Wednesday, 5 December 2012

Skills And Attributes
 
This blog will show you examples and give the tools in the creative world of media production.

Team Skills: Where you work well with others or any other people towards the jobs that have been set by the employers. And make sure to get along with said people in order to get the work done on time. such as if you were in a focus group you would need to work togather with other prople in order to complete your objective.

Punctuality: To make sure that jobs have been planned out and finished by the appointed time with no delays and to make sure to turn up to work and plan work on time. So maybe you could construct a time table or set alarms for when you need to do such things.

Iniative: To show leadership among a group and to solve problems around the work place by taking control of the situation before others do. Maybe when leading a group you should ask them first what they do in order to get to know them.

Computer Skills: Apply skills to use of the computer in media which is mainly required in the field of media and opens more doors to different jobs as well.

Communication Skills: by listening and giving good idea's to another person but also give good reasons on why idea's may not work. such as when presenting a new idea.

knowledge of equipment: in order to fulfill job requirements you must have knowledge of the equipment you will be using such as computers and the software on it.

Time Management: In work timing is everything and being late is not usually tolerated so timing must be carefully planned such as how to use spare time such as breaks.

Trust Worthy: In the work place trust must be acquired from other workers or your word on some matters may not be considered.

Work Experience: For a short period of time mostly a week or 2 weeks you will in an estableshment which means youy will be unpaid but it allows you to gain the work experience required in some places that would require said skills.

Under Graduate Degree: Where someone works towards there degree after graduation for 3-4 years in order to complete work. such as animation where someone can work towards a degree in that field.

Post Graduate Degree: To research on something more higher up and ad it to qualifications and the final grade on work.

Traineeship/Internship: trainee is where a stage of trainindg in a kind of course such as computer work or manual work. Internship is where you are employed for a short amount of time mostly a few weeks and sometimes is unpaid.

Voluntarey work: Voluntarey work is people voluntere for work in different feilds as extra help with no pay. But it is mainly done to help people such as when people voluntere down at a soup kitchen, at hostpital wards to help or talk to people who need it or down at old people homes to assist people in their work through the day.

Casual Employment: Casual employment is where an emloyee is paid at an hourly rate of 20% but does not include regular emloyment benefits such as sick leave and working time is arranged by your employers. but the employees are allowed to turn down any work oppertunity.

Runner Job: A runner job ressembles that of an internship where you are not given a higher up job but like the job of an assistant. meaning you run around giving people forms they would need or handing out coffee. the job is paid but it is very low £7-£8 an hour and even then it will take a least a year or two to get into a junior assistance job.

Paid Internship: is ussally in private buissness or large organisations that can employ young students to work and learn around offices at the same time and the hours are a maxium of 40 hours a week but the pay is good up to 23,000.

Recruitment: These days most forms of recruitm,ent are through adverts or newspaper adds. the Internet sends out job recruitments through out any part of the world and gives its requirments and Benefits if you become an employee or an intern such as when people apply for a job BBC it gives out all kinds of weork in media. The Newspaper provides alot more jobs to choose from in many different fields and provides the same such as where job interview will take place and what kind of job you will recieve. Word of mouth is a small part of buissness but is also one of the most important parts because through spoken words people can convince anyone who needs a job into their buissnesses and can make their offers sound good and they can provide jobs through word of mouth in any field of bussiness.
   

                               

Wednesday, 21 November 2012


Full time, permanent:   Meaning you will work on a full time basis, which is usually 37-39 hours a week . Basically a permanent contract makes you a permanent member of the company's staff, which means you are allowed to access to benefits which other employees have access to, including pensions, time off when sick with pay, paternity/maternity leave and holidays with pay.

Part time, permanent:  Meaning you will only work a fraction of a full time job, but you will only work a set amount of time per week. You will still have access to the same benefits (as above) but they will be reduced based on the fewer amount of hours.

Fixed term and freelance: both jobs and contracts are the same in some aspects such as they are both only temporary and will only last around a certain amount of time.
On a fixed term contract you will still be entitled to benefits if in the companies contract. But a freelance will be completely responsible for his/ her own arrangements such as pension, off sick with payment, holidays and such other terms. And also have to pay for their own expenses such as national insurance and tax.

Shifts: Meaning the hours you work a day are set to a certain time. Shifts can be set for late nights or early mornings and are used in many places that need to be manned day and night for 24 hours.

Work hours: in most lines of work office hours are usually set to Monday-Friday and the times are set to 9 am-5 pm.

Anti social and non regular hours pay: It is quite common in jobs in the creative media industries, as is production work and especially on location, this can be irregular and can involve working at very early points in the day or possibly very late in to the night. the payments can be incentive to people to work unsociable hours beyond contracted duties.

