12) Powtoon

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10) CV

16) qualifications and experience

actor -  As a working actor, you would develop your skill and experience through ongoing rehearsing and performing.

It could help you to do extra training or gain skills, such as horse riding, which may be needed for period dramas and action films. You can also take advanced classes and workshops to maintain and improve your acting skills.

You may choose to complete further postgraduate study such as an MA in acting or MA acting for stage, screen and radio.

You may also choose to train in related areas like directing, scriptwriting, drama therapy or teaching.

At drama school or university you could study towards a qualification such as a diploma, foundation degree, or degree. Relevant subjects could include:

• performance studies
• contemporary theatre and performance
• acting
• musical theatre
• drama.

If you already have a degree or are a mature student you could complete a postgraduate diploma.

You would usually need to pass an audition to get into drama school or university. You may also need three A levels or equivalent qualifications. You should check with universities and drama schools for exact entry requirements as other qualifications and experience may also be accepted. See the UCAS website for more information about universities and the courses they offer.

lighting technician

 need relevant practical experience. You may be able to find a traineeship with a specialist lighting company. You could also look for experience in the following settings:

• lighting equipment hire companies
• work placements (competition for these is very strong)
• theatres or concert venues
• amateur theatre
• student or community film projects.

To be a lighting technician you should have:

• good practical and numeracy skills
• knowledge of electrical systems and electronics
• good communication and people skills
• the ability to work well in a team
• creativity and problem-solving skills
• the ability to take instructions
• awareness of health and safety
• physical stamina and a head for heights
• willingness to work long and irregular hours when necessary.

tv presenter

There is no set entry route for becoming a TV presenter. Some presenters move into TV from other areas of the media like journalism or media research and may already have a degree. You may also need a degree or detailed knowledge if you wish to work on a specialised programme such as science, history or property development.

You could still get into TV presenting without a degree if you have the right kind of skills and personality. Competitions for jobs is very strong so you will also need determination, persistence and the ability to network and promote yourself.

You should try to get as much experience as possible of presenting, to develop an understanding of the way the industry works and to start building up a network of contacts. You could do this through:

• community, hospital or student radio
• work placements.
• You would develop your presenting skills on the job. You may also get some formal training at the start of your career, in skills like using an autocue or interviewing techniques. With experience you could also choose to move into other areas within the media industry such as production.
  Visit the Creative Skillset website to search for relevant media courses, including short courses for new and experienced TV presenters. You can also find information on this site about networking and job hunting in the creative and media industries.
  
  
  makeup artist
  You would normally start in your career by gaining at least a Level 2 qualification in media make-up or an equivalent qualification. There are a wide range of courses available through colleges and private training providers.
  Examples of relevant courses include:
  • Level 2 Diploma in Hair, Photographic and Media Make-up
  • Level 2/3 Diploma in Hair and Media Make-up
  • Level 3 Diploma in Theatrical, Special Effects, Hair and Media Make-up
  • Level 3 Diploma in Fashion, Theatre and Media Make-up.
  Some universities offer foundation degrees and degrees in media make-up and related subjects. To do a degree you will usually need five GCSEs (A-C) including maths, English and science, plus three A levels. You should check with universities for exact entry requirements as other qualifications may also be accepted.

You would learn and develop your skills on the job by helping experienced make-up artists.

You may be able to find trainee positions at the start of your career or places on new entrant training schemes. These are sometimes run by:

• broadcasters
• regional screen agencies
• media training organisations.

Competition for places on schemes like this is very strong. You will need to show genuine commitment and some relevant work experience. The Creative Skillset website has a trainee placement scheme for those who already have a little experience in the industry. There is eligibility criteria. See the Creative Skillset website for more information.

• Creative Skillset 

Some broadcasting companies offer trainee schemes and other ways of getting industry experience. Some schemes only recruit at certain times of the year and competition can be very strong. See their websites for more information, eligibility criteria and availability.

• BBC  
• ITV  
• Channel 4 

tv or film producer

You will develop your knowledge on the job, learning from more experienced producers as you gain experience.

Once you are working as a producer, you could take short courses in production skills such as script analysis, pitching ideas, legal issues, scheduling and raising finance. You may be able to find training and development offered by organisations such as:

• Indie Training Fund (ITF)
• film schools
• private training companies
• regional screen agencies.
• The Production Guild.

See Creative Skillset’s website to search for relevant short courses, and for information about how to fund your training as a freelance producer.

To be a TV or film producer, you will need:

• solid experience in the film or TV industry
• a good knowledge of the production process
• excellent communication and people skills
• creativity and vision
• good presentation and negotiation skills
• leadership and management ability
• good planning and organisational skills
• financial skills and budget awareness
• confidence, assertiveness and motivation.

