Unit 8: Understanding the Television and Film Industry

Chapter 2 

‘Knowing who’s who in the television and film industries’

Fixed Term Contract

Fixed Term contracts are given by employers on the basis that the contract will terminate at a future date when a specific term Expires so basically covering for an employee who is on sick or maternity leave.

Freelance

A Freelancer or freelance worker is a person who pursues a profession without a long term commitment to any one employer. An example of this would be its your business you work for yourself you can work whenever you want it is totally up to you.

Hourly Rates 

Hourly wage describes a rate an employer agrees to pay a worker per hour. The average or mean basically is an estimated hourly Rate calculated using the varying hourly rates of a group of workers in a specific occupation.

Irregular Patterns 

Grammar, not conforming to the prevalent pattern or patterns of formation,inflection , construction, etc. so Basically you dont have certain time to work different times every day.

Management is one of the most important roles in TV and Film, as whoever is managing the production is in charge of certain aspects. Job roles such as an Accounting are in charge of managing the budget of the 

production, managing salaries and what the money is spent on. 

Creative job roles are the people who think of the ideas of the production of the movie. Creative workers will be mainly used in the pre-production of the stage of the TV Show/Film. Job roles such as Script Writing.
Editorial job roles are usually people who work on the post production of a movie/TV Show. Editorial job roles include: Video editor, sound editor and a title designer.  Technical job roles are usually for people working in the production of the movie/TV Show. Job roles include: Lighting operator, Camera men and a production sound manager. 

Job Roles

Flowchart

Development- Script Writer, Location Scouts 

Pre-Production- Script Writer, doing the posters, Graphic Design 

Job Roles in the Television and Film Industries

Task 2 

Script Editor Job-Reporting to the Script Producer you'll work as part of a team overseeing episodes from idea stage to delivery to the production crew and through to shoot. Generating creative ideas as well as long term story ideas, you'll work with the production teams representing the writers' interests, ensuring their consent to script changes as well as ensuring the scripts are editorially correct, carrying out the necessary checks. In addition you'll attend the monthly Commissioning meetings offering and suggesting critical and creative suggestions about your week's episodes. You'll be responsible for providing writers with the editorial brief needed and ensure they have access to any technical expert or consultant as required. You'll be restructuring and generating new story lines within your script as well as turning around creative drafts in short spaces of time.

People working on EastEnders are a talented, experienced and creative bunch. To join them and make this programme the most talked about on the channel, it's really important you have the necessary skills we're looking for. You should demonstrate prior experience of script editing ideally on TV drama series, have significant experience in generating creative ideas and treatments and experience of working with new and experienced writers under pressure and to tight deadlines. You should also have strong communication, negotiation, influencing and persuading skills and the ability to work within a team and on your own initiative. It is important that you have an understanding of the copyright law, Writers Guild agreements, contracts and the legal implications for production processes. you will need to take a creative writingg degree because it will be classed as a qualification when you go for the job role.

Its fixed term contract/ Full time 

Series Producer Job-As Series Producer, you will lead the team producing specific output, ensuring we maintain our high editorial standards whilst being creative in our production. We're looking for an experienced Series Producer who is highly organised, has strong editorial judgment and writing skills, and can cope well under pressure. You will also need good leadership skills to encourage and motivate your team.

With substantial experience as a Series Producer and preferably a background in news and/or current affairs journalism, broadcasting, print or online, you will have a track record of managing a production from ideas generation through to delivery. Evidence of sound editorial judgement and the ability to lead a team are essential, as are good writing skills, previous management experience, and demonstrable experience of organising and keeping on top of changing schedules in a fast-moving environment with often contentious material.

** Please note **

Your application should be accompanied by a 250 word treatment for a film on The One Show.  This can either be an original story or a fresh angle from the current news agenda.  Please outline what this film would investigate, reveal, interrogate or expose - and give details of what would happen in the film and what the viewer would see.

Mediacom Marketing Strategies

1. I hear about Films everywhere adverts promotion ads
2. I like everything about going to the cinema and there is nothing I dislike about it
3. I go to cineworld in Middlesbrough
4. I go with Family/Friends
5.  

Animation Assignment

I would like to do my animation based on horrid henry because I have grown up watching that and I am going to print a picture of him out and make it look like his arms are moving or in other words he is waving.

This is an example of cut out Techniques

Charlie and Lola

Angela Anaconda




My Story Line is going to be my character waves his arms at the start and then he walks away and when he walks away half way he collapses and has a heart attack and then waves goodbye.

