (even if you just put a tick in the box. Put if it's not full amount... Go and alter later).
as soon as you've had your first job where they haven't taken tax from you then you register as self employmed
Paye is where tax doesn't go through you, it's automatic
