Assignment 2: Criteria & L.O.

Link: https://qualifications.pearson.com/content/dam/pdf/BTEC-Nationals/Creative-Media-Production/2010/Specification/Unit_8_Understanding_the_Television_and_Film_Industries.pdf

This assignment should cover the following:

1. Know about ownership and funding in the television and film industries.
2. Understand developing technologies in the television and film industries.
3. Be able to prepare personal career development material.

Ownership and funding in the television and film industries

Ownership: public service; commercial; private; corporate; independent companies; global companies; vertical and horizontal integration; monopoly 

Funding: license fee; subscription; pay per view; sponsorship; advertising; product placement; private capital; financial aid; development funds

Understand developing technologies in the television and film industries

Developing technologies: eg satellite, cable, analogue, digital, film-based, interactive, internet, high definition, consumer products, streaming content, on-demand viewing, digital recorders, pay per view

Be able to prepare personal career development material

Methods of recruitment: 

• national press; an organization for journalists and others professionally engaged in the production and dissemination of news.
• trade press; work within a trade journal or professional magazine (and colloquially or disparagingly a trade rag), is a magazine whose target audience is people who work in a particular trade or industry.
• internet; the world-wide web offers an abundance of opportunities. 
• word of mouth; spoken communication as a means of transferring and learning new information.
• personal contacts; emails, phone numbers and other means to get into contact or negotiations with those within the industry
• internal promotion; being promoted within the field you work in and qualify for, to move up the career ladder so to speak
• networking; interact with others to exchange information and develop professional or social contacts
• trade fairs; attend these exhibitions from various media industrial organisations in order to make contacts and perhaps form a better networking system.

Skills and qualifications: 

• education and training, eg full-time, part-time, Level 2, Level 3, graduate; 
• skills analysis (personal skills, technological skills, training needs, personal development plan); 
• sources of information, eg Sector Skills Councils, trade unions, careers services 

Transferable skills: 

• personal attributes, eg knowledge and skills, commitment, efficiency, reliability, punctuality, 
• self-presentation; 
• functional skills (ICT, Mathematics, English) 

Presentation for employment: 

• portfolio; 
• showreel; 
• personal website; 
• curriculum vitae (CV); 
• application letters; 
• interviewing skills; 
• presentation skills; 
• self-presentation (linguistic codes, dress codes, interpersonal skills); 
• references 

Career development: 

• training on the job; 
• continuing professional development; 
• self-training