Transcript Job Roles within the Arts Industry.

Unit 1: Scene
Learning outcomes:
1) Understand the range and types of creative and
media activity in a chosen region
2) Understand creative and media employment
roles and requirements in a chosen region
3) Be able to develop a personal critical response
to a creative or media artefact, activity or event
4) Be able to create a guide to the creative and
media scene in a chosen region.
Job Roles within the Arts
Industry.
Visual Arts ~ CURATOR
What does are Curator do (the job role)?
• Acquires, cares for, develops, displays and
interprets a collection of artefacts or works
of art in order to inform, educate and
entertain the public.
• Might also include activities such as public
relations, marketing, fundraising, budget
control and education programmes.
Visual Arts ~ CURATOR
What are their main job activities?
• cataloguing acquisitions and keeping records;
• writing materials and articles for the website, internal and extrenal
publications;
• planning, organising, interpreting and presenting exhibitions and
lectures;
• collection documentation and management;
• writing bids for funding;
• negotiating loan items with other galleries/museums;
• handling enquiries from researchers and the public;
• with ICT specialists create computer generated imagery and website
information to enhance visitor experiences through interaction;
• budget planning, forecasting and reporting;
• staff management and recruitment, including training;
• liaising with voluntary groups, the community and industry to secure
sponsorship for events, publications and development projects;
• liaising with management boards, governors, trustees and local
council;
• networking with other museum and art gallery professionals and
outside agencies.
Performing Arts ~ Theatre Director
What does a Theatre Director do (job role)?
• Has responsibility for the overall practical
and creative interpretation of a play or
musical score.
• Directors work closely with the creative &
production teams, the performers & the
producer to create a performance.
Performing Arts ~ Theatre Director
What are their main job activities?
• choosing plays for the company to put on;
• overseeing the entire production , making sure it happens within
budget;
• working with Production Manager to create the production schedule;
• breaking down a script, analysing and exploring the content and
doing relevant research;
• interpreting a script or musical score;
• holding auditions, selecting and hiring designers, musicians, etc.;
• communicating their vision of the play to entire company;
• leading rehearsals & attending production meetings;
• attending performances and preparing detailed notes for the cast
and creative and production teams.
• managing the performers & time to keep rehearsal on schedule.
• sometimes writing bids for funding.
Music ~ CONDUCTOR
What does a Conductor do (job role)?
• Conductors organise practice rehearsals
leading up to the actual performance.
Rehearsals focus on fine tuning proper
tone, tempo, rhythm and harmony among
all performers.
• Conductors lead all public performances to
ensure musicians achieve proper timing
and style elements throughout the piece.
Conductors may also coordinate location
and lodging details, if travel for
performances is required.
Music ~ CONDUCTOR
What are their main job activities?
• leading a group of musicians;
• studying and preparing musical scores and sets of parts
for rehearsal and performance;
• practising;
• planning musical programmes and publicity for
performances;
• organising rehearsals and concerts;
• training choirs and choristers, in church settings;
• auditioning instrumentalists and singers for membership
of ensembles and/or solo opportunities;
• writing programme notes and other material
Media Arts ~ NEWSAPAPER EDITOR
What does a Newspaper Editor do (job role)?
• An editor has to make sure that the final copy is readable or the news
bulletin is clear and easily understood and factually correct. All these
processes are part of making a successful, presentable newspaper or
magazine.
• Decides upon editorial policy, e.g. do they support any particular
political party, what is the publications target market. They then need to
implement it across all departments.
• They also have financial control and works with editorial policy
committee and heads of production, advertising, and circulation
departments to develop editorial and operating procedures and
negotiate decisions affecting publication.
Media Arts ~ NEWSAPAPER EDITOR
What are their main job activities?
• appoints editorial & production heads and oversees their work;
• in small papers may perform duties of editorial heads and direct
activities of advertising, circulation, or production personnel;
• notifies editorial heads of position to be taken on specific public
issues;
• reviews financial reports and takes appropriate action with
respect to costs (expenditure) and revenues (income);
• represents publication at professional and community functions;
• correct spelling & grammar, ensuring the copy is reading
smoothly, verify details if they seem to be wrong or unclear;
• give headlines, captions, slugs, blurbs, and search for
appropriate pictures and make graphics;
• designs page layouts, deciding the position of the stories and
which one to give more prominence.
• understand software like Quark Express, Adobe Photoshop, &
CorelDraw etc.
YOUR TASK
1. Choose 1 of the Arts divisions.
2. Refer back to your jobs list done earlier.
Pick 1 job role YOU are interested in.
3. Use the internet/books to research that role.
4. Complete the worksheet to help present
your findings.
5. Repeat the above steps for the other 3 Arts
divisions.
!!!! You have until break to complete the task !!!!