DSS Professional practice Week 2

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Week 2: Researching career routes

Last week you carried out some initial research into five jobs. This
week, we are going to look at career routes for three of them.
1. Choose THREE jobs from your selection last week and carry
out further research into the sort of qualifications and training
you need to do that job.
The media industry is very flexible and there’s often more than
one way to get to a particular position. Look for examples of
different routes to the same job.

Useful websites
Creative Skillset http://creativeskillset.org/

Creative Skillset is a Government

organisation set up to support the
creative industries. Explore the
pages on high end TV, film and TV
and other sectors for lots of advice
and information on jobs and career
routes.

BBC College of Production http://www.bbc.co.uk/academy/en/

This is part of the BBC’s training

site. Try the Journalism, Production
and Work in Broadcast tabs.
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2. Present your research on your website.

There are different ways you could do this: create a new table,
add a further column to last week’s table, or create a graphic
which shows different career routes.
Job role What does that job What sort of Good sources of information (references) Potential
involve? skills do you career routes
need?
Journalist The activity or profession Organisation Nationalcareers.service.gov.uk. Apprenceship
of writing for a skills- 2020. Magazine Journalist | Explore
– trainee
newspaper,magazines,new plan,prioritise Careers | National Careers Service.
s websites or news and multitask In [online] Available at: -univeristy
broadcaster. your role <https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job -journalist –
A news presenter- also self teaching- -profiles/magazine-journalist> [Accessed
known as an anchorman,is by watching and newspaper
15 September 2020].
a person who presents on asking journalist-
air during a news program questions,observ freelance
on the televison, radio or e whats
internet. happening journalist
They may also be a working around you and -broadcaster
journalist, assisting in the use your initiative journalist
collection of news material professionalism-
as well as presenting the listen carefully
news from a remote ,respond quickly
location in the field related to requests,stay
to a particular major news calm and
event. professional at all
times and be
helpful whenever
you can.
Excellent
communication-
Be polite to
clients and
production
partners,pass on
information in a
clear and concise
mannaer, have
excellent written
and oral
communication
Attention to
detail-
The ability to pay
attention to detail
and be thorough
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in everything you
do
Ambition and a
desire to
succeed-
You need to have
the ability to be
persistence and
have
determination
Animatio Animation writers develop Writting – know Apprenticeship
n writer story ideas and present what makes a - internship –
them in the form of scripts. good story and be ScreenSkills. 2020. [online] Available at:
Their scripts are used by able to <https://www.screenskills.com/careers/job assistant writer
storyboard artists and communicate -profiles/animation/development/writer/> – main writer –
directors to work out the emotions, [Accessed 8 September 2020]. freelance
visual art style of a project. characters and
action, write well
Writers either work on an and innovatively,
original idea or contribute express your
to an existing project, such ideas effectively
as a TV programme or in screenplay-
series. They come up with a form
story, and then an outline Knowledge of
of what happens in each animations
scene. Finally, they write screen plays
the full script, including -understand all
dialogue and action. This the features of a
gets pitched to great animation
a producer or animation screenplay, know
film studio. For ongoing how to improve
animated TV series, writers and amend one
can pitch an episode to and how to
producers with a view to format it
being commissioned for Communication
that particular episode skills-listen to
the producer
and director,
share ideas, be
able to
collaborate as
well as work
independently
Freelancing – find
work
opportunities for
yourself, manage
your finances, be
self-motivated
Professionalism-
be receptive to
script notes, be
able to make
changes
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effectively,

You can do this in any way you like but here are some
examples:

Trainee
Apprenticeship
journalist

Sports journalist
University Trainee You could use a
degree journalist flowchart like this to
present your research
– but it needs to be in
more detail, with
references.