definitions and ideas from skillset.org:
- scheduling, script breakdowns and communication with producer regarding budgets and schedules
The Production Manager, as the key person in the Production department, must liaise closely with all other Heads of Department to ensure that productions run smoothly, meet deadlines, and stay within budgets.
- oversee first ADs on drama shoots
Career pathways (typically):
- from 3rd to 2nd to 1st Assistant Director
- Assistant Floor Managers to Floor Managers to Location Managers
- Script Supervisors
- Production Assistants
- Production Accountants
- with the possibility to become: Directors, Line Producers
Knowledge & Skills:
- high communication skills
- good team members
- knowledge of technical processes
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- initiative and problem solving skills;
- diplomacy and sensitivity;
- resourcefulness and the ability to troubleshoot;
- advanced analytical skills;
- budgeting and financial skills;
- excellent verbal and written communication skills;
- precise attention to detail and methodical approach to work;
- excellent organisational abilities;
- ability to conceptualise ideas;
- IT skills, and knowledge of the relevant computer packages;
- current knowledge of the relevant legislation, regulations, and associated procedures, including Copyright, Data Protection, Public Liability, etc. and how to comply with regulatory requirements;
- knowledge of the requirements of the relevant Health and Safety legislation and procedures.
texts:
Film Production Management 101
Production Management for Film & TV
links:
Film Victoria Industry Directory: http://www.filmmelbournedirectory.com/browse/position/189/
notes from the Australian Government Website:
what is new media art:
New media art, as defined by the Australia Council, is a process where new technologies are used by artists to create works that explore new modes of artistic expression. These new technologies include computers, information and communications technology, virtual or immersive environments, or sound engineering. They are the brushes and pens of a new generation of artists.
making art from science (links):
http://www.anat.org.au/
http://www.symbiotica.uwa.edu.au/
http://artsactive.net/en/
http://justinecooper.com/
sound arts:
For many, it refers to sound-based art work (or at least art work where the principal focus is on sound) across the broad gamut of performance, installation and broadcast contexts, which departs from both traditional musical instrumentation and notational methods and frequently employs electronic media. Others may see it as an intersecting space with roots in post-Cageian music practice, or indeed ‘post-phonographic’ music practice, and installation art.
links-
http://www.sounddesign.unimelb.edu.au/site/index1.html
http://www.anat.org.au/2010/06/synchresis/
http://www.liquidarchitecture.org.au/
artists-
Madeleine Flynn
Tim Humphrey
projects-
Clatterbox
Portable Worlds:
links-
http://portableworlds.anat.org.au/firstedition/
http://www.anat.org.au/2010/06/surface-tension/
http://www.anat.org.au/2010/06/media-state/
http://www.anat.org.au/2010/06/pixel-play/
http://www.anat.org.au/2010/06/blast-theory-masterclass-i-like-frank-adelaide/
New Media Art Works
’tissue culture’ project by Oron Catts and Ionat Zurr
http://www.tca.uwa.edu.au/
Australian New Media Artists:
Patricia Piccinini- http://www.patriciapiccinini.net/
John Tonkin- http://www.johnt.org/meniscus/index.html
John McCormack- http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jonmc/art.html
Troy Innocent- http://www.iconica.org/main.htm
Stelarc- http://stelarc.org/_.swf
Arthur Wicks- http://www.artschool.utas.edu.au/pulse/wicks.html
S u z a n n e T r e i s t e r- http://ensemble.va.com.au/verve/art/artists_1.html#suzanne
General links:
http://www.mediaarthistory.org/
http://www.medienkunstnetz.de/themes/overview_of_media_art/
Filed under: media industries 2 | Tags: documentary, PNR, reflection, survey
From filling in the Student Careers Survey I kind of realised the key areas that I am interested in being: documentary, transmedia, editing, producing and experimental works, which kind of run in with transmedia. I found these out through different ways that either related to what I was good at in regards to skills as well as what I enjoyed doing. I think it’s really nice to find a middle ground, sometimes what you are really good at is different from what you really enjoy doing or sometimes they come together, which is nice. In terms of documentary it is something that I know from TV1 and TV2 that I enjoy doing a lot more than drama, even though I enjoy watching drama it is an entirely different story for me when it comes to making, which I have already outlined. When I say transmedia I kind of mean it in a more experimental and not necessarily internet-based I see it as videos, which work and can be appropriated as interactive, participatory environments. Editing and producing are in line with what I have done in previous projects. Producing is one that I know I am good at, yet not sure I enjoy, even though I have strong organisational skills I lack that communicative skills in terms of contacting people, I find this extremely difficult. Editing I really enjoy because it’s like connecting the dots, like inserting meaning into your footage. I find the production side quite grueling, yet I think this is only within the making narrative case.
