Production Management Salford, Module 2, Budgeting and Contracting 19.07.06

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.

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 - 19th July 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

Cancelation Policy:

We understand that circumstances may occur which mean you, the delegate, need to reschedule a training date. We will do our best to accommodate your needs but our standard cancellation policy is:

• For cancellation less than 72 hours before the course date, 50% of the course value will be charged and 50% refunded unless you can show extenuating circumstances.

• No charge will be made with notifications of 72 hours or longer and a full refund will be issued.

• Non attendance – no refund.

Should course cancellation become necessary, we will attempt to notify registrants at least one week prior to the scheduled training start date. We are unable to refund any non-transferable travel expenses that may arise from a course reschedule or cancellation.

BECTU reserves the right to cancel courses without liability, in these circumstances delegates will be offered an alternative date or full refund.