From the course: How to Freelance and Get Paid Making Digital Commercials

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Prepping the client

Prepping the client

From the course: How to Freelance and Get Paid Making Digital Commercials

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Prepping the client

- So last lesson, we talked about what equipment to use. And this lesson, we're going to talk about how to prep the client. Now, it's important that once you have the gig and the job, that you need to discuss with the client. You don't want to show up day of the shoot and be like, okay, what are we doing? Or they're asking that. I've been on those shoots before, and it's not very fun. So you need to contact the client in some way, whether it's phone, Skype, or in person, depending on what's comfortable, if you need to see the location beforehand, et cetera, and just really sit down with them and sort of walk them through the process. Now remember, a lot of these people, this is probably their first video they've done. So they're either uncomfortable or unclear on what the expectations are. And you need to set that in place beforehand so that they're not upset later on that you didn't deliver on something or you don't…

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