LO2 The job roles in the television and film industries

Task 2

To know about the job roles in the television and film industries

Job roles:

Management

Within the television and film industry management is a group of people who get together to complete what they have to. A good manager will need to use all the things they have. The management team do not decide what happens on the set. The producer and the director will decide what will happen on the set and everywhere else. Other things also come under management, such as, organizational and financial. In management, there are a lot of different job roles, for example, catering, transport manager, producer and also the location manager.

Creative

Within the creation industry, they will help out with the sets, make the film accurate for audience who the film Is suitable for. For different types of films, they will make it interesting by using the correct make up and costumes. The job roles are: make up designer, prop master best boy, costume designer and others.

Editorial

Editing is a really important thing in the film industry. They will need to prepare for written, visual and film which is used to take important information through organization.  The job roles are: assistant editor, title designer and post production supervisor.

Technical

Within technical, this will include that they make sure everything is working properly for example, they will need to check if the lights work and the camera, if they don’t then they will need to get them fixed or get new ones. This is an very important role because without them nothing on the set will be right and they won’t be able to film properly.

Research

Researchers within the media industry will need to solve problems, investigate and develop new ideas. The main purpose is to develop and discover ways for the progress of the human information. The different job roles are: location manager, transport manager and the casting crew.

Financial

People that are dealing with the finance will need to save money and will lead money. Finance will also need to deal with money, risk and then they will need to know how they are connected. They will also need to know how they would want to spend that money and will need to spend it properly. Within finance, there are other job role, for example, production accounting, sales agent and others.

Organisational

The organizational jobs will want to have people that will know how to manage people in a group, make sure that everything goes right and that in the group no one makes a mistake. They will need to make sure that everyone knows what they have to do. There are different job roles such as, unit manager, location manager, transport manager and others.

Administrative

Administration involves the management of the business to make big decisions. Administration will need to organize people with in the film production. If they do this, then this will mean that everything is going to plan and that they accomplish their goals. There are different job roles such as: casting, location manager and transport manager.

Working patterns

Film and the Television industry are prepared with of a lot of different working patterns. The working patterns within media industry are: Shift work

fixed team, office hours, freelance, irregular patterns, hourly rates, piece work. Shift work will mean that people will need to work for longer hours of day so they know that their job is done for 24 hours. You can work in the morning till afternoon. Some people would like to work at night, which is irregular patterns.  An employment will have the start and finish dates, It expire as soon as they complete the work, this is piece work. Fixed term means that you will have a contract with the organization only for a maternity leave.

The freelance workers are normally self-employed and they work for different companies. 59% of the freelance workers are men because they have more energy to work from one company to another. They do not work for a long time and their income is not fixed. Office hour is when people will work one company. Also you do not get paid if you do office hours. If they work properly and have enough experience, then it might mean that they will get a job.  There are people who get paid for the hours they work and that is hourly rates.