Lauren :)
Friday, 9 July 2010
Responsibilities of Employment- task 1
As an employee you have many responsibilities within and with out the work place. I’ve written what I believe to be the ‘Golden Rules of Employment’, which are tailored to a career in filming.
1. Be punctual- turn up for a job on time, with the proper equipment that you need. Otherwise you run the risk of the project falling behind, which in film is a very costly process; this also could portray the image that you are unreliable- which is something that wouldn’t bode well when looking for work.
2. Dress appropriately- in film you have to work very long hours in all types of conditions and environments. Comfortable shoes, trousers and a water proof jacket are highly recommended (constricting clothing is a BIG no-no!). You will most likely have to spend a lot of time standing and could get cold very quickly; so bring winter woollies and wrap up if its winter, it is Scotland after all!
3. Respect co-workers and superiors- working on a film set is a big like being a part of a large family…sometimes they fall out! Communication between departments should be clear and friendly; the project as a whole will benefit from it and a better product will be produced in the end.
4. Get proper training- otherwise you run the risk of putting yourself and colleges at risk. On film sets there are many possible hazards such as cabling and equipment that can be tripped over. He/she should make sure whether he/she has mastered the skills required to perform the task completely. If he/she is not sure about how to handle the work allotted to them they should talk with their superiors and get suggestions and directions in fulfilling the work allotted to him/her. This will help the employee in building good relations with not only their superiors also with their colleagues.
5. Take responsibility of your health and safety- To report any injuries, strains or illnesses you suffer as a result of doing your job- in film this could be especially important as it may mean that you cannot work as you may aggravate the injury further and your employer may need to change the way you work. Also your employer has a legal responsibility for your health and safety so they will need to find a solution to the problem. You should also take reasonable care not to put other people – fellow employees and members of the public – at risk by what you do or don’t do in the course of your work e.g. packing away equipment properly.
6. Participation- Active listening and participation in teams will ensure that all employees become good team players and work with unity towards common goals of the company. Whenever new work is being allotted all the Employees should be eager enough to take the initiative rather than trying to avoid newer tasks. This will facilitate in employees learning new skills and reaching the production goals with much effectiveness.
7. Working Cost effectively- The employees should develop the habit of a cost saving work style and minimise waste with maximised output, also in film it is important that projects stay to budget so the use available resources and take responsibility for equipment. The employees should have sense of responsibility towards the resources of the Organisation. As a part of the Organisation every employee is equally responsible for the long life of the existing resources. Film equipment is very expensive and so if it is broken costs will quickly mount up which will be detrimental to the project as a whole.
8. Creative thinking and suggestion- The employee should always think about bettering the production as a whole, so problem solving and good communication between all aspects of the production can only have a positive impact on the project.
So in conclusion the responsibilities of an employee are as follows: they should personify teamwork, integrity, commitment, and have a positive work ethic.
Employees also have a number or rights within the work place which the employer should enforce to ensure that you are receiving the proper treatment, these are as follows:
1. Receive fair payment for the work that you carry out- this means that as employee you should be receiving the minimum wage for your age group which for me would be (as of August) £3.53 per hour.
2. Be provided with proper training- so that you can carry out the job with confidence and knowing that you have the knowledge to fix things if they go wrong.
3. Be respected by co-workers and superiors- so that you have a positive experience with the company and so that it projects a positive impact of the company.
4. Have sensible working hours- working 19 hour days doesn’t seem like a lot of fun, sure in industries like filming you may be expected to work long hours but nothing that could have a negative impact on your health. Also you should have a lunch break.
5. Good working conditions- In modern studies I learned that shop stewards should be able to fight for better conditions in the work place, for example if the employees would like to have a water dispenser then the shop steward should speak to the boss to see if this is possible so that every one is happy within the workplace.
My conclusions:
In work I would be more serious than I would be if I was out with friends.
In work I would be a bit quieter than if I were out with my friends.
In work I would be very sensible, more so than if I was with friends.
Lauren :)
1. Be punctual- turn up for a job on time, with the proper equipment that you need. Otherwise you run the risk of the project falling behind, which in film is a very costly process; this also could portray the image that you are unreliable- which is something that wouldn’t bode well when looking for work.
2. Dress appropriately- in film you have to work very long hours in all types of conditions and environments. Comfortable shoes, trousers and a water proof jacket are highly recommended (constricting clothing is a BIG no-no!). You will most likely have to spend a lot of time standing and could get cold very quickly; so bring winter woollies and wrap up if its winter, it is Scotland after all!
3. Respect co-workers and superiors- working on a film set is a big like being a part of a large family…sometimes they fall out! Communication between departments should be clear and friendly; the project as a whole will benefit from it and a better product will be produced in the end.
