Working Patterns

The TV and film industries require a lot of different job roles and working patterns such as Shift work, fixed term, Freelance, office hours, irregular patterns, piece work, voluntary work and hourly rate.


The TV and film industries require a lot of different job roles and working patterns such as Shift work, fixed term, Freelance, office hours, irregular patterns, piece work, voluntary work and hourly rate. Shift work involves working for a number of hours at a particular time of the day to ensure that a job is covered for at least 24 hours. This can be working from early morning until afternoon, or late afternoon till late evening or throughout the night (Irregular patterns).

 
A fixed term employment has a start and finish date to it and it finishes automatically when a task is completed. It does not involve a contract with a student or trainee on a work-experience, apprenticeship or an agency. However it does involve having an employment contract with a company covering for a maternity leave for up to 6 months.

 
Freelance workers are self-employed and are hired to work for different companies on a particular assignment so they are not employed by any employers. This involves hiring themselves out to various employers for a particular job or project. The majority of workers are freelance workers and they also tend to be men due to them being muscular and flexible and have the energy to work from one company to the other. Freelance workers have no fixed income or benefits, they also don't work for long periods of time and they have to be flexible and can make lots of contacts out of freelance work.

Office hours is when you work for a company or an organization from 1 – 5. It is normally people who work for a TV company that work office hours.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Voluntary work is an unpaid job, it is common for media graduates to start out and get some experience in the industry. In the end, in might result to being offered a job in the organization or company.
Hourly rate workers are simply workers that get paid by the number of hours that they work.