Creative Business
Creative work is easier to sell when the numbers are clear: a day rate that covers your costs, a licence fee that reflects usage, a studio that earns back its equipment. These courses help photographers, filmmakers, musicians, designers and interior designers build those numbers in a spreadsheet, with every step checked.
The 6 courses cover photo and video shoot estimates and licensing, studio gear and team utilisation, video production specs and storage, music production maths from tempo to loudness, print production from resolution to imposition, and interior space planning with clearances and budgets.
Creative BusinessBuild the full estimate for a fictional commercial shoot: recce, prep and shoot days, crew overtime, kit and studio hire, marked-up expenses, usage licences by media, territory and term, post-production hours, a top sheet with margin and the final invoice after the wrap, with every cell checked as you go.
Creative BusinessRun the numbers of a fictional design and video studio: a gear register with depreciation and a replacement fund, buy-or-rent break-even, an internal kit fee, fully loaded cost rates, weekly team capacity, project and retainer profitability and a break-even dashboard, with every cell checked as you go.
Creative BusinessConvert timecode, size cards and drives from bitrates, reframe for every aspect ratio and hit delivery specs, with every cell checked as you go.
Creative BusinessTurn BPM into delay times, notes into frequencies and decibels into gain changes, with every cell checked as you go.
Creative BusinessPrepare print-ready files and quotes for a fictional design studio: PPI checks, bleed sizes, items per press sheet, paper weights and postage, booklet page counts and spine widths, type scales, layout grids and a digital-vs-offset break-even, with every cell checked as you go.
Creative BusinessPlan a room that fits for a fictional client: floor areas and free space, furniture clearances and viewing distance, rug and art sizes, curtain fabric, wallpaper rolls, a kitchen work triangle and a room budget with delivery dates, with every cell checked as you go.
Yes. The shoot-estimate and studio courses focus on rates, costs and margins for independent creatives.
No. All calculations happen in the browser spreadsheet. The results apply to whatever software you use.
Each course is a single purchase of $9.99. That covers every lesson and lab, the final exam and the certificate, with no subscription and nothing that renews.
Start with the recommended course and build your first result in the lab today.
