Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Unit 1.2 - Research of Jobs and Requirements in the Creative and Media Sector in London

Architect

The role of an architect is to design new buildings for many purposes such as for schools or business. People might think that designing a new building is easy but you have to consider space, mass, volume, light, texture, shadow, program and materials. An architect will have to consider the structure of the building so that it doesn’t fall of. The architect will have to consider the soil that the building is built on so that the building doesn’t just collapse.

You can study the architect course at university of Westminster. This university specialises in architecture. There are three parts to architecture, the first part is the BA/BSc (Hons) Architecture, part 2 is Graduate Diploma in Architecture and part 3 is on Postgraduate Diploma in Professional Practice in Architecture. They also do Interior Design. To do their architecture course you need to have 300 UCAS Points, 12-unit award or two 6-unit awards, Experience and the creative mind.

After you have graduated in the university, you can then go onto working at Allies and Morrison, which is an Architect Company. They have made famous building such as the Royal Observatory in Greenwich and the 13B Paradise Street, Liverpool One. They tend to make building for different types of purposes such as Public, Office, Education, Health, Residential, Hotel, Retail, Infrastructure, Conservation, Sport, Landscape, and also Master plan. Allies and Morrison also does Architecture internationally as well.


Graphic Designer

The role of a Graphic Designer is to bring purpose into the world unnecessary art. They might make a poster to get people off Smoking or even make an advertisement poster for a Cigarette company. They tend to think outside the box, which will attract the people, and it has a deep meaning into the poster. They can make a poster using Computer Software’s such as Photoshop or just draw by hand.

The college you can end up in if you wanted to do is Ravens Bourne, which perfects in Graphic Designing. It wont take long to finish course but you will have to draw to A Level Standard even though your are doing Graphic Designing on a software. Other then that you can ace Graphic Designing if you have a creative mind.

After you have finished your university, you can go work at IPC Media. IPC Media Perfects in Journalism and Graphic Designing. IPC Media makes 85 Iconic Brands. They make magazine for different purposes such as for cars or even pensioners. Most of their magazines are free but some of them, you have to buy.


Contemporary Dancer

Dancers use movement, gesture and body language to portray a Character, Situation or abstract Concept to an Audience, usually to the accompaniment of music. This normally involves interpreting the work of a choreographer, although it may sometimes require improvisation. Dancers get a close career choice because if you were to choose dance, you can’t go into any other Career.
If you are interested in dance, then you probably prefer to end up in Trinity Labane because it specialises in dancing. You can get a graduate in dance altogether or you can get a degree on a specific type of dance. This college are designed to meet the needs of a contemporary dancer.
After you have gained your degree or your graduate, you can then go into loads of different jobs. You can dance on X Factor or any other TV shows. You can teach people how to dance or even dance in a festival.


Actor

A person that perfects in communicating the audience through speech, movement and the language of the body. An actor’s role may involve education, therapy and training just as entertainment. An actor are most likely to be famous since they might appear on the TV really often because they often appear on soaps, films and even advertisements. Most youngsters would want to be an actor because of the high life that nearly all actors live in.
The college you would want to get in, if you are an actor is RADA, which stand for the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. This specific college is very hard to get in. This is like Cambridge in the world of acting. This college offers two courses; ‘Acting and Performances” and Product and Design”. After you have gained your degree and graduated, you can get a place at X Factor and gain your fame. You can make an interview with famous directors or producers and ask them for an opportunity in the film industry.

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