Overview
Are you an Assistant Location Manager, Unit Manager or even LM looking to take on bigger, more ambitious projects, develop your creativity and progress your career?
If so, this new training programme is for you.
The Key Skills for Location Managers programme is free thanks to funding from the ScreenSkills High-end Television Skills Fund made up of contributions from high-end TV productions produced in the UK.
The training course will give you a thorough grounding in the key logistical, managerial and budgeting skills needed to Location Manage successfully.
More than that, it will develop your creativity to help you translate a world imagined by a screen writer into one that can be filmed, teaching you how to work with a production designer and director to realise their vision, often to shoot something that has ‘’never been seen before.’’
The course is being delivered at locations around the UK including Cardiff/ Bristol, Glasgow, Leeds/ Manchester and London.
Taught by hugely experienced Supervising Location Managers – with credits including A Very English Scandal, Luther, Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, After Life, Saving Private Ryan, Ex Machina, Casino Royale, Game of Thrones, the Olympics Opening Ceremony, The Split, Game of Thrones and many more - the course will take place over 2 days of face-to-face training, followed by 4 online evening sessions.
The course will also have a strong emphasis on the soft skills required of Location Managers – from communication to building a relationship with key creatives and HoDs – as well as managing your own well-being in what can be a highly demanding role.
Key elements of the course include:
Roles and responsibilities across the locations department:
- Taking a brief & Scouting
- Photography
- Recces
- Working with the art director/ production designer, pitching and presenting location boards
- Planning the Shoot
- Budgeting and managing costs
- Negotiating fees and contracts
- Location Agreements
- Insurance and Legals
- Health and Safety
- Access
- Running the Location
- Movement Orders, Battle Plans and Logistics, including split locations, security and traffic management;
- Supervising Art Director – Intentions and Diaries
- Call Sheets & Full Fat Schedules
- Sustainability
- Career next steps including ‘Getting the job and ‘Casting the Crew’
Delegates will also be offered four x 1 on 1 mentoring sessions with an experienced Location Manager or SLM.
Who is delivering the course
The training is being delivered by DV Talent, the school for film and TV professionals, supported by www.thetalentmanager.com. Our tutors are all acclaimed Supervising Location Managers and Location Managers.
Eligibility and to apply
Delegates need to have a proven track-record in the Locations Department (Assistant Location Managers, Unit Managers, Coordinators, Location Managers etc) in HETV.
We are particularly keen to recruit delegates from underrepresented groups, including lower socio-economic backgrounds to help the industry become more representative of the audiences it serves.
We have some bursaries to help with travel, care-costs and accessibility.
Where is it taking place?
- London - 11/12th January - Applications close 3rd January
- Bristol or Cardiff - 1st /2nd March - Applications close 21st February
- Leeds or Manchester - 10/11th May
- Glasgow - 5/6th July
- London. - 2/3rd August
The programme will also include online sessions on the 4 x Thursday evenings following the weekend in-person training
For more information, please contact training@dvtalent.co.uk
Testimonials from course
Really impressed. The tutors have a wealth of knowledge and years of experience that they generously shared with us.
- Katy Pannell, Location Coordinator
Excellent. It pulled together a lot of elements into one place.
- Yvonne Cheal, Location Manager
Extremely useful. The topics were well thought out, well presented and highly relevant to the vocational experience of Location Managing. It was amazing to get insight from two fantastically experienced and highly respected Location Managers in the course leaders
- Matthew Venables, Location Manager
