Management
Production Managers run productions for the Producer and the Line Producer. They help to determine the most efficient and economic way to schedule shoots,also to negotiate business deals for crews, locations and technical equipment, and make day-to-day production decisions. They have to be excellent communicators and prepared to work very long hours, and also be able to react calmly under intense pressure. The job is usually quite challenging but well paid, usually on a freelance basis. To gain a job in this sector you must have a lot of experience in the industry.
Creative
Some examples of creative roles would be directors, script writes and casting directors. These jobs are mostly dedicated to making the film accurate and realistic for the audience, in horror films for example these people are very important as make-up managers would be included as a creative job roll. Directors work for very long intensive hours as they control lots of aspects of production and are involved in all of the film. There are several director roles in every production, there is the Film director, Assistant director and second assistant director.
Editorial
Editorial jobs in the television and media industries mostly include you having to edit and produce productions and publish content, these editorial jobs vastly range throughout industries as they are needed in jobs such as Newspapers, online news and many other productions. When in an editorial job you often work from offices and at home and are expected to wok to deadlines like technical jobs sometimes for journalists and other colleagues, you often co-operate with other groups of people, often research teams.
The average salary for somebody with an editorial job is around £25,000 and have entry requirements of a Higher National Diploma.
Technical
Some examples of technical roles in Television and films would be such jobs like sound editors, Foley sound editors, Camera men and really just any technical roles that require techniques as such. These roles would often require you to create products, like certain shots or sounds that would have to produce to the employers specifications, they would often be working on set of a production and co-operating with directors.
The wage for these kinds of jobs start around £23,000 and could go up to £40,000 with working hours typically 9-5 and could be more as deadlines are sometimes set so extra hours would be needed.
Research
Research job roles include Location, cast, audience and production research. These jobs often work along side other jobs in the same industry, an example of this would be people in financial jobs within the industry. Research would often be done in pre production.There are several different types of research that would be requested, quantitative and qualitative, and primary and secondary. People with these jobs would first work for minimal payment or for free before getting a full time job. Freelance and short term contracts are often used for payment.
Financial
Jobs within this sector would include, accountants or financial management, the wages can vary depending on previous experience, they can go up to 38-45,000 pro rata. These jobs would work along side most of the other roles within the industry, for example some of these jobs would work along side organisational job roles. These roles would require you to constantly watch over the funding of the production, you would be payed per contract.
Organisational
Directors are the head of all roles in the film industry. They decide what happens in the film or programme. Sometimes they are assigned a script to follow but they can sometimes write their own which they can change freely. Directors are paid an annual sum of £70,000 on average. Some well known directors are, Steven Spielberg, Ridley Scott and Christopher Nolan.
Producers are also in charge of a lot of job roles, as you can see in the image below. The producers and directors are often involved in most if not all of the jobs under them in the hierarchy. As directors such as Quentin Tarantino do, directors that are involved in every aspect of a production are known as auteurs.
Admin
Administration roles include such jobs as Marketing managers. These jobs would include having to constantly monitoring the market for any trends, exploring ways of improving existing products and also identifying productions that have been successful. Jobs within this sector would regularly work with researchers on a regular basis, they would mostly work from an office or at home for on average 37 hours a week. The average salary for an administration job is £25-30,000. These jobs often require training, and the qualifications needed for these jobs are usually a higher national diploma, or a degree.
Working patterns:
Shift work
This is where someone would be given a select shift- time period to work in. These shifts are divided up into day, and night shifts. Some Jobs within the media industry that are based on shift work would be mostly administration jobs.
Fixed Term:
Fixed term working patterns are where an employee works to a specific contract that both starts and ends at a particular time. there are several special rules for being on a fixed term contract. The jobs that often would be on a fixed term contract would be research jobs.
Office hours:
Office hours are the hours of which business would normally be conducted,9-5. jobs within the media that go on office hours would be Administration jobs.
Freelance:
A Freelancer doen't work from 9-5, as they can spend their own allotted time on a project. jobs within the media are not set hours and take a long time to complete,examples of these jobs would be editors.
Hourly rates:
The hourly rates depend on what job it is; an example of this would be that a cameraman gets payed £23.84 an hour, the minimum amount being £10.05 and the maximum amount £39.71
Piece work:
piece work is when someone makes a piece of work and gets paid for it. this work takes as long as it takes to complete. An example of this would be set design.
