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.