SO YOU WANT TO WORK IN TV?
SO YOU WANT TO WORK IN TV?
2 DATES AVAILABLE THIS SUMMER
A really useful and affordable one-day workshop aimed at young people considering a career in the TV industry.
When: WEDNESDAY 30TH JULY 2014
THURSDAY 28TH AUGUST 2014
Where: EALING STUDIOS, EALING GREEN, LONDON W5 5EP
Cost: £60 per person including lunch and refreshments
This course, run by the Production Managers Association (PMA), offers participants the chance to find out exactly what it is like to work in television.
Tutor Linda Stradling, who has decades of experience in television production, will give a fascinating overview of the TV industry, explaining all you need to know about how programmes are commissioned, production costs, and who does what in the hierarchy of roles. Take a look at a more detailed schedule for the day.
As the course is limited to 14 people, you will also get plenty of opportunity to ask questions so that you will come away with a wealth of knowledge at your fingertips.
As well as production managing and teaching, Linda Stradling is the author of "Production Management for TV and Film – The professional guide", the definitive book on production management, and a media trainer at the National Film and Television School.
To enlist on this course, please submit a registration form available from the PMA website http://www.pma.org.uk/other_training/
SCHEDULE – SO YOU WANT TO WORK IN TV?
The different genres of TV
10.30am Roles in TV – Who does what?
The creative versus production.
Skills required for each.
Hierarchy.
Discussion -What roles do you think you would be best suited for?
11.15am BREAK
11.30am Explanation of commissioning of TV programmes.
Funding of drama productions.
Broadcasters in the UK, US etc
Co-productions.
Television budgets and schedules explained.
View clips of a few programmes.
Estimate the cost and time needed to make them.
1.00pm LUNCH
1.30pm The 3 periods of a schedule: Pre-production, production, post production.
What happens in each period and how they may overlap.
Cost monitors and cost reports. Who does them and why.
Insurance – why, what and who it covers.
Explain compliance. Errors and Omissions (E&O).
3.30pm BREAK
4.00pm Health and Safety – what is a Risk Assessment.
Clip shown and risk assessed.
Contracts – between Producer and Broadcaster and for each employee. Brief explanation.
Delivery. Masters and paperwork – what goes where?
Still interested? Where do you go from here?
5.00pm END OF DAY