Television
These requirements for several common job types in
televison:
AREA OF EMPLOYMENT:
Operational Roles (Camera operator, editor, etc.) some of
the requirements would be that formal qualifications are less important,
experience is the key.
On-Screen Personality (Presenter, actor, etc.) some of the
requirement would be formal qualifications are not usually important. Personal
attributes such as self-confidence and people skills are critical. You will also
need to be "camera-friendly".
Media Commentary (Movie or television critic, etc.) Formal
qualifications are usually important, or at least an understanding of academic
protocol. Practical experience is not usually a requirement.
Management; Formal qualifications are very important and a
reasonable level of practical experience will often be expected.
Photography
There are a wide variety of Photo Imaging qualifications at
all levels and the 'right' one will depend upon the particular job you are
aspiring to and the type of learning style that suits you best.
The range of
qualifications available includes:
•National and Scottish Vocational Qualifications (NVQs or
SVQs) in Photo Imaging
•Advanced Apprenticeship in Photo Imaging gives structured
learning, providing clear vocational routes into employment as well as giving
Apprentices the chance to ‘earn and learn' at the same time.
•City & Guilds City & Guilds Vocational Awards in
Photography City & Guilds offer a wide range of study options, both full
and part time, from single units through to a full time one year diploma.
•Photo Imaging Foundation Degrees combine academic and
work-based learning through collaboration between employers and education
providers.
•Higher Education BA or BSc A variety of courses are
available. Use the Skillset courses database to help you locate a suitable
course or visit UCAS to see what's available where.
•Further Education Diploma or Certificate in Art &
Design (Photography) or Digital Imaging A variety of courses are available such
as BTEC, OCN, and NCFE. Your local FE colleges will be able to advise what they
offer, or use the BFI/Creative Skillset Media Courses database for a wider
search.
•Industry Approved Courses and Qualifications. The British
Institute of Professional Photography (BIPP) recognises various college courses
throughout the UK. Ten such colleges offer the BIPP Professional Qualifying
Exam (PQE). Look out for BIPP/PQE on the course information.
•Professional & Trade Association Qualifications and
Courses Many of the professional and trade associations active in the Photo
Imaging sector also offer short courses, seminars and workshops designed for
professionals or those with some experience at various locations throughout the
UK.
Obtaining employment.
How to obtain employment in a creative media industry with
reference to precise and detailed illustrative examples.
Radio Presenter
Steps that can be taken to become a radio presenter.
· Get voice
coaching lessons or find some vocal warm up exercise routines (if you want a long
standing career in vocal work you need to look after your voice).
· If you can't
afford voice coaching lessons, pop down to your local library and see if they
have or can order you in a book on voice exercises.
· If you are in
the UK find your nearest Hospital Radio station and apply to become a
presenter. All Hospital Radio stations are run by volunteers and are where many
famous presenters started their careers.
· If you are at
college or university find out if there is a Student Radio station and sign up.
If there isn't already one set up get a group together and start one.
· Get involved in
local theatre groups; radio presenting is all about putting on a show which
entertains the listener which is the same principal as acting.
· When you feel you have produced a great
show start making demos and send them to radio stations. When doing this try to
find a name to address the demo to at each station as this increases the chance
of someone listening to them. If you find out about a new station opening up
always get your demo in as early as possible so you are at top of the pile.
Contracts
Full Time, Permanent;
This Contract means that you work on a full-time basis, usually 39 hours a
week. This means that you would work for
one employer and are paid by that employer. You are entitled to the companies’
benefits like pension, sick pay, holidays Etc…
This Contract would be permanent until you would want to leave, or are
fired and retired.
Part-Time, Permanent; This Contract is more
flexible than a full time contract, you work a portion on the work on a full
time contract, But you would still be entitled to the same benefits as a full
time, contract but will be reduced due to working fewer hours. The hours will
be set hours same as with a full time contract but you will not be entitle to
work anymore than the set hours.
Fixed time and freelance; These contracts are
kind of the same thing, both are temporary positions they will only last over a
period of time, Whilst being in a fixed
contract you still may be entitled to some of the companies benefits.
Shift hours; Shift work is an employment
designed to make use of, all 24 hours of the clock each day of the week
(abbreviated as 24/7). The practice typically sees the day divided into
"shifts", set periods of time during which different groups of
workers take up their posts. For example some shifts are night shifts, day
shift, back shift Etc…
Office hours; for a standard office they can
range between anything from 9am-5pm to 8am-4pm, this would be a full time or
permanent job and the employee would be entitled to all of the companies
benefits.
