Budgets & Schedules for Production Managers (ScreenSkills)
Date 24 May, 11:00 - 28 May 2021, 12:00
Location Online
Price Free
Application deadline 17 May 2021
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Dates:
Mon 24 May 11am - 12pm
Tue 25 May 11am - 12pm
Wed 26 May 11am - 12pm
Thu 27 May 11am - 12pm
Fri 28 May 11am - 12pm
This is a five day course. Please only apply if you can attend all 5 days.
It can be daunting to make the step up to become a Production Manager, becoming responsible for putting together budgets and schedules and looking after a cost manager. This course is designed to prepare you for that next that step and will guide you through the process to give you the confidence you need in budgeting and scheduling for unscripted TV.
The course will be broken down into easy to digest hour-long sections over 5 days and will include practical exercises as well as guidance and the chance to ask questions throughout.
Who it's for
This course is aimed at Production Co-ordinators and Junior Production Managers looking to take the next step in their career, or those who want to brush up on their budgeting and scheduling skills in unscripted TV.
By the end of the course you will learn how to put together a budget and schedule and how to look after a cost manager to keep the production on budget and schedule.
What it covers
Breaking down treatments
Creating production schedules
Creating a budget
Managing an Excel cost manager
Purchase orders, invoices, expenses, petty cash/per diems, assets, recoverables
How to deal with overspends
Q and As
Speaker
Hannah Gosney is an experienced Head of Production/Senior Production Manager. She has extensive knowledge and experience of creating and looking after budgets and schedules across a variety of unscripted genres.
Starting out as an Office Runner Hannah quickly worked her way up the ranks working on extreme sports shows and commercials to remote and hostile shoots among others, to specialise in factual, factual entertainment and natural history programmes. Credits include The Mekong River with Sue Perkins (BBC 2), Flintoff’s Road to Nowhere (Sky One), Wild Shepherdess with Kate Humble (BBC 2), Wales: Land of the Wild (BBC 2) and Veganville (BBC Three)
Throughout her career she’s been passionate about nurturing and training crew and understands the importance of best practice in the industry. With this in mind she now focuses her time on providing training for the media industry with an emphasis on those working in production. She has a Level 3 Train the Trainer qualification and is a Level 3 qualified ILM Coach & Mentor.
This event is supported by the ScreenSkills Television Skills Fund which invests in training for the freelance television workforce thanks to contributions from the BBC, Channel 4, ITV, and Channel 5.
It is part of a ScreenSkills programme to support freelancers to upskill and stay connected, helping keep the industry resilient in these difficult times.