Shift work allows workers to do the same job at different times, such as early mornings, days, nights, weekends or holidays. Radio producers may work shifting schedules depending on the location. Actors and actresses sign fixed term contracts that specify the length of their work on a TV or film production. Production coordinators, who manage production offices, work regular office hours set by production managers. Freelance makeup and hair artists are hired by companies for individual productions. Gaffers, who work in the film industry, may have irregular work patterns with unpredictable hours due to zero hour contracts. Runners assisting with TV and film productions are typically paid hourly rates ranging from £6.50 to £10 per hour, though some work

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Task 2C:
Shift work is where work places allow workers to work doing the same job but
at different periods of time. Radio Producers work in both dialogue based
and music Radio. Radio producers may be requested to work different types
of shift patterns whether that is early morning shift, day shifts, night shift,
weekends or holidays. They also may be required to work in different places
and tend to some travelling depending on whether the location is
A fixed term is where companies give their workers a start and finish time for
how long they would be working at their business. Actors and actresses are
given a fixed term contract to sign agreeing with the terms and conditions of
the production and how long they will be working with either the TV
Company or a film company.
Office hours are the hours in which the business is being conducted. A person
within the media industry who works office hours are Production Coordinators,
they run the production office and follow the rules that are set out by their
production managers. “Production Coordinators manage the production
office and are left in charge of it whenever the Production Manager is on
set.” http://www.creativeskillset.org/film/jobs/production/article_3877_1.asp
Freelance is where an individual works for him or herself and is hired to
provide work for other companies and businesses for different assignments. A
person who works within the film and TV industry who does free lance work is
makeup and hair artist. Company’s hirer these people to help with their
production and create the desired look that the company want for their
production.
Irregular pattern is the pattern of work the workers do, they may not have
work as frequently as other members of their work place, this may be
because they may have a zero hour contract. People who work in the media
industry and may have irregular work patterns are Gaffers; gaffers work long
unpredictable working hours.
Hourly rates are where works/ staff a re paid a specific amount of money per
hour they work. Runners work with TV and Film industry helping out with

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making a production. According to previous research I have done these links
show that runners get paid a hourly rate of between £6.50-£10 and some
runners do not get paid at all for their work as some of them do it for work
experience of jut voluntary do it for free.
http://www.prospects.ac.uk/runner_broadcasting_film_video_salary.htm
http://www.allaboutcareers.com/careers/job-profile/runner-broadcastingfilm.htm
Piecework is when people are paid for the product/ production they have
made. I person who does this type of work is a free lance journalist who works
on particular stories for magazines and newspapers and get commissioned
by television and film companies.