GUILD

WHAT DID EACH OF THE STEPS INVOLVE IN BECOMING A MEMBER OF A GUILD?

• Apprenticeship- working for a guild master for a number of years in exchange for food, a place to sleep, and education.
• Journeyman- working at the trade for a number of years, usually as a paid employee of a different master.
• Master- the journeyman prepared a masterpiece, which was designed to show off his skill. The masterpiece was judged by a jury of masters of the guild, and if they agreed that it showed mastery, then the journeyman would be a master.

WHY WAS MEMBERSHIP IMPORTANT?

• Members of a guild had the opportunity to rise in society through hard work.
• The guilds help to establish and specialize various vocations and industries.
• It also provided a format of craftsmen and journeymen to exchange and contribute ideas and skills.

WHAT HAPPENED IF YOU DID NOT BELONG TO A GUILD?

• You would have the lowest of the low options for a job. They would think you are beneath them because you weren't apart of a Guild.
• Your social rank wouldn't have a chance of going up. Your status would be low.

WHAT WERE THE TYPES OF GUILDS?

• Examples- weavers, dyers, armorers, bookbinders, paints, masons, bakers, and leather makers.
• These were called called Craft Guilds.
• Merchant guilds controlled the way trade was handled in the town.

WHAT WERE THE BENEFITS OF BELONGING TO A GUILD WHEN IT CAME TO FRIENDS AMD FAMILY?

• They would have better protection and be safer. Since they would be apart of a Guild their family would also have better protection.
• They would be better off in the future. Their social status would be higher.

MODERN DAY EXAMPLES OF THE GUILD?

• An apprentice/journeyman/master paradigm is daily in tact for the feature film, feature animation, and television production industries. Generally film school graduates will start in the same position as someone hired with no previous experience. As they bounce from production to production they're promoted up the responsibility chain and are generally hired as crew for people they've worked under before.