Production Management for Production Coordinators Module 1 Introduction 06.02.16

Production Managing is challenging, exciting and a critical role for any production. Making the step up to PM can be daunting for any PC as you hone your already excellent organisational and logistical skills further and develop your managerial and leadership abilities. Whatever genre you work in, this modular course will furnish you with a thorough knowledge base of the critical skills necessary to become an excellent and effective PM. Using interactive seminars, practical exercises, workshops and industry examples, you will come away a strong foundation with which to build your career further and excel as a PM.

* Limited travel bursaries available. On booking your ticket, please send an email to enquire *

Course content: The course will break down into 5 modules to be run across 5 Saturdays. Course participants can pick and choose the number of modules to attend.

Module 1 - 6th February 2016

Overview of Production Management

• Facilitated discussion identifying the essential role and responsibilities of a Production Manager

• Interactive session covering the stages of pre-production, production and post-production

Genres - similarities and differences across scripted and non-scripted

• Group work discussing the similarities and differences across genres based on real life examples and experiences Production from pre to post – who does what and why?

• Practical exercise identifying the required roles throughout an entire production

• Interactive session discussing the key HODs and their departments and ensuring role types / jargon used are explained thoroughly

Setting up a project – what to think about and your relationship with the Producer

• Practical exercise to discuss and present what a PM needs to consider when setting up a project

• Critique of the work and review

• Seminar on healthy interdependence, communication and joint responsibilities between you and your Producer.

Effective scheduling - how to initially assess a project and break it down

• An interactive introduction to scheduling – across different genres

• Key considerations of an effective and efficient schedule

• How to breakdown storylines/pitch documents/formats and scripts into schedules

• Practical exercise using a drama script to create an initial schedule using certain given parameters

• A guide to the skill of re-scheduling effectively and quickly • Review and critique of work

• Q and A

Course Requirements: Computer skills: word/excel