What Do Sales Agents Do, Exactly?

Sola Media - Sales Agents with a focus on animation

Any animator with dreams to bring their own project to the big screen will eventually need to understand the business of making and financing animated films. This includes the question of who, exactly, is going to sell your film for you. Are you going to do it yourself? Or are you going to bring in experts who know the business? Probably, you will do the latter. As part of our series on the business of animation, we take a look at what exactly a sales agent is and what they do.

How do you start a small animation business?

Our new animation collaboration at Bucks

One of the most common questions asked by prospective students at our university open days is "how many of your graduates find work in the industry?". After all, it's all very well to train animators and digital artists to do excellent work, it's quite another to turn that knowledge into a successful career.

In media production of any kind, jobs for life are nowadays almost non-existent. Even highly successful artists tend to be freelancers of one kind or another. But there is another way of dealing with the perpetual uncertainty of finding paid work in the arts - and that is to start your own business. So how, exactly, might you go about doing that?

Tonight! Bucks Enterprise Creative Talent Showcase - Thursday 6th March at 6.30pm

Calling all animators - don't forget to come along tonight on Thursday 6th March to support your fellow student Ben Gray in the Bucks Enterprise Creative Talent Showcase. Ben's game Moonbeam was shortlisted for the Talent Showcase back in February, facing off stiff competition from undergraduates all across the University, Ben was competing with students from other creative disciplines such as product design, dance performance, stand up comedy, fashion, art fixtures and film-making.

The Student Market at Bucks - a free chance to make some extra cash!

Sign up now for the Student Market! This is a chance for students to get a free market stall and sell some stuff! Supported by Enterprise at Bucks, the stalls will be set up in Wycombe and you can sell pretty much anything you fancy. Apart from being fun, it's a chance to earn some money, build business skills, learn sales strategies, and polish your CV.