Production co-ordination for unscripted TV

This intensive and interactive course gives confidence to production secretaries, production assistants, junior production co-ordinators as well as new entrants who want to pursue a role in production and make the step up to become a production co-ordinator. By the end of the course you will understand what the role of a production co-ordinator is in unscripted TV production and how to set up shoots, complete financial reconciliations and complete post production paperwork whilst keeping your production manager happy.

Course content: 

• ALBERT/Sustainability
• Setting up shoots
• Kit
• Creating a call sheet
• Risk assessments
• Release forms
• Expenses/petty cash/per diems/POs
• Clearances/copyright
• Post production
• Paperwork deliverables/Silvermouse
• What to do when things go wrong

It's a full A-Z on what is required from a production co-ordinator on an unscripted production.

 

Tutor

Hannah Gosney is an experienced Head of Production/senior production manager.  She has extensive knowledge and experience of looking after productions from start to finish across a variety of genres such as factual, factual entertainment, sports, commercial/corporate, music and arts and natural history, with a specialism in foreign filming.

Starting out as an office runner Hannah quickly worked her way up the production ranks working on extreme sports shows and commercials to remote and hostile shoots among others, to specialise in factual, factual entertainment and natural history programmes. Credits include The Mekong River with Sue Perkins (BBC 2), Flintoff’s Road to Nowhere (Sky One), Wild Shepherdess with Kate Humble (BBC 2), Wales: Land of the Wild (BBC 2), Veganville (BBC Three) and Wonders of the Celtic Deep (BBC 2).

Throughout her career she’s been passionate about nurturing and training crew and understands the importance of best practice in the industry. With this in mind she now focuses her time on providing training for the media industry with an emphasis on those working in production. She has a Level 3 Train the Trainer qualification, a Level 3 Award in Education and Training contextualised to the screen industries and is a Level 3 qualified ILM Coach and Mentor.

 

Course duration

Two days - 9:30 - 17:30 each day

Location

Online - via Zoom

Class size

 5 - 15 people

Cost

£300

Next course

12 and 13 May 2026*

*You must be available to attend all of the training days

Bursary applicable

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About this listing

This training course is not funded or commissioned by ScreenSkills, but has been reviewed to ensure it is meeting agreed standards such as industry-led diversity targets, appropriate business insurance, and evidence of previous quality training provision.