My story Line could also be that my character waves at the start then starts running backwards and forwards and then falls and waves goodbye.


Scene 1 

Background no one in it just background clouds etc.
Character comes in cut to half body shot- waves at camera
Cut to Titles
cut back to character - Half body shots stop waving
Cut to full character begins walking off
cut to full body close up- collapses
cut to birds eye view shot close up character on ground
cut to extreme close up characters eye close

Dies Roll and Credits

Task for next week is to find some pictures of horrid henry from all different angles

Local Motion

Kevins Production Diary

Today we were experimenting our Technology Equipment for example the sound system and cameras and todays lesson went well.

we are going to go out and interview people in small groups for this local motion assignment and we are going ask them some questions like how far do you travel? etc.


The week we edited all of our videos with the software adobe premiere and my team did it basically we all did together and then we uploaded it.

This week we are updating our production diary and finishing off the important bits that we I need to do and at the end of the week update it.

cut out animation

This is Called The Magic Horse it is also a cut out animation by lotte reiniger and she cuts out everything that comes to her imagination also her figures are silhouette and are on black paper.






This is also a cut out animation by John Ryan and it is called captain pugwash.

I also did a cut out animation with owen in my class and we done a player going across a  football pitch

CEL ANIMATION

The Title is Jerry and Jumbo (1953) this is a video of Tom and Jerry in the early 1950s was directed by william hanna and Joseph barbara.
Is animated by Kenneth Muse, Irven spence and Ed barge.

The Quality 0f the drawing is excellent and makes it stand out like an actual animation.

This is walt disney the brave engineer and this was out in the 1950s just before tom and jerry and is directed by jack kinney however it was animated by milt kahl, fred moore, amd al bertino. 

Cell Animation

Cel Animation

A traditional form of animation used in the production of cartoons or animated movies where each frame of the scene is drawn by hand. a full-length feature film produced using cel animation would often require a million or more drawings to complete.

https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/explore-animation/0/steps/12225

This is a link that explains the step to step guide for cel animation 

The Title is Jerry and Jumbo (1953) this is a video of Tom and Jerry in the early 1950s was directed by william hanna and Joseph barbara.
Is animated by Kenneth Muse, Irven spence and Ed barge.

The Quality 0f the drawing is excellent and makes it stand out like an actual animation.

This is walt disney the brave engineer and this was out in the 1950s just before tom and jerry and is directed by jack kinney however it was animated by milt kahl, fred moore, amd al bertino. 

Model Based Animation

This is a short animation which I made with owen swift on the apple software I Stop Motion and using UHD To make animations on models we made our model first and every time we moved it we made sure that we take a photo each time so when we play it back it shows that its actually doing what we wanted it to do.

This model based animation is called Wallace and gromitt and it was made in 1990 and it was made by Nick park also Known as aardman animations. 

This is another model based animation and this is called The Little Prince (1979) and is made by a person called will vinton. 

This is another model based animation it is called comedy horrors and it is made by will vinton and it was out in 1991. 

This is a still image of horrid henry from the front for my piece of animation 

This is a still image also however from the back which when printed it will be cut out and used for my animation. 

georges melies was a french illusionist and film director famous for leading many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema.  he was an especially prfillic innovator in the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. 

Winsor mcCay was ana american cartoonist and animator. he is best known for the comic strip little nemo. he was a quick, profilic and technically dextrous artist. between 1911 and 1921 he self financed and animated ten films, some of which survive only as fragments. 

Lotte Reiniger was a german film director and the foremost pioneer of silhouette animation. she has made more than 40 films over her career, all using her invention. as a child she was fascinated with chinese art, and she even built her own puppy theatre, so that she could put on shows for her family and friends. 

early animation devices

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Zoetrope is a 19th century optical toy consisting of a cylinder with series of pictures on the inside of it .

phenakistoscope was an animation device that used to persistence of vision principle to create an illusion of motion.

kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhiibion device it was designed for films to be voiewed by one individual at a time through a peephole.

mutoscope was an early motion device. it did not project on a screen and provided viewing only one individual at a time.

Persistence of Vision is where it is a still image and is where our brain is tricked into the actual move

enjoy guys!!!

having fun with my animation I hope you guys enjoy it also it is a pixilation Sequence on onion skin. I have also made it in class because I am very Intelligent and I made it with Jess. 

however I am not a Onion. 

This is a pixillation animation and it is called the skateboard and it is made by somebody called Pes

This is another pixilation animation by pes