Task 1 - Independent Research Tasks

Working Freelance In The Creative Media Sector

Explanations: Freelance Work In The Media Sector:

Freelance workers are mostly self-employed workers who will usually work for a certain type of company for a set amount of time, this time is usually dependent on the work that is needed to be done and how quickly the work is completed. Also freelance workers can be very profitable depending on what type of job you work on.

Additional terms for this would be independent contractor, the term freelancing is the most common in the culture and creative media industries. There are also many fields that the freelancers can get contracts and these include journalism, publishing, film making, screenwriting etc. Working freelance with the creative media industry is challenging, you’re working days should be standard working hours, for example like 5-50 would be good and has been found that many freelancers can get burned out when working in different hours and this can be obviously affect some of your income and could even be seen and removed from a contract. It is said that the most important part of working freelance is getting that first process right and you should be able to sort out your own time, money and bills before doing anything beforehand. Also you need to stay on top of these or else you might have some sort of trouble along the way, it should be also said that you should organize your files properly and by that giving a clear concise labels so you can find work easily and distribute your work to others, else your risk is wasting time trying to find previous work which could have been found by a simple stamp or label.

When you are getting into freelance work you should provide a strong profile background this means that having your very own website would be one where people can check out your work and become more noticeable and outstanding to other participants, you should also offer potential clients in which many ways to contact you such as email, mobile, letter etc. it would also be a good idea to get into social media which nowadays are really popular and more and more people use them a lot. With that you could be able to sell yourself online which more and more people will notice your work. And if you clients likes what they see that would be likely to recommend you to other potential clients and even re-hire you. You want work coming in as you are finishing whilst doing current projects so you could be able to keep up with work and earn more money for bills and general source of living expenses.

There can be many ways for distractions in the freelance work, especially within the media sector, if you worked for a games designer company for example you might like to play video games in general in your spare time, playing video games is great but this should be done after you have completed and done your work on that day. This can be said about other media sectors as well like as in the music sector or art you might enjoy drawing but if it's not relevant to your work then you should probably put it off until you have time to do it. There are three types of jobs within the media sector these are creative, technical management and management. These management could be put to the commercial side of the sector such as collecting marketing sales and even commissioning freelance workers. The second is within the creative media sector, this is usually jobs like directors in the studio who oversee production of films and television shows, this can involve working closely with the producers to discuss budgeting or commissioning a script writer. The technical side of the production might be stitching together raw data from a television show and production and working with sound designers and the producers can get things right by editing and this would take more time than the actually filming video process and will depend on the type of production.

The payment transaction within the freelance industry is usually much more than a usually average paying employee, usually because the freelancer needs is a specialist within his field and will work you set for him. This also involves working and searching for specific creative jobs which you enjoy doing and would want to work within the freelance industry. Because of the job types that are available you can usually get a lot of experience as you will always be working on new projects and gaining and learning new or current skills to become more known to your chosen type of project.

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Above you can see different types of working freelancers that shows small positions and larger positions, within the creative media sector is good to start of low and work your way up within the freelancing and finding opportunities which can lead to better work within the creative media industry and shows how you could evolve and improve yourself to be a better worker to work in higher specialist brands.

A large result is shown of the creative work freelancer and this can be mostly found in the UK and all of the other working freelancers within the UK are working in London and that can be surprising on finding freelancers more popular around the UK.

Since the year 2004 the computer video games work force size has been declining and decreasing, the biggest occupation groups working within the technical fields of art and design however the largest working force group can be found within the around the UK with the exact location of London. But freelance workers within the computer video games industry has been seen and risen since 2010 but in 2009 the freelance work force had an average of 200 to 250+ freelancers. In 2012 that statistic massively increase around to 700 to 800 plus. With that in the field I want to go into the statistics seemingly a little turbulent on where you could end up working and probably depends on where you live as well and the area and the specialty that you have to require.

You can see that there is a lot of factors in the freelance work in the creative sector and there are so many specialist jobs and locations for you to work in and with that you might actually be quite hard to specialize in just one field and you would probably be better of having many different range of skills equipped with you instead of being just good at one thing is a lot more better to be versatile. Getting work within the creative media industry won't be too difficult as long as you put a lot of effort and time to show the people your work and what you could do to stand out to others. It's also good to make a really good first impression and have good communications with others so that can lead to having connections with people in the industry and with that people might recommend you to their very own companies and above all that your reputation is very important as it is a key which shows you can get the job done in a good standard but shows bad reputation with attitude. 

Examples Of Freelance Jobs In The Creative Media Industry

Associate Producer: Television

The role of an associate producer is basically story telling, an associate producer should be able to work with others and control the room and be having multiple skills within the job description. You should also have an editorial production and writing skills and they should be confident with the skill set that is shown. It should also be noted that the associate producers take complex subjects and write them to be more understanding for the general audience when the viewers have a better and good understanding of the subject they will be much more excited with the information that's passed through and received. An associate producer should also assist the executive producer, co-producer and the main producer with that in their labor. This is mainly the things that is likely raising the money for financing the productions and supervising the different types of stages in the production process.

