Freelance Presentations

Public Liability Insurance

Public liability insurance is about a place having insurance to cover yourself and members of the public that came to the place. For example if you were at a theatre that were doing a show, and there set was in close proxemics to the audience, an example would be in an immersive show where the audience are right in on the action. If a it of set or anything hanging may hit or hurt a member of the public, the public liability insurance would cover the company to pay out for it, say the member of the public sued the company, their insurance would cover it.




Contract Law

Agents

Most budding actors success is down to their agents work, In the first period of working with an agent, its is often hard to get a profit from acting, as most agents take at least 10% of your working takings, some maybe even more.

When looking for a good acting agency it is important to look around as agents should offer you more than just work opportunities, for example

• Providing tips on the best acting classes
• inviting you to networking events
• helping you map out your acting career
• making introductions to useful contacts
• advise on good roles, if they really suit your style or if they think it would be an experience that you could benefit from.
• briefing you on directors, and how they work, for example if they like you to just get on with work or if they prefer to work on a more creative level.

Tax Returns

When working as a freelance actor it is really vital that you keep on top of your tax's as at the end of the tax year, as all off you earnings that you have made, you can lose some of your profit if you dont claim. For example if you were working as a free lance singer and you were travelling around from gig to gig, you would have to pay out for exspences such as: travel, food and drink, clothing for the shows etc. if you kept on top of how much you had spent for this, by keep reciepts, you could then claim all of this back through how much tax you would pay at the end of the tax year. so if you declare what you have spent you can get more profit at the end of your work.


Casting Directors

When being a casting director or an assistant, you are not always entitled work, which means money. If there are no castings going on at the time you will not get any work. Most Casting directors are freelance workers, so they have to find the work themselves. Anyone is available to become a casting director, and its advised that you work your way from a performance career, but its always advised to only go into the trade if you are 100% sure. One piece of advise that is given for anyone in casting, is to buy the contacts book, which is available from waterstones or spotlight.

Unions

They are there to give you support and and advice Tax and Welfare, legal, ply, accident and backstage insurance. workshops and training. Also being part of a union like Equity you also ave a pension set up with them, like a state job, where you pay in a part of you wages into the company and then when you leave you get a pay out pension. With equity you get some money out to their members.

Book Keeping