2. Industry Overview
The Television & Film Industry is a large sector of the media that
generates Billions of capital worldwide.
The Film Industry ALONE in 2011 had a global theatrical market
of 32.6 billion dollars and the UK Film Worldwide gross was 5.6
Billion Dollars, taking a 17.2 % share of the overall box office for
that year.
Within the Film & Television sectors, there are thousands of
different job roles, more than you might initially think…

3. Job Roles within the Industry
The are literally thousands of Job roles within the TV & Film
industry, each job role falls into a specific category.
 Production & Management
 Creative
 Technical
These 3 categories cover all the job roles that are part of the TV
& Film industry

4. Production / Management Job
Roles
This job category is full of job roles of people who are generally
in charge, control and organise a wide range of different duties
and have many responsibilities to ensure that the
Film/Television program/show is filmed, budgeted and planned
correctly.
Job Roles include:
 Producer
 Location Producer
 Researcher
 Head of Finance/Audience/etc
 Production Manager

5. Production Manager
Reporting to the film's producer, this person supervises the budget,
hires the crew, approves purchase orders & time cards, and generally
makes sure all departments are doing their respective jobs within the
parameters of the budget.
They assist Producers to Interpret and realise the Directors vision, both
financially and logistically. Production Managers may be employed by
production companies, Television broadcasters, or work on a Freelance
basis.
Production Managers prepare production schedules or script
breakdowns to confirm that sufficient time has been allocated for all the
aspects of the production process and to verify the Producers budgets
and schedules, as well as how many and which actors, what locations
and each crew and equipment is needed on each day.

6. Creative Job Roles
Creative Job Roles fall into the category of a job that is based
around thinking; this generally includes jobs that create and
make things. Basically any role that allows you to have the
creative or artistic vision or input to the overall product.
Job Roles include:
 Screen writer
 Director
 Art Director
 Set designer
 Editor

7. Director
A film director's main responsibilities are to be the creative co-
ordinator of the actors and the film crew. As a Director, they
control visional aspects of the artistic style and guide the
technical crew as well as all the actors.
A Director creates a vision for how they think the film should
look and what is best and then make that vision come to
life. They also direct what tone it should have, the overall feel
and what an audience should gain from the cinematic
experience.

8. Technical Job Roles
Technical Job Roles revolve around the use of equipment on
and off of set during the production and post production of the
Film or TV production
 Camera Operator
 Gaffer
 Lighting assistant
 ADR recordist
 Broadcast engineer
 Editor

9. Editor
The Main role of an editor is to ensure that a film flows from the
beginning to the end. The Editor will have to edit each shot
carefully so that when all shots are edited they fit into a series of
scenes that the audience will enjoy watching.
Editors are employed on a freelance basis by producers. They
are required to work long hours under great pressure. Editors
work closely with the director before shooting begins in order to
decide how screenplay can be maximised. Once all scenes
have been edited, a directors cut will be created. This will then
be shown to the producer who will share their opinions on the
cut. Once the changes have been made to the directors cut, the
final cut will be produced.

10. Freelance working
Working in the TV & Film Industry is very different to that to
other kinds of jobs. A high proportion of jobs in film & TV are
short term, freelance contracts.
Freelance generally refers to how a person in the industry has
been hired to do their specified task/job and are not attached to
the production company. A Freelance contract is where a
business employs a self employed individual who works as a
‘Freelancer’. They work for businesses on a temporary basis as
they are employed by business/production company for a
specific task, job or production project. Freelancers are able to
benefit from working on a variety of different projects, enabling
them to broaden their portfolio of work.

11. Working Conditions
Freelancers work on short term contracts, averagely lasting for 3
months, but the contracts are so varied it could even only last a
few weeks.
The Hours a Freelance worker can have very irregular hours of
work which can be both benefit and a drawback. There are
good rates of pay available, and the freedom to not be tied down
to one contract. However, because the work is short term, it’s an
unreliable source of income and it can be tricky for a freelance
worker to make a steady living.

12. Is it worth it?
Freelance work can be difficult. There can be many times where
a freelancer has no work for an extended period of time.
Freelance Workers generally have to have a contingency plan
for when they don’t have any work contracts.
I believe that freelance work is more beneficial than being
contracted to a production company. It means that freelance
workers can vary the jobs that they have, the hours they work
and have a lot of different opportunities.