DUTIES vs. SKILLS

1.What duties and skills are involved in being a god media student?
Duties:

• listening to the teacher
• doing the work and handing it in on time
• respect teacher and classmates
• come equipt to lesson
• make sure attendance is good

Skills:

• good comminication
• need skills for camera work/editing
• need to know how to use blogs write essay's.

2. What is the hierarchy in this school?

• secretaries
• Governors
• Head Teacher
• Deputy Head (Assistant Teacher)
• Head Of Departments (Heads Of Year)
• Teacher/Staff (Support Staff)
• Janitor
• Sixthfrom
• Upper School
• Lower School

We have a hierarchy in the school as we need ot have communication and it shows what people responsibilities are and know what they are doing as the people would mostly like to know what they are doing and it would make the school more organised. (If you scroll down I have put a hierarchy for a studio).

Multi-Camera Production Roles:

• Camera Operator: A camera operator  is a person that operates a film or either a video camera to record a production. The three skills they would have are a good sence of visual composition, perspective and movement. The three duties would be to attend prodution meetings,
  assembling, preparing and setting up equipment prior to filming, which may include tripods, monitors, lighting, cables and leads, and headphones and being time conscious and working quickly.

• Sound Mixer: They are responsible fro recording all sounds on set during recording and mixes sounds/recording's together. Their three skills would be to have excellent aural skills, ability to give and to accept direction also precise attention to detail. Their three duties would be he or she is also charged with maintaining log sheets for each roll of tape, sound mixer must make script notes to be used in case of reshooting (for continuity) and keep lists of wild tracks and sound effects that will be recorded later and they should also direct the boom operator and design the placement of microphones and recording techniques for each shot.

• Vision Mixing: Vision mixers work with all type of genres of the television programmes, which either are transmitted live, recorded live, pre-recorded in a mutli camera environment in studio's also outside.
  Vision mixers edit programmes live using a variety of transition methods, such as cuts, mixes, wipes, frame manipulation, etc. Some of their skills include them having ability to multitask, precise attention to detail also advanced IT skills. Their duties would be to controlling the vision mixing desk, controling which camera goes on air.

• Directing: is a person who supervises the actors, camera crew, and other staff for a movie, play, television program, or similar production so everyone is organized and everything is ready and organized and everything is going right. Their skills would be to have exceptional artistic vision and creative skills to develop an engaging and original film, they have to also have a commitment to their job and a great passion for what they are doing and also have the ebility to be a strong leader. Their duties would be to write a film script (optional), they should also have or create a vision of how the fillm is going to be when it is finished or either a show too also they have to make the right desicions and choose the right cast to go on.

• Set Designer: the person who designs and constructs the stage set and scenery and also has to see if it would look good through the camera vision also big anough to fit the camer'a in to film. Their skills would be to good eye for decoration and precise attention to detail, a methodical approach to work and ability to work as part of a team. Their duties to perform would be attend all design and product meetings, present your design to the cast and Adhere to all published deadlines.

• Lighting Desk: A lighting control console (also called a lightboard, lighting board, or lighting desk) is an electronic device used in theatrical lighting design to control multiple lights at once or either in studios. Their skills would be to have I.T skills, must be able to keep calm under pressure and exellent communication skills. Their duties would be to must be able to work under pressure, responding to the various demands of the production also  ensure that the correct lighting effects are achieved.

• Floor Manager: is person in charge of running the show from backstage, gives actors cues to enter, handles props, manages the run crew, and is in charge of setting the stage before and after the performance, they also have to be very quite to be a floor manager as they cant speak. Their skills would have to be energetic and self-motivated approach to work, good planning and organisational skills and a good understanding of business and finance. Their duties would be to assisting guests on the show, keeping the director and producer informed of action off-camera and briefing and looking after those involved in the programme.

•  Graphics Generation: is a person who creates graphics for the show either by text or other type of animation by computer, for example for the starting of shows and endings. Thier skills would be to have really good drawing techniques and skills, good computer skils, to be creative. Their duties would be to able to work under pressure, ensure that they have the right type of animation/text to, match the tv programme atmoshphere.

•  VT operator: these are the people that control what goers on the screen to view the audience at home for example if they have a clip to show they have to show the video tape at the right time. Their skills are to have a high level of organisational skills, effective team working skills and diplomacy and sensitivity when working with clients. Their duties would be to record and play back material that has to be shown, show the right tapes.

• Presenter: Someone who presents a broadcast programme, someone who presents a thing or person to someone else, probably the main host in a studio. Their skills would be having to great presentation and communicatin skills, A clear voice, Self-confidence, Improvisation skills. Their duties would be to researching topics and background information for items to be featured on the programme, planning and rehearsing shows, writing, and sometimes memorising, scripts.

My view of a studio hierachy:
Director
Floor Manager
Set Designer
Camera Operator
Sound Mixing
Lighting Desk
VT operator
Vision mixing
Graphics Generation
Presenter