You will need to produce information on the following subjects and print it for your folder (industry section)
Radio:
NBC-International
Mercury FM-Local
Classic FM-National
BBC Radio 1-National
BBC Radio 2-National
BBC Radio 3-National
BBC Radio 4-National
BBC Radio 6-Digital
BBC Radio 7-Digital
Five Live-National
Virgin- National
XFM-National
Surrey and Sussex-local
Newspaper:
The Times-National
The Guardian-National
The Daily Mirror-National
The Sun-National
The News of the World-National
The Daily Mail-National
The Daily Express-National
The Observer-National
Crawley Observer-Local
Crawley News-Local
West Sussex Gazette-Local
West Sussex County Times-Local
TV:
BBC-National
ITV-National
Channel 4-National
Five-National
Sky One-National
Virgin1-National
David-National
CBBC Channel-National
CITV-National
Disney Channel-National
Cable Channels-National
NBC-International
· What are the major commercial companies in each Industry? (print copies for your folder)
· What types of jobs can you apply for and where could these jobs possibly lead?
i.e. Film (runner) to Film (Camera Person) to Film (Producer) to Film (Director)
Art and Design, Camera operating, Hair and Make-up, Journalisim, Lighting, Performers, Production, Sound, Studio, Broadcasting Technology and First Jobs in TV.
· What type of skills would you need, to apply for a job in each of your chosen industries?
The best skills possible in every field like Journalisim, Camera work, Writing Drama, Editing and Programming.
· Can you find a job or some work experience that is related to your industry of choice? (print a copy for your folder)
Job Profile:
Broadcasting Journalist
Camera Operator (PSC TV)
Camera Operator (Studio and OB)
Boom Operator
Good IT Skills
4. Write up your notes into three mini reports (min 150 words). Each report should contain details of the following.
· Historical Origins and developments within the industry
The origin s of mechanical television can be traced back to the discovery of the photoconductivity of the element Selenium by Willoughby Smith in 1873, the invention of a scanning disk by Paul Gottlieb Nipkow in 1884 and John Logie Baird's demonstartion of televised moving images in 1926. On March 25, 1925, Scottish inventor John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstartion of televised Silhouette and duotone images in motion, at Selfridge's department Store in London.
David Sarnoff was the leader of NBC, born in a small village of Belarus, Sarnoff came to America as a young boy and began selling newspapers to suport his family.
He soon ran a whole newsstand, and then be began working in the telegraph business. As a young man, he famously claimed that he was a hero telegraph operator who kept in touch with operators aboard the Titanic on the night the ship sank.
But soon sarnoff began to move onto bigger and better things a few years later, he eventually leaped his way to Radio and then into TV.
He began buying up other companies like General Electric, American Marconi and many others, placing himself near decision makers
so that he was able to grab a leadership position at a start-up radio network when that business model first took off. When TV was developed in 1926, he pulled the same trick.
· Key companies or industry leaders (a range of examples)
BBC:
The funding of the BBC is a multinational company that gets funds from the people who pay for their licences and they don't need to broadcast adverts from the outside, but they do advertise their own programmes from within.
ITV:
The ITV channel (Independent Television), is a large national company, which depends on it's advertising for it's income, the adverts are shown between programmes.
NBC:
The NBC, also known as the National Broadcasting Company, is an American television network and former radio network, it's funding comes from the same source as ITV, advertising American products.
· How individuals can get into the industry, i.e. Qualifications needed etc.
Although six major studios produce most of the motion pictures released in the United States, many small companies are used as contractors throughout the process. Most motion picture and video establishments employ fewer than 5 workers. Many additional individuals work in the motion picture and video industries on a freelance, contract, or part-time basis, but accurate statistics on their numbers are not available. Competition for these jobs is intense, and many people are unable to earn a living solely from freelance work. The workforce of this industry is much younger than most, with 54 percent of employees being 34 or younger. In addition 13 percent of employees are aged 16 to 20 compared with only 4 percent of employees in that age group in all industries (table 1).
Hours. Unusual hours are normal in this industry, with 22 percent of workers having part-time schedules and 14 percent having variable schedules. In 2008, workers averaged 29.6 hours per week.
Basically it's almost impossible to get a job in the Film and Television Industries due to stiff competion for very few jobs and very few talented people are employed.
· Your own interest and evaluation of your chosen industry
Newspaper: The Crawley Observer
My interest in it would be what happens in Crawley like the news on what the council, the community and the other neighbourhoods of Crawley had been up to, what's happening in the entertainment section and it has all the what, why, where, when, who and how questions being answered.
My evaluation on the Crawley Observer would be that it's the best local news in the West Sussex district, the photographs of the Crawley Observer are obivously computer generated and printed off so they won't waste more ink then they usually do when using old fashion printers.
Unlike the other newspapers like the Times, the Daily Mail, the Daily Mirror and the News of the World, the Crawley Observer is full of truthful facts and reasonable oppotunities in the entertainment, sales, job search and sport sections.
