1. 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
2. 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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