Production Management: Beginning (187)

TMA 187 : Production Management: Beginning (3:3:3)

WHEN TAUGHT: Fall; Winter
PREREQUISITE: None
DESCRIPTION: Fundamentals of media production; budgeting, scheduling, and management skills.
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
  • Understand the responsibilities of all key crew positions; emphasizing what is taken upon yourself when youagree to fill a certain position on a film, specifically the role of Producer and Unit Production Manager
  • Understand the pre-production/planning stage of a film, or everything that must be done before you should go into production on a film project;
  • Effectively break down, schedule, and budget a script and who should be involved; where and how to save money and where to spend it;
  • Problem solve;
  • Grants, scholarships, funds available, student discounts, etc.;
  • Understand the basics of pitching a story idea;

 

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