Budgets and Schedules for Production Managers

Dates:

• Mon 26 July 15:00 - 16:00
• Tue 27 July 15:00 - 16:00
• Wed 28 July 15:00 - 16:00
• Thurs 29 July 15:00 - 16:00
• Fri 30 July 15:00 - 16:00

This is a five day course. Please only apply if you can attend all 5 days and are in the job roles listed below in unscripted TV.

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 session is supported by the ScreenSkills Unscripted TV Skills Fund which invests in training for the unscripted workforce thanks to contributions from broadcasters, SVoDs and production companies.

It is part of a ScreenSkills programme to support freelancers to upskill and stay connected, helping keep the industry resilient in these difficult times.

This session will take place online via Zoom. Click ‘apply for ticket’ and follow the instructions to apply for your place: you must login or register before you are able to complete your application

If you are no longer able to use your ticket, we ask you to please contact support@screenskills.com so that we can release your place. Our sessions are often oversubscribed, so we’d like to give others the opportunity to fill available spots. Thank you for your consideration.