15) methods of reqruitment

1) Job centres -
job centre plus is a brand used by the UK for its working age support service in the UK. Jobcentre Plus is an executive agency of the Department for Work and Pensions of the government of the United Kingdom. The agency provides services primarily to those attempting to find employment and to those requiring the issuing of a financial provision due to, in the first case lack of employment, of an allowance to assist with the living costs and expenditure intrinsic to the effort to achieve employment

2) internet -
Nearly every company will have their own website. When company's want to recruit new employees they will advertise the job that is needed on their website. this will allow members of the public who are looking for a job to apply for the job online and if successful they individuals may get selected to go and have an interview with the company. online there are job websites such as indeed.com. these websites allow different company's to advertise jobs which any member of the public can look at and apply.

3) trade fairs -
A trade fair  is an exhibition organized so that companies in a specific industry can showcase and demonstrate their latest products, service, study activities of rivals and examine recent market trends and opportunities. In contrast to consumer fairs, only some trade fairs are open to the public, while others can only be attended by company representatives and members of the press therefore trade shows are classified as either "Public" or "Trade Only". A few fairs are hybrids of the two; one example is the Frankfurt Book Fair which is trade-only for its first three days and open to the general public on its final two days. They are held on a continuing basis in virtually all markets and normally attract companies from around the globe. For example, in the U.S. there are currently over 10,000  trade shows held every year, and several online directories have been established to help organizers, attendees, and marketers identify appropriate events.

4) job advertisement -
Advertisements are the most common form of external recruitment. They can be found in many places (local and national newspapers, notice boards, recruitment fairs) and should include some important information relating to the job (job title, pay package, location, job description, how to apply-either by CV or application form). Where a business chooses to advertise will depend on the cost of advertising and the coverage needed (i.e. how far away people will consider applying for the job.

14) developing technologies

digital television
digital TV is a way of receiving your television signal in a digital format. This allows TV companies to broadcast better quality sound, a higher definition picture and a wider range of channels than ever before. to use a digital television you have to subscribe to a broadband such as sky or virgin media. when you subscribe to a broadband you will then have to pay a monthly rate to be able to watch all the television channels.
pros

• Offers many more channels compared to terrestrial analogue
• Higher quality images, especially HD television
• Can display high quality pictures from Blu-Ray and games consoles plugged into the tv.
• Higher quality sound

cons

• will not work with old anolouge televisions unless a new set top box is bought.
• switching over to digital from analogue will mean spending money
• with so many channels to fill, the quality of the programs

analogue television

Analogue television is the analogue transmission that involves the broadcasting of encoded analogue audi and analogue video signal one in which the information to be transmitted, the brightness and colors of the points in the image and the sound waves of the audio signal are represented by continuous variations of some aspect of the signal, its amplitude, frequency or phase. analogue television is not around anymore due to the switch over of digital television.

pros

we have moved on to a better technology giving the viewers at home better television viewing.

satelite

Satellite television is television programming delivered by the means of communications satellite and received by an outdoor antenna, usually a parabolic reflector generally referred to as a satellite dish, and as far as household usage is concerned, a satellite receiver either in the form of an external set-top box or a satellite tuner module built into a television set. Satellite television tuners are also available as a card or a USB peripheral to be attached to a personal computer. In many areas of the world satellite television provides a wide range of channels and services, often to areas that are not serviced by terrestrial or cable providers.

13) contracts table

11) viacom subsidiaries

9) personal attributes

8) slumdog millionaire case study

Slumdog Millionaire: Global Film?

The Media Student’s Book: p.163

1. Explain where the storyline for the film came from. Give examples.

The story begins with Vikram Swarup,  an Indian diplomat in London and author of the source novel, Q&A. He appears to have drawn on two specific new stories – one in the UK and one in India. A retired army officer in the UK was convicted of fraud after Millionaire (WWTBAM). Since the show was also massively popular in India, Swarup then thought, who would be the least likely winner of the top prize In the Indian version – who might be accused of cheating? A scientist in Delhi experimented by putting a computer only accessible to children in to a poor area of the city. The children quickly learned how to use the computer without any help from adults. From these two stories Swarup constructed the narrative of a young man from the slums who knows the awnsers to the quiz questions because they each refer to something he has experienced in his life. Rather than knowledge he thr0ough education.