4. Get proper training- otherwise you run the risk of putting yourself and colleges at risk. On film sets there are many possible hazards such as cabling and equipment that can be tripped over. He/she should make sure whether he/she has mastered the skills required to perform the task completely. If he/she is not sure about how to handle the work allotted to them they should talk with their superiors and get suggestions and directions in fulfilling the work allotted to him/her. This will help the employee in building good relations with not only their superiors also with their colleagues.
5. Take responsibility of your health and safety- To report any injuries, strains or illnesses you suffer as a result of doing your job- in film this could be especially important as it may mean that you cannot work as you may aggravate the injury further and your employer may need to change the way you work. Also your employer has a legal responsibility for your health and safety so they will need to find a solution to the problem. You should also take reasonable care not to put other people – fellow employees and members of the public – at risk by what you do or don’t do in the course of your work e.g. packing away equipment properly.
6. Participation- Active listening and participation in teams will ensure that all employees become good team players and work with unity towards common goals of the company. Whenever new work is being allotted all the Employees should be eager enough to take the initiative rather than trying to avoid newer tasks. This will facilitate in employees learning new skills and reaching the production goals with much effectiveness.
7. Working Cost effectively- The employees should develop the habit of a cost saving work style and minimise waste with maximised output, also in film it is important that projects stay to budget so the use available resources and take responsibility for equipment. The employees should have sense of responsibility towards the resources of the Organisation. As a part of the Organisation every employee is equally responsible for the long life of the existing resources. Film equipment is very expensive and so if it is broken costs will quickly mount up which will be detrimental to the project as a whole.
8. Creative thinking and suggestion- The employee should always think about bettering the production as a whole, so problem solving and good communication between all aspects of the production can only have a positive impact on the project.
So in conclusion the responsibilities of an employee are as follows: they should personify teamwork, integrity, commitment, and have a positive work ethic.
Employees also have a number or rights within the work place which the employer should enforce to ensure that you are receiving the proper treatment, these are as follows:
1. Receive fair payment for the work that you carry out- this means that as employee you should be receiving the minimum wage for your age group which for me would be (as of August) £3.53 per hour.
2. Be provided with proper training- so that you can carry out the job with confidence and knowing that you have the knowledge to fix things if they go wrong.
3. Be respected by co-workers and superiors- so that you have a positive experience with the company and so that it projects a positive impact of the company.
4. Have sensible working hours- working 19 hour days doesn’t seem like a lot of fun, sure in industries like filming you may be expected to work long hours but nothing that could have a negative impact on your health. Also you should have a lunch break.
5. Good working conditions- In modern studies I learned that shop stewards should be able to fight for better conditions in the work place, for example if the employees would like to have a water dispenser then the shop steward should speak to the boss to see if this is possible so that every one is happy within the workplace.
My conclusions:
In work I would be more serious than I would be if I was out with friends.
In work I would be a bit quieter than if I were out with my friends.
In work I would be very sensible, more so than if I was with friends.
Lauren :)
Monday, 5 July 2010
Revised- a first light film
I can’t think of a better way to spend your Easter holiday than making a short film…can you?
We had a great wee team- myself, Louie, Sean, Catriona, Roisin, Ruaridh and not forgetting Mikey and Jonathan!
So we had written the script, casted the actors (Gemma-Alex and Jamie-John), chosen our locations, located a cello- which is no easy feat I’m telling you and organised props/costumes etc.
Day one (morning) - bridge scenes, highly emotional now that we’ve added music in editing! It was rather cold, and members of the public kept asking us questions- not that we minded we thought we were ever so cool! Also a big thanks to bike man who thought we were from the BBC thinking we were making a documentary about the broken lifts on the Stirling Bridge…yeah because everyone would watch that…
Day one (afternoon)-completely zapped of energy we returned to macbob for a soul warming lunch of pizza and macrobert red jucie-yummm. Then it was down to the basement to film the piano scene, we were all shattered and in the need for a good kip. We soldiered on, and catriona became our lovely actress for that afternoon, even although we all had really sore heads resulting form the insents that we brunt to make a gentle mist across the floor of the grand piano- it failed! We got some really atmospheric shots though so all in all I guess it was worth the neurophen I had to take when I got home!
Day two (morning) - music shop, that was a rather good day! Roisin brought a bag of random percussion instruments that kept us all amused for a while and Jamie sang screamo in the glass rehearsal space. Favourite quote of the morning Jonathan- “red head to ceiling, blonde to floor”, Louie and I (blonde and ginger respectively) looked at each other and burst into fits of laughter! This scene has been turned into a montage of shots for the final film, big thanks to the guys from the music store for letting us film.