Salary; A fixed regular payment, usually paid
on a monthly or weekly basis but often expressed as an annual amount, made by
an employer.
Irregular hours; Irregular hours are hours
outside normal working hours on weekdays. Four types of irregular working hours
are evenings, night-time, day time hours on Saturdays and Sundays.
Anti-social
hours; anti-social hours are when an employer or employee would
work when other people wouldn’t want to for example in the evenings or late at
night.
Hourly pay; hourly pay
is when an employee is paid for the amount of hours they do for example if
someone was to earn £6 and worked 2 hours they would get £12 pound for the two
hours they had worked.
EXAMPLE
For example if I was to work on a full time/permanent job I
could be a senior digital art director and earn up to 50k + per annum.
ADVERTISING
ADVERTISING
The Advertising industry generates £6.2 billion annually for
the UK economy. The skills needs of the
13,000 companies and almost 250,000 individuals who work in the UK advertising
industry are now being looked after by Creative Skillset, working with the Institute
of Practitioners in Advertising.
Advertising is a
large and diverse sector, ranging from creative agencies to sales departments,
but at the heart of the 13,000 companies and almost 250,000 individuals working
in advertising is the drive to satisfy the client.
It is an important player in the UK economy as well as a
world leader, generating £6.2 billion annually for the UK economy.
JOB ROLES
The following profiles are examples of key jobs that exist
in the marketing, advertising;
· Advertising
account executive
An advertising account executive is an employee of an
advertising agency who acts as the main link between one or more clients and
the rest of the agency.
· Advertising account planner
Account planners have often been called 'the left side of a
creative brain'. Their primary function is to find consumer truth and insight
that helps the creative teams to create work that is not only entertaining and
highly memorable, but that is relevant to the consumer and effective in the
marketplace
· Advertising art director
Advertising art directors, often referred to as ‘creative’,
are responsible for producing innovative ideas for the visual elements of
advertising campaigns in all kinds of media
· Advertising
copywriter
Advertising copywriters generally work alongside an art
director within the creative department of an advertising, media or
full-service agency.
· Event
organiser
Event organisers are responsible for the production of
events from conception through to completion.
· Market researcher
Market researcher is to organise gathering information about
markets or customers.
· Marketing
executive
Marketing executives are involved in developing marketing
campaigns to promote a product, service or idea
· Media buyer
Media buyers negotiate, purchase and monitor advertising
space and airtime on behalf of their clients.
· Media
planner
Media planners work within advertising agencies or media
planning and buying agencies.
· Public
affairs consultant
Public affairs consultants are often referred to as
lobbyists, but their work is more wide-ranging.
· Public
relations account executive
Public relations account executives manage the information
between organisations or individuals and the general public.
· Public
relations officer
Public relations (PR) is about managing reputation. This
career field aims to gain understanding and support for clients as well as to influence
opinion and behaviour.
· Sales
promotion account executive
A sales promotion account executive devises, develops and
implements ideas for promotional marketing campaigns
PHOTOGRAPHY
PHOTOGRAPHY/PHOTO IMAGING
Photography is the art, science and practice of creating
durable images
The total Photo Imaging workforce includes around 43,100
people. 51% of these are based in the south of England, with the largest part -
some 38% - in London and the South East.
The Photo Imaging industry is made up of 8,700 companies, two thirds
(68%) of which are sole trading or freelance photographers.
The remaining
companies can be broadly divided into the following categories:
•Image producers (including laboratories and minilabs)
•Photo retail
•Picture libraries and agencies
•Manufacturers
•Support services (e.g. equipment hire and repair)
Photo imaging is when a photo is manipulated and changed.
COMPUTER GAMES
The UK Games industry forms a major part of a global
industry that is gaining in importance and prominence.
Sales of the most popular games are now breaking records for
sales of entertainment products.
The first games were launched in the 1960s. By the 1970s.
Home computing expanded in the 1980s and brought a period of huge expansion and
creative innovation. Developing top of
the range Computer Game titles now involves large teams of people, and costs
millions of pounds.
The computer games workforce is distributed relatively
evenly across the UK, which differentiates the games industry from the rest of
the creative media sector
PUBLISHING
PUBLISHING
Publishing is a varied group of industries including:
-Books
-Directories
-Journals
-Magazines
-Business Media
-Newspapers
-News Agencies
The Publishing industry produces a income in the region of
£10.1 billion and is one of the biggest earners for the UK Media Industries.