2. List the ways in which Simon Beaufoy changed the story. Explain why this was done.

• The central character becomes Muslim and one of thw two brothers from a Mumbai slum. His name is changed to Jamal. In the novel, the character is an orphan brought up in an English clergymans house in Delhi and there is an explanation of why he can speak English and why he has a name that spans Indias three major religions.
• Several of the sub - plots are removed to make the story line clearer.
• The romance element is made more important and runs across the whole storyline. The story would be further tweaked when Danny Boyle came on board as director, but in the final script Boyle would claim that the narrative goal -essentially to bring the childhood sweethearts together - was not American since it downplayed winning the money. Winning the girl seems to have worked with American audiences though.

3. How did Tessa Ross and Christian Colson arrange funding? Why is this significant? Tessa Ross thought that it was essential to be able to use it in the film. When colson secured these rights, he was able to fund the production of the film and then sell the distribution rights of the finished film to pathe in the UK and ireland and France, Warner Bros in North America and other companies in the territories around the world. With the revenue from this scale, Colson could cover the costs of production, but would retain control - meaning that the film would remain a UK production without interference from the Hollywood distributor.

4. Explain the term ‘Bollywood’ 

Bollywood is a relatively recent term . It refers to certain forms of popular cinema made in Hindi - the official language of india understood by about 40 percent of the population, mainly in the north. The capital of Bollywood is Mumbai where around two hundred films with big budgets are made each year, but more films are actually made in the four south indian languages of Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada. These different language cinemas are rather disparagingly known as regional cinemas and this term also covers several smaller production centres using other Indian languages such as Bengali, Marathi, Assamese, etc. A third type of film is sometimes referred to as parallel cinema. There is no hard defenition of a parallel film, but generally it refers to films that are more serious, possibly more realist and/or art orientated. Such films appeal more to the middle class audiences in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore and other major cities. The films could be made in any of indias languages, but are usually in Hindi or English in order to reach the biggest audiences.

5. What was the impact of Warner Bros closing it’s ‘specialist’ film labels on the distribution of Slumdog Millionaire? How was this resolved? (p. 166)

There was every chance that slumdog millionaire would be pushed straight to DVD in North America as a result. Boyle and Colson rushed to Hollywood to try to rescue the film and succeeded in persuading Warner Bros to sell the rights to another studios specialist division, Fox searchlight. Both Boyle and Beaufroy had experienced success with Fox searchlight.

6. Slumdog Millionaire is not a Hollywood film. Explain how it has been caught between Hollywood and Bollywood. (p. 167-170)

7. In your opinion, what made Slumdog Millionaire a successful film? Discuss pre-production, production, distribution and exhibition.

7) sky1 case study

5) BBC purposes

my trip to the BBC

we went to the BBC studios in london. we recieved a tour of the building showing us where everything is filmed and the history of the BBC. we visited an actual studio where the One how is filmed as shown in the picture on the left <---
during the trip we got to experience different activities such as seeing if we have what it takes to become a news presenter and weather man and also we had a go at audio drama which required reading scripts and i got chosen to do all of the sound effects for the short drama that we recored.

3) BBFC

trip to the BBFC
We all went to the BBFC in london soho to recieve a lecture about the BBFC. We had a lady who works for the BBFC to give us the lecture. This consisted of her showing us a power point and explaining what all of the different age ratings mean and how they give films their age ratings. We learnt the different techniques they use to age rate films and specific points in the film they look out for to give it the most suitable age rating possible. We learnt that commonly the BBFC recieve letters of complaints from parents and even children about how they disagree with the age rating that they have given some films.

4) BBC history task

6) employment laws

2)Job Advert

job adverts

 social media editor / social media specialist

Employer: GURU Careers

industry:    Marketing and PR - Advertising Agency, Marketing and PR - Digital Marketing, media - Advertising, media - creative, media - digital media, marketing and PR - Marketing analytics

level:  experienced (non manager)

contract:  permanent

hours:  full time

salary:  up to 25K

company details:

Key responsibilities: 

 In your role as Social Media Editor you will be expected to watch the industry like a hawk, curating, planning and editing content to deliver a killer social media strategy. Joining as the Social Media Editor / Social Media Specialist you will manage all social media channels, building and networking with 3rd party producers. You will also be required to plan a medium to long term social media strategy and work closely with the website’s Editor to ensure that all communication from the brand is in the correct tone of voice and effectively communicating our key message architecture.

work experience and qualifications:

Seeking an experienced Social Media Editor / Social Marketing / Community Manager /Social Networking professional who can demonstrate:

•   Strong knowledge of action sports;
• Experience in a community management or social media role;
• Proven experience of social media syndication;
• A pre-existing network of relevant contacts;
• Top level writing skills.

 personal attributes required:

• passion
• patience
• persistence
• smart
• wise
• depth and breadth of knowledge