Job Roles

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With the Roles in which I have chosen I will put here:

Production Manager!

Salary: This can vary from £25,000 in the beginning and generally after sometime can alter between £40,000 and £60,000.

The Working Pattern: Shift/ Work Variable Hours:

In terms of the shift work throughout this tends to allude to various groups of workers who are doing their shifts in different times. Although there tends to be various amounts of hours, this would result in someone else working the hours and can alter from day-to-day based on their overall duties. They tend to also work with many HOD’s in the effort to be able to finish estimating and budget particularly when it includes scouting to find the production materials as well as supplies. They generally tend to partner with Assistant Directors in the effort to ensure that the department’s budgets are meeting their targets by working with production accountants to make reports on weekly costs. With a Production Manager and their responsibilities they tend to comprise of signing releases as well as negotiate contracts and ensuring that all payments are being made.

Music Editor!

Salary: This starts off from roughly between; £20,000 to £25,000 and usually sticks throughout the period of working.

The Working Pattern: Full Time:

The Music Editor tends to be there to be accountable for every individual piece of music which would have been used within the film. They tend to have to collaborate with the Director as well as the Picture Editor, and this is to be able to show the soundtrack of each scene and then to get the approval from the director as well as setting budgets.

Art Director!

Salary: The salary for an Art Director tends to start from £25,000 and up.

The Working Pattern: Variable Hours:

Art Directors, they tend to work in the way of making visual features on a set look better in the collaboration with construction as well as designers to be able to accomplish a new and suitable look for that specific film as it would surely be different every time. They are also there to ensure that all the costs are within the department’s budget. They also at time will tend to work with the Editor, if any visuals were to require enhancing then they would work with Transport if any animals for say or large objects which perhaps were required to be moved to each location. Art Directors tend to work variable hours and this tends to be based on whether the tasks in which they are undertaking each day to complete.

Producer!

Salary: A Producer’s salary tends to start off from around £35,000 to around £40,000. If a Producer is offered a promotion they may be in for a chance of it increasing to around £60,000.

The Working Pattern: Irregular:

In terms of talking about the Producer, they tend to take care for the financial side of things within the production, they will be there to be able to approve of the production schedule as well as budget. They are also there to be able to take care of the financing part. With the Producers, they generally may choose to work with a specific cast as well as working with HODs to be able to settle budgets accordingly.

Picture Library Assistant!

Salary: There salary tends to consist of being around £25,000 and above.

The Working Pattern: Shift Hours:

They tend to be in charge of scanning as well as captioning all images which are relevant in the effort to be able to catalogue them by researchers. They will typically be working alongside Runners since they are in charge of getting tapes. Picture Library Assistants may be requested to help with Customer Sales as well as Picture Research and Administrators.

Sound Mixer!

Salary: The Sound Mixers salary is anywhere up to £30,000.

With the Sound Mixer, their speciality tends to be with working on the overall quality of sound within the set as well as setting up the playback equipment and speakers which are used for the actors. Sound Mixers tend to send recording files to post-production after shooting is over. They tend to work alongside different departments for example; Costume, Visual Effects Supervisors to then be able to systematise where the microphones should generally be placed as well as to then be able to accomplish where the best place is in terms of best sound quality. Sound Mixers are generally freelance workers, meaning that they are self-employed and therefore work for a vast number of other companies which have hired them to be able to fill in specific duties which they are responsible to do specific tasks.

Part Time Camera Man!

Salary: With the salary a Part-time cameraman can look to be making around £9,500.

Working Pattern: Part Time.

A Part Time cameraman tends to collaborate alongside the Director and the DOP (Director of Photography) to therefore be able to accomplish overall shots that would be needed and generally necessary into the completion of the film. They tend to work at a piece rate meaning that they get paid every time they have completed a piece of work at a specific company, this could vary per company.

Bookings Co-Ordinator!

Salary: The salary of a Bookings Co-Ordinator tends to be around the range of £18,000 and £25,000.

Working Pattern: Full Time Office Hour.

The job of a booking co-ordinator is to be able to communicate with clients, and assist with costing and the job of quoting jobs, making invoices, job sheets as well as confirmation forms. They tend to normally be working alongside with Facility Managers as well as Client Services Managers to then be able to support and manage resources as well as facilities of each of the jobs.

Location Scout!

Salary: A Location Scout tends to be looking at around £34 p/h meaning it would generally be around at least £340 per day.

Working Pattern: Hourly Rates.

With Location Scouts they tend to be responsible for finding the ideal suit in terms of the environment in which a scene of a film would be shot in. The Location Scout tend to take regular visits to various of sites, once the right site is discovered they must then get authorisation to be able to film on that particular property to then ensure that they avoid any legal issues during the filming stage. Location Scouts work alongside the Director to ensure that the location is the right place for what the image of the film. They also work with the Producer to ensure that all fees and costs of hiring the location are reasonable, meaning that they are within the spending plan. In terms of their working hours they would be described as unsociable which generally means that they would be working weekends and late nights. Yet, when comparing to other occupations within the same filming field they don’t earn as much.