Elements and Performance Criteria
- Confirm scope of productions
- Consult with producer or director to clarify production expectations based on negotiations or decisions made during the development phase
- Break down scripts scene by scene to establish detailed resource requirements
- Identify, from script breakdowns, issues with budget or shooting implications
- Prepare preliminary production and pre-production schedules
- Prepare preliminary shooting schedule to compare with length of shoot allowed in budget, and adjust if necessary
- Re-time scripts to estimate production times and to identify whether scripts need reducing to meet budget constraints
- Finalise budgets
- Liaise with suppliers to establish costs and availability of required resources
- Liaise with relevant personnel in different production and post-production areas to clarify requirements, roles and responsibilities
- Identify potential problems with production requirements, and take appropriate action to resolve promptly
- Present cost estimates to relevant personnel and negotiate changes as required
- Compile final resource schedule, with contingency plans
- Confirm budgets enable achievement of creative and technical production requirements and cover resource and personnel requirements
- Manage pre-production
- Oversee establishment of pre-production processes and documentation before the start of pre-production activities
- Set up the financial organisation of the production, and processes for reporting against budgets
- Commission safety reports from appropriate sources and circulate reports to relevant organisations and personnel
- Meet regularly with heads of departments to monitor expenditure against budget taking action as required to keep overall expenditure within budget
- Circulate scripts to relevant personnel and establish and monitor the process for communicating script changes
- Ensure all arrangements for access to locations are completed correctly and within required timeframes
- Organise publicity and press briefings as required
- Oversee pre-production activities of all departments, providing guidance and assistance as required
- Finalise shooting schedules and circulate final production documentation to relevant personnel within required timeframes