Salaries: salaries are a set of annual wages that is broken down and given out as monthly payments. A salary will be can and sometimes will be advertised as, for an example 20,000 pounds per annum, which means per year, this payment is divided by 12 in order to give a monthly payment of around 1,666 pounds ( because you will also have to pay tax and national insurance on this payment). 

On completion of work: This is also very common among those who work in the creative media industries, even more for those people commissioned to work. The contract that one sign's outlines what you are required to do and when, and also you will be paid the agreement fee when zed work has been completed.                      
  

Wednesday, 24 October 2012

Unit 3 creative media sectors


Unit 3 creative media sectors
TV: The television industry is supported by many channels and it dominates many countries with their major broadcasters and their much larger not so major broadcasters. There are nine terrestrial broadcasters, whose output is broadcast through land based transmitters. They include BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, SDC, SMG and UTV. Television has also been very accommodating for those with disabilities such as audio description for the blind and sign language for the deaf so it can be watched by anyone.
  • BBC
  • ITV
  • Channel 4
  • Five
  • SDC
  • SMG
Copyright BBC 
Radio:  As a radio or audio industry professional, you could receive up to £1,500 towards the cost of training schemes. Radio is undergoing a digital revolution every bit as profound as that affecting the TV as with all revolutions many of the eventual outcomes are uncertain. Like the television it is well funded and has many broadcasters throughout the world. To gain an understanding of the various work in the radio would require creative media studies.
  • Radio 1
  • Smooth Radio
  • TFM radio
  • Capital 

Press:

The news media are those elements of the newspaper industry and news broadcasting all other the world. The industry’s focus on delivering news to the general public or a target public. The Internet has allowed many people to post their own news online such as blogging recent events or how BBC.co.uk puts their new on online posts and allows people to comment on them and allows many to keep up with the news for those who are on the go and do not have time but many people who post on the blogs are called Jbloggers.


Publishing: Newspapers are regularly scheduled publications that present recent news. About one-third of publishers in the United States are newspaper publishers. But magazines are another form of publishing as well and may have a bigger market range as it holds news on current events like newspapers, but also have local gossip on most people (mainly celebrities) and there social lives. Or some magazines hold activities for young kids or adults such as crossword puzzles or some might contain self-tests that can be done at home through a series of questions like a home personality test or a match making test but through the interactive media age most people can now look up such things online. Also people can get magazines with political interests such as the next election on who is winning in there election campaigns or how far ahead they are in business or these magazines can even include most updates on recent updates in technology or scientific work.  

Film: The film industry is mainly known for many genres such as Drama, Sci-fi, horror, comedy, action or thriller. Mainly comedy and dramas are the some of the most popular kinds of films in the industry because they make the people laugh and maybe cry such as most drams like James Cameron’s The Titanic. There are at least 400 permanent film companies but this depends on things being worked on at any time.
  • Fox
  • Dream works
  • MGM
  • Disney and Pixar
  • Universal Studios
  • Paramount
  • Warner Bros 

Interactive media:  The interactive media industry is very fluid sector with many overlaps with, and blurred distinctions between, other sectors. It is worth several billion pounds annually and employs around 34,300 people, representing approximately seven percent of the total Creative Industries. Interactive media is not so much a sector as a discipline, as a creation and use is increasingly becoming part of everyday activity across all sectors of industry in general.  In a rapidly evolving industry, any d
Computer games: Other many years gaming has been a very popular and a very fast growing and successful industry. The first games were launched in the 1960s. By the 1970s there was recognised games industry with video with video arcades and home entertainment consoles.
Home computing exploded in the 1980s and brought a period of huge expansion and creative innovation. Games became an industry and moved away from 2 or 3 talented, devoted creative “mavericks” being responsible for every aspect of the project.
With the massive growth in its audience and incredible advances in technology and creative possibilities, the games industry offer a wide range of interesting career opportunities. But as with the other sectors, there is competition for jobs at all levels and candidates who have a good knowledge of how the industry works have a much better chance of getting in and getting on. 
efinition of it risks quickly becoming out of date.
Photography/ Photo imaging: For the UK image sector to remain competitive in long term and popular corporations, companies and organisations within it need collectively to promote workforce development and ensure skills are adequately developed across the sector.
But in many industries such as tabloid newspapers use their photography for wrong reasons such as fro stories that are not true.
 
Advertising and Marketing:  Most advertisement industries generate £6.2 billion annually for the UK economy.  The skill needs of the 13,000 companies and almost 250,000 individuals who work in the UK advertising mainly design websites adverts or posters.  
Animation: Animation is the rapid display of sequence of images to create an illusion of movement through videos or computer generated images (CGI).
Public: is for everyone to know and use and we pay for it through our license fee.
Private: Specified for people who pay for so people can make extra money off of it.
 
Cross Media: It crosses over into different media expanding their industries for example a TV company could also do stuff on the radio too.