Day two (afternoon)- After our M&S lunch in the park we headed off to Ruaridh’s house to film the opening scene. We stuck countless posters to his walls and used a mountain of blue tack in the process. A good start to the film, this scene has my favourite cut in it when John is taking concert tickets off the wall- tis guid.
Day three (morning)- Shattered after the previous two days we dragged ourselves to Stirling Station to go to Glasgow for the final day filming. We were the children of Mikey and Jonathan to save money on the train fare, crafty money savers us film lot! When we got into Glasgow we met with our actor for the day- Lefty who plays sitar and snare. Everything went really well, we got all the shots that we needed and some positive remarks from the locals about how nice it is to see young folk getting involved in filming.
Day three (afternoon)- after my first ever subway lunch we got to filming random walking shots. Sean and I even got to appear as extras in the film! These shots were to establish the location and to shoot an entrance for the piano scene that was shot on day 1. We also shot the folk group ‘The Cat Skinners’ which was great, they played us a “wee jig” that really got us all in a good mood. This scene in editing has a really nice feel to it and looks great! Finally, we shot Jamie running back into the train station.
Now we’re in the editing stage, and have the picture pretty much locked. Its going really well and it turned out a little differently from how I imagined it, but I’m really pleased with the film and can’t wait for the premier later this month.
I can’t think of a better way to spend your Easter holiday than making a short film…can you?
lauren :)
We had a great wee team- myself, Louie, Sean, Catriona, Roisin, Ruaridh and not forgetting Mikey and Jonathan!
So we had written the script, casted the actors (Gemma-Alex and Jamie-John), chosen our locations, located a cello- which is no easy feat I’m telling you and organised props/costumes etc.
Day one (morning) - bridge scenes, highly emotional now that we’ve added music in editing! It was rather cold, and members of the public kept asking us questions- not that we minded we thought we were ever so cool! Also a big thanks to bike man who thought we were from the BBC thinking we were making a documentary about the broken lifts on the Stirling Bridge…yeah because everyone would watch that…
Day one (afternoon)-completely zapped of energy we returned to macbob for a soul warming lunch of pizza and macrobert red jucie-yummm. Then it was down to the basement to film the piano scene, we were all shattered and in the need for a good kip. We soldiered on, and catriona became our lovely actress for that afternoon, even although we all had really sore heads resulting form the insents that we brunt to make a gentle mist across the floor of the grand piano- it failed! We got some really atmospheric shots though so all in all I guess it was worth the neurophen I had to take when I got home!
Day two (morning) - music shop, that was a rather good day! Roisin brought a bag of random percussion instruments that kept us all amused for a while and Jamie sang screamo in the glass rehearsal space. Favourite quote of the morning Jonathan- “red head to ceiling, blonde to floor”, Louie and I (blonde and ginger respectively) looked at each other and burst into fits of laughter! This scene has been turned into a montage of shots for the final film, big thanks to the guys from the music store for letting us film.
Day two (afternoon)- After our M&S lunch in the park we headed off to Ruaridh’s house to film the opening scene. We stuck countless posters to his walls and used a mountain of blue tack in the process. A good start to the film, this scene has my favourite cut in it when John is taking concert tickets off the wall- tis guid.
Day three (morning)- Shattered after the previous two days we dragged ourselves to Stirling Station to go to Glasgow for the final day filming. We were the children of Mikey and Jonathan to save money on the train fare, crafty money savers us film lot! When we got into Glasgow we met with our actor for the day- Lefty who plays sitar and snare. Everything went really well, we got all the shots that we needed and some positive remarks from the locals about how nice it is to see young folk getting involved in filming.
Day three (afternoon)- after my first ever subway lunch we got to filming random walking shots. Sean and I even got to appear as extras in the film! These shots were to establish the location and to shoot an entrance for the piano scene that was shot on day 1. We also shot the folk group ‘The Cat Skinners’ which was great, they played us a “wee jig” that really got us all in a good mood. This scene in editing has a really nice feel to it and looks great! Finally, we shot Jamie running back into the train station.
Now we’re in the editing stage, and have the picture pretty much locked. Its going really well and it turned out a little differently from how I imagined it, but I’m really pleased with the film and can’t wait for the premier later this month.
I can’t think of a better way to spend your Easter holiday than making a short film…can you?
lauren :)
A big thanks!
I really want to get the chance to thank everyone involved with mPOWER, this has been an amazing experience and if I was told a year ago I would be involved in a project like this I wouldn’t have believed them!
