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Production office and AD Foundation
How a production runs from office to floor: call sheets and schedules, breakdowns, paperwork and releases, locations, risk assessments and insurance in a UK frame, and floor running on the radio.
- Time
- About 6 to 8 hours
- Lessons
- 6
- For
- Anyone 18 or over who has finished Day One and wants to work as a production runner, floor runner or office trainee.
- Pass mark
- 80%; safety must be right
- Window
- 12 weeks
- Ends with
- Online learning record. Next: book your competency check.
6 lessons
The lessons, in order.
- 01How a production runsProducer, line producer, production manager, coordinator, the AD team and who answers to whom.
- 02Call sheets, schedules and breakdownsFrom script to stripboard to call sheet, and what changes overnight.
- 03Paperwork and releasesContributor and location releases, timesheets, petty cash and why the office keeps every copy.
- 04Locations and neighboursRecces, permissions, filming notices, parking and leaving a location as you found it.
- 05Risk assessments and insurance, UKReading a risk assessment, employer's and public liability, and who signs what. Awareness, not authorship.
- 06Floor running and the radioLock-ups, background action, moving cast to set, and the calls the AD team uses.
The practice task
From a short scene you have not seen before, break it down, schedule a two-day shoot, write the call sheet, then answer six 'what if' changes: rain, a late artist, a lost location.
Six steps in every lesson, safety first, checks you must pass, tasks a person marks. Then a short competency check with us and a practical on our unit.
