Film 3 - planning

FILM 3 - Gaining Employment (3.3)

You will produce a short documentary film (3-5 minutes), which highlights a particular job that you would like to pursue in the creative media sector (film, TV, graphics or photography)…containing at least one interview.

Your film will highlight (3.3):

Skills and qualifications: what do you need to gain a specific role in the industry? Education and training, eg full-time and part-time education, training on the job,
continuing professional development, self-training, Level 2, Level 3, graduate, post-graduate; sources of information, eg Sector Skills Councils, unions, careers services, trade and other publications

Transferable skills: what skills are needed? (personal attributes, eg knowledge and skills, commitment, efficiency, reliability, punctuality, self-presentation; key skills, communication, working with others, improving own performance)

Methods of recruitment: where do employers advertise? (national press; trade press; internet; word of mouth; personal contacts; internal promotion)

Finally, it will also indicate possible career paths within the industry and describe how to get started on a career in the industry.

This film is to be completed by 27th March 2012


To achieve a Pass: In relation to recruitment, learners will provide an unelaborated but accurate outline of the main methods of recruitment used in the chosen industry, and will summarise the skills, education, training and personal attributes required of an employee in that industry.

To achieve a Merit: Learners will provide a detailed description of the methods of recruitment used in the chosen industry, and will describe in detail the skills, education, training and personal attributes required of an employee in that industry, relating these to specific examples of jobs or aspects of jobs. A merit grade learner might note the connections between one aspect of recruitment and another – how, for example, personal attributes such as commitment and punctuality will enable someone to get the most out of education and training.

To achieve a Distinction: As well as explaining fully, and in relation to well-detailed examples, the methods of recruitment and the skills, education, training and attributes required of employees in the chosen industry, learners will show a more sophisticated awareness of the employment market, showing, for instance, some understanding of the relative difficulty of getting certain types of job, or the advantages and disadvantages of certain ways of obtaining employment.

to be submitted next Tuesday