Production Management for Production Coordinators Module 2 Budgeting and Contracting 13.02.06

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, but it is recommended for those with minimal expereince to book the Introduction Module 1.

Module 2 - 13th February 2016

Introduction to budgeting

• Interactive seminar on what drives a budget and what to think about when starting from scratch
• How to determine requirements to create a realistic budget
• How to put an effective budget together – real life industry examples
• The importance of the calendar; programme treatment; shooting medium and delivery format; clearances and compliance; duration and number of episodes; scheduling basics; department overheads and holiday pay
• Practical exercise to begin a new budget working to given parameters
• Review and critique of practical exercise
• Q and A

Controlling and tracking costs

• How to make the production budget work
• How to trim a budget
• Managing expectations across the production
• Working with your HODs effectively
• Cost tracking, POs, floats
• Responsibilities and delegation
• Troubleshooting – real life examples of what can happen to the production budget
• Q and A

Contracting Cast and Crew

• Interactive session covering the basics of contracting cast and crew
• How to deal with cast effectively and fairly
• Practical exercise on what you need to consider when working with underage artistes and hours
• Q and A