Job Roles and Working Patterns

Job Roles and Working Patterns

Management

Floor Manager: A floor manager is a member of a crew that makes a TV show. The floor managers job is to receive information from the Director in a contra room, then the Floor Manager goes to the crew on the studio floor and then they go back to the Director.

Production Manager: A Production Manager can be used for TV and Film. For TV they are responsible for all the organisational aspects of production budgeting and scheduling.

Location Manager: A location manager is a member of a film crew. They are responsible for securing and finding any locations that are to be used. for filming. Location Managers are also the face of the production, responsible for addressing any issues that may rise due to the impact on the community.

Creative

Most producers do play a role in the television, film and video industries. All producers oversee each project from conception to completion and may also be involved in the distribution processes and marketing.

Editorial

Editorial jobs are mostly found in an industry called, the print industry, but there are some notable editorial roles in the film and television industry. These jobs will require a person to carefully check over written work such as scripts, reviewing the work that has been produced and give notes or suggestions on how to adapt and improve it and then collected and arranged bits of working together into a final piece.

Technical

The Technical Job role consists on making sure every piece of technology is set up and working perfectly for the production area and around the whole set. They also make sure if the technology of sound is clear for the speakers and microphones, they basically make sure if everything is perfect before they start creating something for TV or Film.

Research

A research job role is for people with an open mind and a search of knowledge. They consist on getting ideas for the industry, develop new theories, picking up good facts and solving with any problems or solving any recent problems.

Financial

People that deal with financial are in financial areas, these areas are;

·        Public Finance (advertisements and more)

·        Any type of business finance

·        Personal 

·        Money you get to pay actors and more

They can also save money in case of, a money risk, time or any other issue. This sort of stuff is called the field of finance.

Organisational

The Organisational job requires people who can make sure everything is in place. They are in charge of organizing people and organizing items such as;

·        If there's acting, the person will organize where the figure or figures stand

·        If it's a film or a TV series, then they will organize the time of the whole video and the time in every scene.

·        They will organize where every person in the crew stands e.g. cameraman, where does the cameraman sit to start filming.

Administrative

The Administrative job role consists on the management or the performance of good business operations. An Administration is defined from

·        Organising people

·        Organising resources

·        Organise important stuff for the film or the TV series

Shift Work

This job requires to know how to tell the time and how to set times for individuals that have a shift in the TV or Film industry. If somebody is working on shift work, they need to be good at racking up numbers of all the shift hours a week.

The Shift Work working pattern is the most common kind of work when it all comes to the TV and film industry. Actors and cameramen will work long shifts, because the actors will act and the cameraman will shoot the scenes. When that is done the editors come in the next day and edit the scene.

Fixed term

A fixed term contract is the term used to describe a contract in which a specific time of work is decided for the employee, and he cannot be made redundant easily until the contract is over. Fixed term contracts in media normally relate back to members of the behind-camera roles - cameramen are normally one of the main jobs who have fixed term contracts, and those contracts end when the film is finished. The same applies to microphone operators and make-up designers - without them, a day of filming would be useless, and so they are contracted to stay attached to their job until it's over. 

Office hours

An office-hours contract basically involves a set amount of time working per day which doesn't really change at all. Fixed term times normally involve the classic '9 till 5' job, in which someone would be to work for the standard 9:00 am until 5:00 pm. Few jobs in the media industry use office hour contracts when it comes to work time - only the researchers and administration can use this work schedule effectively, due to the fact that films are dependent on the script; a cameraman couldn't work from 9 until 5 if he had to shoot a scene specifically at midnight. 

Freelance

Freelance work involves the complete opposite of fixed term and office hours. People that work freelance have no official employer and work for whoever needs work doing - art directors, animators, set designers and most creative aspects of media production can work freelance pretty easily. Working freelance is risky, though - companies can drop freelancers as quickly as they can hire them, due to the fact that they have no obligation to keep them on at all; they're completely subcontracted. Freelance workers also take the risk of few job opportunities - they could be unlucky and not get any work for a month because there aren't any projects on the go at that particular time.

Irregular patterns

Irregular pattern working hours are similar to freelance, but slightly more tied down. This type of work basically requires coming in whenever you're needed instead of whenever you want to do work, so if for example an animator is needed for a part of a film but isn't in, you could be contracted to come in and take his shift. A main benefit of working on an irregular hour pattern contract is that the pay is a lot better than the others - a part of your wage is almost a compensation for disrupting your sleeping patterns. 

Hourly rates

Hourly rates are common when it comes to film and TV production. They pretty much just revolve around paying people by the hour, and is normally only how production companies pay the lower members of staff (i.e. runners, electrocutions, set constructors, caterers). Hourly rates mean that these production companies can also be flexible - if they don't like the work that somebodies doing for them, they can easily replace them with other workers.

Piece work

Piece work is the name given to single one-off pieces of media that the production company will pay for. Each piece could take from an hour to a month completing, depending on what kind of work needs doing; an artist could draw a character design for a production company for less than $100 which would take him a day at maximum, but to produce something like a title sequence for a film would take quite a while and would cost a few thousand. Even custom fonts take about a week to complete, and they cost around $2000. 

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