professional behaviors

When working in any job sector it is extremely important to follow certain professional behaviors if you don't follow these it could result in a number of things from creating a bad example of the business, a bad production and even loosing your job.The environment you work in will always be different to a previous job; there will be many different ranges from your job role/title, to your dress code, how much time you get off and the general office atmosphere. Some of the main behaviors that you must follow are;

• Punctuality -
• Attitude-
• Presentation-
• organization - 
• reliability-
• communication skills - 
• Time management
• Respect
• work on own initiative
• motivation
• commitment
• self presentation
• and working as part of a team

These are all in there own way very important but work the best when they are all used together.
It is very important to be, punctual, and reliable in media. This is because if you are late to shoots it can jeopardize the production schedule, as well as being as reliable as possible and sometimes production may not go to plan due to natural causes such as weather, and this cannot be helped so you would have to be available to work when ever needed, same for working late nights to meet deadlines.

 Your appearance and attitude are also important, although a lot of job roles in media are behind the scenes is it still important to present yourselves in a professional manor, especially for interviews, meetings with clients and even for working behind scenes. if you turned up to work in just baggy old clothes these could even cause a risk, for example. If you are the camera man and you are wearing really baggy clothes, trousers especially, that droop along the floor you could catch wires linked up to expensive equipment and break things or trip over. Your attitude, like appearance, is again very important. If you meet with clients with an un interested attitude you could loose out on possible productions, as well as if you act lazy during the production you could upset colleagues, the bosses and the clients.

 Media can be a very stressful experience when it is unorganized. this makes organizational skills one of the most important techniques for this sector.  If you organize yourself during pre-production it speeds up the production process, and makes the situation 10 times easier. the main things to organize are the people involved, the equipment, the location and the schedule. if any of these are not organized before shoots it could jeopardize the shoot itself. for example if you forget to bring some important equipment you may not be able to film and it would waste a day of production.

You should always make sure that your communication skills are involved in media, without communication no one would know what is going on. If you didn't have good communication skills you could turn up to events which have been paid for on your own without any one else. it is extremely important to make sure that all people involved in the production are aware of what is going on at all times

It cost a lot of money to work in media, due to the amount of equipment, people employed and props involved in creating good quality production, so when a lot of money is being used to create things in time for the dead line it is your responsibility to make sure that you are always on time, dedicated to the job and motivated to do the best possible.
With good time managements skills you can ensure that no money is wasted during production, as there is nothing worse than planning a shoot and important people not turning up and this could cause issues such as the production not going ahead or certain scenes being cut jeopardizing the production.

In my opinion the most important professional behavior to have when working in the media sector is the ability to work on your own initiative as well as working as a team. You should always have the ability to decide when something needs to be done to help improve the production or to keep thing running smoothly but these will mean nothing if the whole team are not made aware of this. As well as this the media sector has so many different things going on at the same time that it would be impossible or extremely hard to do it all by yourself. This is where working in a team helps everyone involved in the production, not only does it give everyone the oportunity to bond and build relationships as part of the production team but it also allows the stress of the production to be evenly spread out giving everyone involved a different job role that needs to be carried out for the production. if you didnt work as a team during productions this could increase the budget as you would need more shoot days as you would only be limited to one shoot a day, it would also mean that you are not very organized because it would become very easy to remember what has and hasnt been done.

Overall i believe that if you have knowledge of all of the professional behaviors used in the creative media sector you should have no trouble working in it.