Job Roles in the Film Industry

Introduction
Jobs in the media can be divided into two sections of creative and non-creative. Creative jobs you can get in
the media is:

• Creative
• Editorial
• Technical
• Research
• Financial
• Organisational
• Administrative

This PowerPoint will provide you information about each of the headings above and explain the importance
of their job roles in the media industry and how important it is today.
Creative
The creative media sector has a wide range of industries, each overlapping each other with large amounts of people
employed in roles that cover multiple industries. These industries include; television, film, radio, interactive media,
computer games development, photo imaging, press, marketing and advertising.

Creative job rules:

• Director
• Casting
• Camera
• Music
• Props
• Lighting
• Costume
Technical
Technical roles in the media industry cover the more strict and order based roles in production of media products. This
can range from jobs that are more technical during pre production (financing, accounting), production (boom and camera
operators) and post production (sound mixer and editor)

Technical jobs in this filed:

• Camera
• Lighting
• Post production
• Studio and broadcast technology
• Post production sound

Technical jobs also consist of ensuring the necessary technology is set up

correctly. For example, making sure camera, lighting, and the sound is set
up correctly.
Editorial
An editorial, leading article or leader is an article written by the senior editorial people or publisher of a
newspaper, magazine, or any other written document, often unsigned. Many newspapers publish their editorials
without the name of the leader writer.

Editorial jobs in this field:

• Publishing
• Film: sound editor and visual effects
• Music

Editorial refers to editing which is also the process of selecting written visual
Marketing
Marketing refers to activities a company undertakes to promote the buying or selling of a product or service.
Marketing includes advertising, selling, and delivering products to consumers or other businesses. Some
marketing is done by affiliates on behalf of a company.

• Social Media Marketing

• Email Marketing
• Brand Management
• Content Marketing and Copywriting
• Product Marketing.
• Marketing Analysis and Growth
Marketing.
• PR/Communications.
• Event Marketing
Administrative
Administration includes the management or performance of
different types of business and make major decisions.
Administration in the universal process or organising people and
rescores.

Job roles in administrative:

• Accounts
• Casting
• Health & Safety
• Locations
• Transport
• Catering
Managerial
A management job is when we get a group of people together to effectively accomplish a
certain set of goals and objective. This is important to many organizations because they make
sure that organizing, directors and staffing.

Different type of managerial jobs:

• Financial controller
• Catering crew
• Exclusive producer
• Casting director/ assistant and distributors.

A typical day in management can include organising, attending meetings and ensuring all
workers are completing all their jobs correctly in high performance.
 Legal

• Before directors can any sort of film production legal matters must be taken care
of. This will include copyright and rights of the cast crew

The directors and producers must copyright the film so that they can have all the rights to
their film.
 Financial
Finance is all about saving money and managing money which helps lending money to
other people. Some of the key concepts of finance is mainly money and time.

Job roles to do with finance:

• Accounts
• Distribution
• Publicity skills

When dealing with finance there is also admirative chores which is dealing with clients
records and files.

Some of the key responsibilities of working in finance is being in charge of bill

payments which will help clients to find amazing business ideas.