PRODUCTION STAGE TWO

With any luck, our brilliant PRODUCTION COORDINATORS, KIRK and EMMA will covered your script in coloured markers and from this produced a LIST for each element - Characters, Props, Costume, Location, effects, make-up, etc.

With shooting just weeks away, Kirk and Emma have a new challenge from Peter (Don't panic - Jo, myself and the rest of the team are on hand to help).

For Stage 2, you have to start to source the elements by working down each list and ticking them off. As your PRODUCTION COORDINATORS titles suggest, you are also in charge of co-ordinating the teams..!

It is your job to give the DESIGN TEAM the costume, make-up, props, set lists - all the design elements - see that they are finding these items. Check with them every week.

EMMA RENHARD will be co-ordinating costume and CHARLIE OSWIN will be working on MAKE-UP.

The production co-coordinators need to talk with the APPRENTICE PRODUCTION person on each film about checking these areas (costume and Make-up) that they are covered and what is needed. Give them your list.

We will need to store the items we make and source - TALK TO NICOLA & DAVID about storing at the GATE THEATRE.

With the DIRECTORS - YOU NEED TO LOOK AT LOCATIONS.

LOCATIONS bring new questions like permission, contacts, access, toilets, parking, and while DIRECTORS and PRODUCTION CO-ORDINATORS can identify these places they need to pass on any information to the APPRENTICE PRODUCTION person on each film to secure access, permission and if the location can work.

A film is made in pre-production - what happens on set is simply the carrying out of the planning that went into pre-production. It is the most important time in the life of a film!

Peter