job roles and conditions in the creative media industry

There are three types of job roles within the creative media industry. Management, creative, and technical. The first is management. Management oversee the commercial aspects of the industry such as collecting royalty payments, sales and marketing, planning schedules, or commissioning freelance staff. One of the job roles included in production and management is a producer. The producer leads the process of turning ideas or scripts into finished work with the potential for commercial success. Producers initiate a project, assemble the creative team and oversee the entire production, dealing with financial, creative and practical issues. Producers have many tasks before a production starts they might come up with an idea for a programme or film, or select a script, discuss projects with financial backers to raise money for the production, commission a writer, secure the rights to a novel or screenplay, hire key members of the team such as a director and editor, find locations for filming, draw up shooting schedules, approve the final script and budget. Then throughout a production they will supervise the progress of filming, approve script changes, monitor the budget, oversee health and safety in accordance with regulations and resolve any problems that arise. Then once the production is complete, the producer will supervise post production work such as the editing and help plan the marketing for the finished production. Since a producer has a variety of tasks they have to complete, they need to have certain attributes such as being creative, an excellent communicator, be decisive, a leader and a negotiator, well organised, able to juggle priorities and be able to work well under pressure.