Associate producers should be able to act well with them being under pressure and keep their time management up to a good standard. They should also be able to plan with the certain productions with the different members of the team and whilst also motivating each individual team members throughout of the skills you need to communicate, this is probably the highest of them all by being able to talk to your team and communicated with one another like with the producers, co-producer etc.

And the salary of the associate producers seem to have the range from around £20,000 to £90,000 a year depending on the course, but again this would all depend on where you are working and what type of area you are working in. For instance an associate producer that would live in the UK who works for the news radio somewhere famous and popular in the UK like BBC will earn £40,000 a year average, however this can go higher and raise to £50,000 a year. This again can really depend on the area and your work ethic for the departmental heads, this can go even high as £70,000 with benefits that's included.

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The contracts for the associate producers job can be vary, but seeming can be fixed contracts for a year or maybe even more. With this having benefits such as holidays, off sick, health insurances. The hours range from 40 to 60 hours although having quite a lot of weeks are more to do with crunch time than rather having normal hours. With that this shows when a project is coming to an end and would have pretty much be insanely doing work at a rapid pace and you need to finish up on work before the project ends so you would have to put in extra hours on doing that. Deadlines on this can also depend on the contracts this can usually be discussed with you before you sign a major contract.

Freelance Journalism

Working in the freelances about journalism can be tough specially without the right contacts, it can involve pitching your ideas around a lot then trying to cover a story about it, saying maybe about the news on who cannot get any information. You will also have to be the first on the scene for breaking news so you can sell your story to newspapers around your area. You will also have to require good people skills when working in journalism as you will be working with people with a lot of interview speaking and naturally through your job you will have to build good contacts to keep a good flowing and consistent of the news and always wanting to be at a breaking news event to cover on what is going on.

Investigation is another good skill to require on freelance journalism, you will have to investigate potential stories and leads for a story headline and work with others to get the right story. You will also be required to attend press conferences and with a range of news events to cover that days of news. You will find yourself working online a lot and having a worldwide network connection at all times is vital as well as a mobile phone device. 

Writing is one of the main key skills you will require also, with a good writing skills you will not be able to keep potential readers engaged on your story and people will quickly lose interest so you will need to have an open mind on wanting more people to keep reading about your stories that you are writing. With that you will also have to be punctual and make sure that your writing makes sense from the audiences point of view.

Payment about the journalism freelance depends really on the amount of work is produced yourself. People who buys huge amount of newspapers such as the daily mail, guardian etc. They pay upwards of £700 to £800 for a minimum 400 to 500 words article and magazines range anywhere around £200 to £600. You can even make more amount to £1000 plus with the US magazines, but you should also always check that if you chosen the publication that takes freelance work.

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A typical day for a freelancer journalist is mostly finding most top breaking news stories that people around the world will know about and bring it out there as soon as possible and then write up on that, once your publication is complete you should try and sell it as soon as possible as well, while the story is still new. Freelance journalists works for long hours often through the whole morning and night or at later times than a typical job, due to the environment they work in when they are trying to capture the main headline news. You always have to be look out for stories and even if it's like really late, they want that rumor news to be real for example.

Freelance Photographer

A freelance photographer involves exactly what you think it would by taking pictures then trying to sell them to the highest bidder on wanting a pricey shot, many freelance photographers like to sell to newspapers due to it being expensive and them wanting the story or news to be out. In order to give them a more interesting story newspapers tend to buy images that might relate to their story. Freelance photography is easy to get into, anyone can try it out but the only problem with this is that the market might be over saturated in your area and so you have to consider the amount of work that is available to you and what will suit you will. Agencies might also be interested in hiring many freelance photographers for them to do some work, this might be taking photos for professional modelling or trying to get images on certain celebrities etc. 

When people are working in a freelance photography you will need to be motivated on what you do, you can often lose out on work to other people so you might have to try hard to find new jobs and work hard and then maybe eventually you will make a name for yourself. And with this work you will be able to come to you a lot more easier and you should also be aware of your organisation skills because you will often have to work multiple jobs by multitasking and you don't really want to be mixed up with that, so it's important to organised your things in order to have efficient work. There is also a lot of training that is included and available for photography skills, this could be in a form of a qualification in school, college with a BTEC course and maybe even a degree in university. You will need these qualifications to have advance skills so you will be open and available on learning new skills along the way and practice will be good even your skills are on point, there is always room to improve on things so you can have things in good order and have a pack of skills that's learnt to show in the freelancing photography.

Overall with the freelance photography the average income of this around the united kingdom is £10,000 to £60,000, the average income varies by the area or city and your reputation with more repetition that you have you could be landing and getting a much more higher paying job and with it just being more than an average pay income.

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An average and usual day for a freelancer photographer is that you would be checking what jobs that are currently working on and start your work from that point and the more immediate and important jobs should be done as soon as possible whilst also jobs with a longer time limit should be the least of your worries, then you would have to consider on what type of day you might be looking at and would be interested. You will also need to go out and rent a studio for your type of work space for the day, then your work will involve going out and taking many photos for maybe a local paper you want to sell to for their story and sell them for a high price to make some sort of profit.