Fixed term Contracts are contracts where the employee signs a contract with an employer to work within a specified time period. This type of contract is quite common within the TV and Film industry as it allows for well known personal to appear regularly to the publics eye and for the behind the scenes team to work on their specialties effectively and frequently. For instance on the ITV show 'Saturday Night Takeaway' which stars the duo presenters Ant and Dec, their contracts will be fixed term until the series ends.
Freelance contracts or freelance workers within the TV and Film industry are under a self-employed contract where they can be hired by a production producer/ director or even a human resources employee. This work pattern is varied as it differs so much from a fixed-term work pattern. Here the freelance work is practically free to work whenever they want, and will get paid depending on the work times whereas a fixed-term contract allows for you to be paid on an hourly rate.
Irregular patterns is where there is no fixed term contract. Some employees working within the TV and film industry may work irregular patterns which means their working time is not fixed and they can work for a different amount of hours on different days, they don't have a exact schedule or timetable of hours they work on each day. They can also work over time, when a person does overtime they get paid extra on top of their normal wage for working over or working unsociable hours.They can be working from early morning until afternoon, or late afternoon till late evening or throughout the night. A director would have irregular patterns during their work, they could be working from early morning till late afternoon or late afternoon till late evening or throughout the night, their hours will vary.
Confidentiality
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| Typical Confidentiality Agreement |
Confidentiality or otherwise sometimes referred to as non-disclosure agreements , in the TV and Film industry is vital as it could mean the difference between a production being successful to it being unsuccessful. It is mainly designed to protect information given by one party to another, in this case it would be the production team and actors that will sign a confidentiality agreement not to disclose of any information of the tv programme or film they're working on.
Many if not all productions must have this agreement signed before the film or tv programme is released to the public. If not, it is likely that someone in the production team will leak information about the production which will obviously cause hazards in terms of privacy and individuality.
Whilst having a confidentiality agreement can be helpful in making sure that information is kept undisclosed until the release date, there are also limitations which create some
Some of the limitations to a confidentiality agreement is that it is not always binding to the person or people who sign it. This means that unintended or accidental disclosure of information will not mean the person who signed the agreement is liable for any offences, therefore does this mean that the agreement isn't completely a guard for valuable information?
Another limitation is that it can be seen as a compromise between the disclosure's desire to secure the information and the others desire to be free from legal repercussions. This makes it quite hard for the agreement to stay completely safe and secure. It is these limitations which can sometimes lead to information sometimes very private being leaked to the public. I have researched into real examples of big media companies having their confidentiality. On the other hand some breaches of confidentiality can result in an unexpected turnout, which actually benefits the company in sales and revenue rather than puts them at a disadvantage. For instance I have found one case where a leak had occurred of a movie trailer, this leak turned out to be a benefit rather than a downfall for the company.
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This shows that although a breach of confidentiality agreements can result in disaster, there are sometimes occurrences where it becomes almost a important part of a company's success story.
https://www.scu.edu/ethics/focus-areas/business-ethics/resources/leaked-movie-trailer/
(http://www.netlawman.co.uk/ia/confidentiality-agreement-limitations (Web page)Exclusivity
An exclusive agreement is when a company or individual has a contract where they work only for the specific company, or they only specifically provide the company with certain goods, this is when the person who has signed the exclusive agreement cannot work with other companies, as they have an contract to only supply/work for the company that they have signed with. When the agreement is formed the party supplying the goods can only exclusively supply the goods to the buyer, if they supply to any other parties/companies then they will have broken the agreement and may face legal action by the other company, however breaking the agreement is very unlikely as it is mutually beneficial to both companies people.
These type of agreement are usually between two companies that want to have an edge in the competition and beat out it's rivals to make sure they have the most customers, the agreement will usually be between a broadcasting company or a company that shows a variety of programmes to it's viewers, and if they see a standalone company specialising in one thing, they will approach the relatively smaller company to allow for a mutual growth, this is good for the standalone company as they will have monopsony power and allow for them to generate higher revenue. This is also good for the 'parent' company as if the previous watchers of the programmes the stand-alone company aired, has to now be watched on the bigger company which leads the consumer to have no choice but to watch it on the buyer's channels. This then creates a monopoly of those programmes as they are the only provider of the programs onto the market, so they generate a lot more revenue as the consumers have no choice or substitute for the exclusive shows that they have.
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