Overview
The specially subsidised Autumn Offers are open to all TM members, but we're offering TM Pro users priority booking (with the additional TM Pro discount rate applied as with all of our training courses). Basic TM member bookings open two weeks before the course's date.
A hands-on, highly interactive 2-day course that will give you a solid grounding in the skills, responsiblities, methods and best-practices involved in working as a production coordinator on both broadcast and cross-platform projects.
Taught by an award-winning head of production, the course takes you step-by-step through the key stages of a production as well as the essential tasks and skills needed to be a co-ordinator, from monitoring costs to scheduling, from setting up location shoots to contracting artists, from booking and negotiating kit to clearances and rights.
The course is taught through a series of practical tasks and exercises taken from real-life productions.
"Very informative, engaging and educational"
"I thoroughly enjoyed the course. Ally was a fantastic instructor, made me feel at ease and I learnt a lot. The course covered all the things I wanted to learn more about and I came away with the confidence I needed to make the move into production."
"The course has given me the confidence I needed to go for Coordinator roles"
- Introduction to the role of the Production Coordinator within production management; what makes a good PC?
- How to work under pressure and importance of prioritising
- Maintaining a good working relationship with the Production Manager, and the production team
- Setting up shoots in the UK, and abroad, including managing locations
- Negotiating location and contributor fees
- Understanding the technical aspects of the production - from cameras to edit suites
- Working with demanding production teams - facilitating the shoot whilst managing the budget
- Budgets and managing your components of it
- Introduction to how the PM will create a budget and how the PC can be included in that process
- Petty Cash floats and processing expenses, including systems for tracking cash, reconciliations, understanding and calculating Vat
- Post- production and new technology - understanding the processes of what goes on after filming has finished and cost implications
- Delivables, compliance and post-production paperwork
This course offers Talent Manager Pro members the following discount:
£325 + VAT