JOB ROLES

AND WORK

PATTERNS

IN TV & FILM By Josh Bateman

Working patterns

Shift work – you work different

times in the days.

Fixed term – this when you are

contracted to a certain jobs,

with fixed working hours.

Office hours – these are the

hours that are normal used in

offices for example 9am – 5pm.

Freelance – this is when you’re

able to work different places

when you want, which different

working hours.

Irregular patterns – this is

when you work strange hours

usually during the week.

Hourly rates – this is the

amount you are paid each hour.

Piece work – this is when you

are working at a set time for a

specific project e.g. editing for a

music video.

Financial

Executive Producer- work on a fixed

term basis. If you want to be an execu-

tive producer you will have to take re-

posibilities of the product, this mean that

you have to overlook the production

working intail with the other producers,

also you have to make sure that the pro-

duction stays within budget, time sched-

ule and is to the correct standard. On av-

erage executive producers earn around

£70,000.

Organisational

Casting Director – casting directors

work office hours. A casting directors

mainresponsibilties is to organise the ac-

tors, while woring in conjunction with the

producer and director. A casting director

average wage isaround £55,000.

Administrative

Trainee – trainees work shift work. As a

trainee the responsibilities you will be in-

tailing wiould be helping the department

you work for, filing, photcopying, working

in conjunction with roles within the de-

partment. As a trainee you usually don’t

get paid but sometimes you can the av-

erage wage for media trainee is £4.50-

£7.50

Editorial

Script editor – a script editor does piece

work which means they work for a certain

amount of time on a specific project. As a

script writer you will be reporting to the de-

velopment producer, while working with the

executive producers and writers to make

sure the script to up to the standard. The

average wage you would be earning being

a script writer would be around £42,000.

Technical

Set runner – set runners work on an hourly/

daily rate. Some of the things you will be

doings would be; collecting and delivering

equipment, crossing messages between de-

partments, filing, driving vehicles, keeping

sets clean and tidy, making tea and coffee.

A set-runners hourly rate is averagely be-

tween £6.50-£8.80 per hr.

Research

Researcher – researchers work irregular

patterns, while on a freelance contract, the

main responsibilities a researcher has is to

discuss programme and film ideas, check-

ing information sourced from the internet

writing brief for presenters, looking for loca-

tions, keeping detailed records. If you were

to become a researcher you could get paid

around £415 per week if you were a junior

research the more experienced researcher

earn around £650 per week.

Management

Production manager – production

managers usually have irregular work

patterns but they can also have free-

lance contracts. Some of things you

would be doing is; Meet the producer

and senior production staff to examine

scripts or programme ideas, draw up a

production schedule and budget based

on the logistics, timings and estimated

costs, negotiate costs with suppliers,

hire the crew and contractors. If you

were to become a production manager

you would be earning within the region

of £40,000-£60,000.

Creative

Director – a directors working hours are

irregular because they work long hours

and also work on the weekends. Some

of things you would be doing is; meeting

producers, commissioning a script or an

idea for a documentary, interpreting

scripts and developing storyboards, de-

ciding on how the production should

look and where it should be filmed, plan-

ning the shooting schedule and logis-

tics, hiring the cast and crew, guiding

the technical crew, directing the actors,

supervising the editing to produce the

final 'cut'. The average wage for a direc-

tor is between £50,000-£70,000.

Contents

Management……………. 2

Creative…………………..2

Editorial…………………..3

Technical…………………3

Research…………………3

Financial………………… 4

Organisational…………. 4

Administration…………..4

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