How to Get a Job in Television
Build Your Career from Runner to Series Producer
1st Edition
Published on 10. March 2014
304 pages
978-1-4081-2574-8 (ISBN)
Description
'Incredibly timely, practical advice for developing contacts and skills' Jo Taylor, 4Talent Manager at Channel 4
TV is a notoriously difficult industry to get into and progress within. There is no set career path and 70% of applicants rely on contacts to get a foothold. Based on the author's experience as a TV researcher, series producer and recruitment executive, this contemporary guide will help thousands of hopefuls break into TV. It is packed with inside information and advice from training bodies, HR executives, and people working in the industry at every level, including for example:
Conrad Green - the multi award-winning British Executive Producer of American Idol and Dancing With the Stars (US)
Tim Hincks - Chairman of Endemol (makers of Big Brother)
Grant Mansfield - Chairman and MD of RDF Television
Kate Phillips - Head of Development at BBC TVFrom the do's and don'ts of work experience, the role of the researcher, the 'seven stages of CV', pathways to series producer and how to move up the ladder, this is the TV job hunter's bible.
TV is a notoriously difficult industry to get into and progress within. There is no set career path and 70% of applicants rely on contacts to get a foothold. Based on the author's experience as a TV researcher, series producer and recruitment executive, this contemporary guide will help thousands of hopefuls break into TV. It is packed with inside information and advice from training bodies, HR executives, and people working in the industry at every level, including for example:
Conrad Green - the multi award-winning British Executive Producer of American Idol and Dancing With the Stars (US)
Tim Hincks - Chairman of Endemol (makers of Big Brother)
Grant Mansfield - Chairman and MD of RDF Television
Kate Phillips - Head of Development at BBC TVFrom the do's and don'ts of work experience, the role of the researcher, the 'seven stages of CV', pathways to series producer and how to move up the ladder, this is the TV job hunter's bible.
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1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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n/a
ISBN-13
978-1-4081-2574-8 (9781408125748)
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Person
Elsa Sharp is a talent manager at BBC Factual Production. She has worked in the TV industry for 20 years, in production and development and has been a talent manager since 2005.
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Acknowlegements
- Foreword
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1: The bad, the good, the ugly and me
- The bad: TV - are you tough enough?
- The good
- The ugly - how do you plot the right career path?
- And me - how did I get my first break in TV?
- CHAPTER 2: What you need to get started in TV
- Love TV?
- How well do you know yourself?
- What qualities do you need to work in TV?
- What qualitications do you need to work in TV?
- What skills do you need to work in TV?
- Do I need to be able to write to work in TV?
- Do I need to study journalism to work in TV?
- Where should I look for TV training schemes?
- How do I get into TV?
- How do I get work experience?
- What does a production manager do?
- Talent managers/heads of talent
- Useful organisations
- CHAPTER 3: Getting a job
- Do I have to do work experience to get in?
- Network, network, network
- How to apply for a job
- What are the golden rules of interviews?
- CHAPTER 4: First jobs in TV - running and researching
- The runner
- How do I go from runner to researcher?
- What is a researcher?
- How to write a brief
- Setting up shoots
- Working as a shooting researcher
- Libel law
- Defamation
- CHAPTER 5: Plotting a career path
- How do I plot a career path in TV?
- Production versus development
- Assistant producer to series editor - what are the job roles?
- What does an edit assistant producer do?
- What does an edit producer do?
- What does a producer do?
- What does a producer/director do?
- What's the different between a self shooting producer director and self shooting assistant producer?
- How do you go from being a self shooting assistant producer to self shooting producer director?
- What does a multi-camera studio director do?
- What does a series producer do?
- What skills do you need to be a good series producer?
- What does a series editor do?
- How do I choose which genre of programming to work in?
- How easy is it to work abroad?
- CHAPTER 6: The future
- What's the future for TV?
- What training issues does the industry face?
- What next in training?
- What are the next big ideas?
- An A to Z of contributors and their credits
- Useful TV terms
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
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- S
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