JOB ROLES
I have outlined examples of key jobs that exist in the
publishing industry. To find the job roles that best match skills and
interests.
· Advertising copywriter
· Bookseller
·
Commissioning editor
· Editorial
assistant
· Graphic
designer
· Magazine features editor
· Magazine
journalist
· Marketing executive
· Press
sub-editor
· Print
production planner
· Public relations officer
· Publishing
copy-editor/proof-reader
· Publishing rights manager
· Sales
executive
· Writer
· Sales and
marketing
Steps to getting a Job in television
Try to get an intern ship at a TV
Studio. I know it sounds obvious but if you start at the bottom there is a
chance that an opportunity may arrive to be on TV or fill in for someone
Apply for a real time job at TV
studio. If you are lucky to get an interview then be yourself and tell them
your dreams of being in the TV industry
Be confident. Don't be shy, if you
aren't confident then you won’t get an opportunity, but don't be arrogant
though
Always look your best. You never know
when you will get an opportunity to be on TV or work behind the scenes
Smile. It will make people think you
are friendly and will instantly brighten your face and maybe somebody's day
You could always look online for
different jobs or apprenticeships.
Animation
Animation is the fast
display of a sequence of images to create an illusion of movement. You will find animated content on television,
in feature films, commercials, websites and computer or video games. Just over
2000 people work in animation in the UK, nearly half of them freelance, and there
are currently more than 300 companies producing a range of work.
The Animation Sector can be roughly divided into four main
sectors:
•2D drawn or traditional
•2D computer generated
•stop frame
•3D computer generated
Some companies only
concentrate on one sector but studio’s focus on all four.
FILMS
The UK's film industry is part of a constantly evolving
creative media landscape
So while our latest research shows there are around 400
permanent companies in the film industry.
In 2006, the UK film industry contributed £4.3 billion to
the UK economy, up from £3.1 billion in 2004.
516 films were released across the UK in 2007. In 2007 the UK had the largest number of
digital screens (cinemas) in Europe at 296 screens, double the number in 2006.
INTERACTIVE MEDIA
Interactive media is related to the ideas interaction
design, new media, interactivity, human computer interaction, cyber culture,
digital culture, and includes specific cases such as, for example, interactive
television, interactive narrative, interactive advertising, algorithmic art,
videogames, social media, ambient intelligence, virtual reality and augmented
reality.
Basically just using the internet.
The interactive media industry is a very flexible sector
with many joins with, and blurred differences between, other sectors.
It is worth several billion pounds annually and employs
around 34,300 people, representing approximately 7% of the media Industries. In
particular, as interactive media products become more refined, their
development increasingly has greater overlap with the software and IT sector.
RADIO
Radio is undergoing a digital revolution and as with all
revolutions many of the ultimate outcomes are uncertain.
The quick and intense impact has been experienced
differently. Creating fear as well as
opportunities. But even with all the uncertainty there is a sense that this is
an exciting for development.
The radio sector has been growing in recent years and now
employs over 22,000 people.
Funding for radio and audio training
As a radio or audio industry professional, you could receive
up to £1,500 towards the cost of training schemes.
TELEVISON
There are nine
terrestrial channels. Who broadcast
throughout the UK they include the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five, S4C, SMG and
UTV. There are around 300 cable and
satellite broadcasts they include Virgin Media, Sky, Discovery and Disney.
Approximately 36% of households in UK which translates to about 25 million
people have Sky digital in UK. The
largest part of the industry is comprised of around 850 independent production
companies. They make the most watched
and the best programmes on television for example like x-factor, big brother,
soap operas like Coronation Street and Eastenders. The biggest companies employ thousands of
people throughout the year. In 2008
television and radio raised £3.2 billion and the Television sector employs
55,800 people which are the second highest employment rate in the media
sector. Television is literally becoming
easier and easier to watch anywhere at any time. Because smart phones, tablets, androids let
you watch programmes that you’d watch at home anywhere using apps like
Iplayer.
Public and Private ownerships
There are two sorts of ownership of media: public and
private. The first type, public ownership, refers to providing communication as
a public service and addressing audiences as citizens rather than consumers.
This differs from private ownership, which provides communication for the
purpose of generating profit.
