Creating & Reviewing Call Sheets & Risk Assessments

Career stages
Early, Experienced, Expert
Industries
Unscripted TV
Funding
ScreenSkills funded

Dates:

  • Thur 15 April 3pm - 4:15pm
  • Fri 16 April 3pm - 4:15pm

This is a two day course, please only apply if you can attend both days and are in one of the job roles listed below.

Where do you start when you need to put together a Call Sheet?  Who should put together a Risk Assessment and what should be included? How do you review a Call Sheet and Risk Assessment? What’s the best template to use? 

This course will answer these questions and more. It will guide you through the process of completing and reviewing these essential documents, providing you with the confidence to put together and oversee these documents on your Unscripted productions.

The course will be broken down into easy to digest sections over 2 days and will include practical exercises, examples and discussions, as well as guidance and the chance to ask questions throughout.

Who it's for

This course is aimed at Production Secretaries, Production Assistants, Production Co-ordinators and Production Managers who want to learn more about creating a comprehensive Call Sheet & Risk Assessment in Unscripted TV, or those who want to brush up on their knowledge. 
 
By the end of the two days you will learn how to put together a Call Sheet and Risk Assessment for Unscripted TV and be aware of additional health and safety considerations, plus what to do when things go wrong. 

What it covers

  • Creating a Call Sheet
  • Reviewing a Call Sheet
  • Risk Assessment Considerations
  • General Health & Safety
  • What to do when things go wrong
  • Q and As

Speaker

Hannah Gosney is an experienced Head of Production/Senior Production Manager.  She has extensive knowledge and experience of creating and reviewing Call Sheets & Risk Assessments 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.

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 other freelancers the opportunity to fill available spots. Thank you for your consideration.

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