What I found particularly difficult with the survey was this idea of career goals, because I see the media industry as out of the realms of this idea of a set career, and more as floating careers. I don’t want to be locked into a certain career for the rest of my life, in fact it would be great if I could experience all of the things I enjoy doing. I don’t want to be stuck in a job that I hate, I also want to be doing projects that mean something to me. This is something I really learnt from my MI1 project last semester, in which I realised how important it is for me to take on projects that are ethically responsible, I don’t really want to work in advertising or areas like that as I see it as a bit of selling your soul.
What I want to do now from doing this career survey is to form my PNR around it and something I really would want to do is to get interviews predominantly with females. I think within the media industry it is a different story for females, and I think I would get more out of speaking to women in the industry rather than men. I think following the line of documentary will be relevant to me, and then perhaps I could focus on areas such as producing and editing documentaries as well as experimental takes on documentary. I feel that documentary would be a nice avenue to explore all my interests, yet I would approach it in a different way to how we are approaching it for our seminar group.
So, what I need to do:
1. Figure out exactly what I want to do for my PNR.
2. Look into the history of the area.
3. Write a list of people I would like to interview and then categorise them and draw a hierarchy.
4. Contact proposed groups of people starting from the top to the bottom, with appropriate emails and ways of addressing people.
5. When contacts are approved think of ways to interview each person in terms of questions and perhaps filming or recording the interviews.
Filed under: media industries 2, reflection | Tags: documentary, PNR, transmedia
This post is slightly postponed and should have been written way earlier but I have been horrifically sick so lets start today with possibly what may come to be quite a large blog post. The main thing I want to cover is how shocked I was that the masses still chose television and film and why this is. I want to talk about this as I think it is really interesting that after two and a half years in this media course, where we have covered all aspects of media production that there is still a lack of enthusiasm for transmedia projects. I also find this interesting due to the fact that a lot of media industry 1 projects were on these new media avenues and how film and television are adapting to these environments. To be honest I was really disappointed that everyone was still so determined to get into film and television when more than ever the media industry is an exciting place that is moving in exciting new directions.
I don’t hate film and television
This is the first point I want to make, in fact I love films and television but perhaps my interests lie more in watching than making. Throughout this course I have found narrative film making to be so confined to a set of rules of ‘how a film should be made’ in terms of how it should look and the correct process to go through to get to that finished product. I find this restricting to the way I want to work and maybe perhaps I am wrong about this point, but I find documentary and transmedia projects much more free in terms of creativity because film production, especially what we have covered in this course relies so heavily on technical perfection and getting everything right in terms of executing your pre-production plans. I like projects that open up rather than close in and I find that really rewarding with documentary and the online project we did last semester, where participants decided what direction our project went in. Therefore, in terms of defining my own media practice I really like the idea of projects expanding and morphing as they develop, not closing into an original idea, especially within the production component. Production for me should be more organic, where you have pre-production ideas and a plan but there is the freedom for those ideas to adapt and expand, or perhaps even completely change.
Transmedia
Or new media or whatever term we can use to describe where this media industry is heading or perhaps part of it and I think all of us as media students should be excited because it opens up more opportunities than ever for all of us as we head towards graduation. What excites me about transmedia is that we are the ‘experts’ we grew up on social media sites and we contribute everyday or every couple of days by blogging, everything you post online has the possibility to turn into an online to offline sensation and I think at the very least is a really great starting point in terms of getting your stuff out there. It is exciting also because I feel that you don’t have to start at the bottom in a job that you hate as you slowly work your way up to a job that you may or may not like. I feel like transmedia opportunities start wherever you want them to start, and you don’t need the funding or the money to go with it either. In conjunction I feel that this course has trained us really well in areas that other people would know nothing about, which makes us kind of ‘semi-experts’ in these fields. So when I think of the opportunities and think of all the amazing stuff I have seen online I ask myself why is there not a majority of us interested in this? And what I think is that people have the attitude that it’s not ‘real’ media that people respect, if everyone can do it using a webcam in their bedroom why should I waste your time? What I think of this is that if you make something AMAZING online it will get noticed over all the other stuff, if you put it in the right places. I also think it is so pretentious to think that it is not a worthy part of the industry because more people sit on the internet than watch movies, and more people are watching television online. What I am basically saying here is that the future of media production excites me rather than puts me off and I am excited at all the opportunities that I will encounter when I graduate.
What to take from this
I can obviously see from this my own interests in terms of the direction of my Personal Networking Report in either the fields of documentary or transmedia. So, transmedia documentary? I see these two fields as places that compliment my work ethic and areas that I would really enjoy working in once I leave RMIT.
