Production Management Salford Module 5: Movie Magic Scheduling 22.09.16

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Production Management Salford Module 5: Movie Magic Scheduling 22.09.16

By BECTU Northern Training

Date and time

Thu, 22 Sep 2016 09:30 - 17:00 GMT+1

Location

Greenhouse

Broadway MediaCityUK Salford M50 2EQ United Kingdom

Refund Policy

Contact the organiser to request a refund.

Description

Production Managing is challenging, exciting and a critical role for any production. Making the step up to PM can be daunting for any PC as you hone your already excellent organisational and logistical skills further and develop your managerial and leadership abilities. Whatever genre you work in, this modular course will furnish you with a thorough knowledge base of the critical skills necessary to become an excellent and effective PM. Using interactive seminars, practical exercises, workshops and industry examples, you will come away a strong foundation with which to build your career further and excel as a PM.

Course content: The course will break down into 5 modules to be run across 5 Saturdays. Course participants can pick and choose the number of modules to attend, but it is recommended for those with minimal expereince to book the Introduction Module 1.

Module 5 - 22nd July 2016

Introduction to Movie Magic scheduling

  • An interactive overview of Movie Magic V6 (the latest release)

What determines a schedule?

  • Key considerations for an effective and efficient schedule
  • How to breakdown storylines/pitch documents/formats and scripts into schedules
  • Practical exercise to breakdown a drama script understanding the relevance of key elements including marking up scripts to highlight such critical information
  • Review of exercise to ensure understanding of what drives and impacts schedules
  • Q and A

How to breakdown a script on Movie Magic

  • Interactive introduction using the software to create individual sheets, element and category managers from a script
  • Creation of strip boards
  • Q and A

How to create a schedule on Movie Magic

  • Using the principles identified earlier, interactive demo on how to manipulate the stripboard and move, sort and group strips into schedules
  • How to manipulate the schedule according to changes within a production
  • Practical exercise to create a drama schedule using a script
  • How to generate reports, calendar manager and daybreaks
  • How to design and print your reports and schedules
  • Q and A

Getting there

Full details of arriving and parking can be found here:

http://www.mediacityuk.co.uk/destination/getting-here

Car parking: The Greenhouse does not have its own car park but there is a multi story car park signposted off Broadway, which is the main road to MediaCityUK (coins, notes or pay-by-mobile)

if you are using public transport:

Trains from Victoria or Piccadilly stations link you direct to the Tram network, and you can get a MediaCityUK tram straight to the location, The Greenhouse is a 5 minute walk from the Tram stop.

Alternatively you can also get the number 50 bus from Manchester Oxford Road to MediaCityUK.

Cancellation Policy

We appreciate that when circumstances change you may no longer be able to attend a training course date you have already booked and paid for.

Whilst we will always try our best to accommodate any alterations to your plans, BECTU has a standard cancellation policy which is as follows:

  • if you notify us (phone/email) 3 full days or longer before the scheduled course date you will not be charged and will be refunded in full any course fees you have paid.
  • for any cancellation you make that is less than 3 full days before the course date, you will be charged 50% of the total course fee with 50% refunded. This is unless you can demonstrate to us extenuating circumstances.
  • if you do not attend the course and/or fail to notify us in advance you will be charged the full course fee.
  • we are unable to reimburse any non-transferable travel or accommodation expenses that may arise from a course being re-scheduled or cancelled.

BECTU reserves the right to cancel courses without liability. However, where possible, delegates will be offered an alternative date or a full refund.


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