When I applied for a film development internship with mPOWER I never thought about how much I would change over the process. I now have a real sense of independence and am equipped with the knowledge and skills that I will need in order to achieve what I want in life. I’ve met the most amazing people; whether its industry professionals, the mPOWER staff, the macrobert team, Forth Valley College or the other young people who are involved the project, you guys have made the project so vibrant and a privilege to be involved in!
Here is a taster of the great things I’ve done whilst being involved with mPOWER and mFEST:
-wrote, produced, edited and was an extra in a first light funded film ‘REVISED’ which will be premiered before the festival
-script writing workshop with Mikey Murray and Peter Hynes
-directing workshop with Adrian Mead
-animation workshop with Julia McLean
-worked with Apple to make a music video shown at the Glasgow international Film festival
-sound workshop with Becky Thompson
-trip to the set of River City, Film City
-trip to the set of David Tennant’s new drama Single Father
-went to small majority offices to record voice overs with the Documentary team
-became the associate producer of a new festival act ‘RED’ being performed at the festival
-got a role in ‘Free?’ a new play by amnesty international adapted by a fellow mPOWERer Fraser Morrison
-CV work shops with Forth Valley College
-helping film at the Tolbooth’s Re-loaded events with fellow intern Sean
And that’s before the festival!
I’ve grown as a person through out the whole process and my confidence has soared resulting from the project. I know that I can rely on myself a lot more to keep to deadlines, also I learned a lot about working as a team and loved making my first short film with a great group of friends.
It’s honestly hard to find words to try and explain how grateful I am for this project; my life would be so different if I hadn’t been involved.
I now know the macrobert like the back of my hand, and know what amazing hot chocolate they make! Sadly enough I also know the bus fare to get from Denny to the macrobert, and the price of a smoked chicken panini with pesto (£3.75).
I’ve got to see some amazing performances at the macrobert during this time such as Conflux (spokes) and Motionhouse as part of the inspire events- which true to their name were VERY inspiring! I had never seen a dance drama before seeing these and I hope to see a lot more in the future.
Teenagers have been given a great chance in this festival, and I thank mPOWER for believing and supporting each and every one of us throughout the process- you’ve been so helpful and friendly! I really hope that this project happens again so that other teens like me can experience how brilliant it is.
I’m looking forward to mFEST and hope that all the hard work and hours that everyone has put into it will pay off, and hey, it’ll be great fun!
Lauren :)
When I applied for a film development internship with mPOWER I never thought about how much I would change over the process. I now have a real sense of independence and am equipped with the knowledge and skills that I will need in order to achieve what I want in life. I’ve met the most amazing people; whether its industry professionals, the mPOWER staff, the macrobert team, Forth Valley College or the other young people who are involved the project, you guys have made the project so vibrant and a privilege to be involved in!
Here is a taster of the great things I’ve done whilst being involved with mPOWER and mFEST:
-wrote, produced, edited and was an extra in a first light funded film ‘REVISED’ which will be premiered before the festival
-script writing workshop with Mikey Murray and Peter Hynes
-directing workshop with Adrian Mead
-animation workshop with Julia McLean
-worked with Apple to make a music video shown at the Glasgow international Film festival
-sound workshop with Becky Thompson
-trip to the set of River City, Film City
-trip to the set of David Tennant’s new drama Single Father
-went to small majority offices to record voice overs with the Documentary team
-became the associate producer of a new festival act ‘RED’ being performed at the festival
-got a role in ‘Free?’ a new play by amnesty international adapted by a fellow mPOWERer Fraser Morrison
-CV work shops with Forth Valley College
-helping film at the Tolbooth’s Re-loaded events with fellow intern Sean
And that’s before the festival!
I’ve grown as a person through out the whole process and my confidence has soared resulting from the project. I know that I can rely on myself a lot more to keep to deadlines, also I learned a lot about working as a team and loved making my first short film with a great group of friends.
It’s honestly hard to find words to try and explain how grateful I am for this project; my life would be so different if I hadn’t been involved.
I now know the macrobert like the back of my hand, and know what amazing hot chocolate they make! Sadly enough I also know the bus fare to get from Denny to the macrobert, and the price of a smoked chicken panini with pesto (£3.75).
I’ve got to see some amazing performances at the macrobert during this time such as Conflux (spokes) and Motionhouse as part of the inspire events- which true to their name were VERY inspiring! I had never seen a dance drama before seeing these and I hope to see a lot more in the future.
Teenagers have been given a great chance in this festival, and I thank mPOWER for believing and supporting each and every one of us throughout the process- you’ve been so helpful and friendly! I really hope that this project happens again so that other teens like me can experience how brilliant it is.
I’m looking forward to mFEST and hope that all the hard work and hours that everyone has put into it will pay off, and hey, it’ll be great fun!
Lauren :)
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