Developing technologies

Shooting on Film 

The first digital cameras were developed in the late 80's and were used only on very high budget productions. Until this time all cameras used film to shoot on. Though today there are many ways to shoot a movie digitially there are still many directors and film companies which prefer the good-old fashioned method of shooting on film. Movies today which are shot on film include Django Unchained, The Fighter, The Master and Lincoln. This proves that film is very much alive and will never be fully replaced by digital as it has the backing and is the chosen method of big directors such as Quentin Tarrentino and Stephen Spielberg.  Cinema goers also have been used to the "film look" and to change to digital would upset that trend. This is similar to the circumstance last year when viewers of The Hobbit complained about the newly introduced 48 fps because it moved from the standard 24 fps.

High definition

 Modern-day HDTV as we know it was started in Japan by the Japan Broadcasting Corporation in 1970.  The JBC in 1980 came up with the concept of which included, among other things, the definition of wide screen format and 1100-line scanning structure which was the basis of HD. After 35 years of development, high definition television is finally available in the consumer marketplace. a 1080p HDTV offers about six times the Quality of a rahular 480p SDTV signal. HDTV also features a wider (16:9) aspect ratio format which is closer to what the human eye sees.  The future of HD is in jerpoady though as the new higher resolution 4K HDTVs will soon take over.  

digital Recorders

As I mentioned earlier the first digital cameras were developed in the late 80's and were used only on very high budget productions and at the time was a revolutionary technology as it cut out so much of the then considered costly and inefficient process of shooting on film. There are disadvantages of shooting digitially for reasons such a you can't achieve the true "film look" that film obviously can and unlike when shooting in film everything has to be backed up after each shot. But the advantages outweigh the disadvantages such as you don't have to wait for the film to be developed and more majorly there is no cost of the film your shooting on. Films such as the hobbit, the hunger games and sky fall are examples of fils shot on digital recording equipment. 

Pay Per View

The term "pay-per-view" did not come into general use until the late 1980s companies like the american TV stations  HBO and Showtime stated using a pay per view system to make a small amount of extra cash on there wrestling programs with prices ranging from £3.99 to £49.99. Now though this has spread to this UK and channels such as sky box office provide a pay per view service on all big boxing matches. The future if this service is looking good as you can now buy daily subscriptions to sky sports which is the most popular pay per view service in the UK. 

Job Roles .

Job Roles

Management 

Production Managers run productions most of the time on behalf of the Producer. They help to determine the quickest and economic way to get the shots. Other jobs for a production manager is to negotiate business deals for crews, locations and technical equipment, and make day-to-day production decisions to ensure that productions proceed smoothly. The role of a production manager is challenging but well paid, usually on a freelance basis. 

Creative

A creative director is a position often found within the art side of the film and is often heavilly evolved in advertising department of the film. Roles such as graphic design, fashion, music, media and software development  A creative director is a vital role in the film industries. The creative director may also assume the roles of an art director, copywriter, or lead designer. 

Editorial

It is usually assumed that the editorial part of the filming process the only job is a video editor but this is not correct. Editors are one of the key Heads of Department on feature films, responsible for First Assistant Editors, and on bigger productions all the script revisions and finally the cutting process as well.  They also have a key publishing role. 

Technical

 A Technical Director is responsible for the creation of the company's product to the marketplace by managing technical risks and opportunities. Making key decisions with the development teams, scheduling of tasks including tracking dependencies, managing and educating the team on technical aspects of the production.

Research

Researches usually work on all aspects of of the production but they are mainly they are useful for documentaries there main job is to carry out research on previous films or documentaries and learn from the mistakes. Using research to give reliable facts and figures about the target audience and  
quantotive research to gain useful facts and figures to aid you with aspects of the audience research.

Financial

Finance has a number of different roles within the film industry, They offer anything from simply giving a film short of money some added finances to fully financing a production with a large investment rate. Very few producers and directors have the money to put into there films so they have to rely on money from investors to go into there productions. 

Organisational 

The direcotor of a film is in charge of everything and is the comander of the whole procution. Overall The direcotor is in chacge of the orgainsational aspects of the production but under there command is the the organisational director. Though this role is not called the the producer organisational director often assumes the role of an on-set producer which means they are responsible for the finding of locations and making sure everything runs on time and making sure people are on time to set.

—Shit work, Fixed term

Office hours, Freelance

 Irregular patterns

Hourly rates

Piece work