E&PP -WEEK 1

Started a new module today Entrepreneurship and Professional Practice.
Simon's E&PP blogsite can be found here
We talked firstly about the different types of employment available.
There is
Contract / Agency work
Employed work
Self -employment

Larger scale companies take on sub contractors to do work for them - the advantages of this is
that they are only used when needed so the wage only needs to be paid when there is work to be done,
That no extra office space is needed
Less administration / tax admin

Disadvantages are
Collaborating takes more effort when work is not done in-house


We then lookined at the BBC and the way the BBC’s licensing money
Is shared across the nation.
Ten years ago the BBC was a large employer and had a rosta of trusted ive project work to smaller scale businesses.
During the mid 90’s to 2001 the BBC started to employ people in-house. Some of these people maybe used to work for the smaller production companies that were previously given contracts and the smaller businesses were struggling to survive. suppliers and they would g
For certain tasks/activities, Productions must use contractors drawn from the list of Vetted Contractors available from BBC ORM,
This is the BBC’s working at the BBC health and safety guidance
http://www.bbc.co.uk/foi/docs/working_at_the_bbc/health_and_safety/Contractors_in_Productions.pdf

Channel 4 are running 4 docs where you can film your own documentary and post it online at channel 4 docs.

Channel 4 production processes document

http://www.channel4.com/corporate/4producers/resources/documents/ProductionProcess.pdf


http://www.channel4.com/corporate/4producers

The Commissioning Management team manages various aspects of the commissioning process and the Channel's relationship with independent producers. The main responsibilities are:

• Ensuring that Channel 4 commissioning is communicating its editorial priorities effectively


• Promoting a collaborative, transparent and equitable working relationship between Indies and Commissioning Editors


• Handling any complaints about the Commissioning Process


• Managing Commissioning departments' overheads and staffing


• Off-screen talent development


• Encouraging cultural diversity – both in terms of production teams and in on-screen presence/content


• Promoting a positive attitude to disability – again in terms of production teams and onscreen presence

nma magazine
See if scale bbc's new media dept is going to be in the future.
Current issue with bbc
look at bbc's list of trusted suppliers - look what scale the businesses are on that work for the BBC.
BBC Bristol / Cardiff
(was 25% of business had to be outside the m25 may now have risen to 40%)

Channel 4's /S4C /endemol/ itv new media department

Lots of new media activities in Bristol / Cardiff

Channel 4 started to break up into different suppliers (eg endemol)
Endemol set up branches in other cities so they claim they operate outside the m25 so they could vie for contracts.

Dragon Studios / PLOC
wda
Media clusters - based around infrastructure

bristol is a model of cross sector model of development - university , orange , 422,
look at the titles to programs

Where new media sector relates to the universities
Military St Athan - Military training school
Olwen Moseley