Discover main tasks and everything you need to understand to achieve them effectively.
Understand wider parts of the industry, and departments and roles where you work
- The different parts of the screen industries, and the main departments and key roles within film, TV, animation, VFX and/or games
- Key equipment and techniques that are used in these departments and roles
- The different departments in the production or organisation you are working for and their roles and responsibilities on a production or project
- The layout of your workplace, or a typical example, and how different locations and facilities are referred to
- Key colleagues, decision-makers and helpful sources of information who are involved on the production or project
- Reliable sources of information about current and future industry developments
Understand where your role fits into the workflow
- The end-to-end production/project workflow or process, and how your role and the roles of others fit into this and interact together
- Typical suppliers, freelancers, commissioning bodies, clients and partners you work with in your role or department and where they fit into the workflow
- The typical timescales, equipment, resources and specialist skills required to carry out work on a production or project
- What information you might need to provide to other colleagues and when
- Examples of how your role and responsibilities may need to vary depending on different requirements from different pieces of work, for example different genres or scales of production
- Reliable sources of information about current and future developments with your role and department
- The importance of recognising and respecting the roles, responsibilities, needs, motivations, interests and priorities of colleagues, partners and suppliers
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