The TV Production Manager

What the TV Production manager sees at work.

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When the inexperienced PC issues sub-floats to completely different productions and doesn't record what they've done anywhere and you spend 3 weeks unpicking it all

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Doing your delivery paperwork on Silvermouse

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when a runner tells you they didn't go to university to be stuck with scanning and cataloguing release forms

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When you have to design an evacuation plan for an entertainment show because its shooting in a bonkers location.

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when the comm ed commissions a series and tells you they hate everything in the broadcast pilot

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when the client 'suggests' a HoD for your production that nobody has ever heard of

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when the client wants the production designer to pitch for a £3k set dressing gig  

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Sitting in a production meeting and someone suggests clock wipes as a style point for the edit

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When the new runner shows me the must have app that converts multiple camera images to pdf and we're on location without a scanner. Or power. Or snacks.

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When I’m suffering the effects of last night’s team building drinks and the Prod Exec suggests drinks tonight

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Interviewing a freelance producer via Skype.

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MRW the new PC creates a multi tabbed, pivot table, edit schedule in Excel

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MRW I see what's in the cost manager for schedule 32

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When you’re the only person left in the office and have to inspect and return all the hired kit.

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When you’re casting for savvy pensioners and the AP opens their pitch... 

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When the client helpfully suggests using casting platforms that your editorial team have already been rinsing for the last 3 months...

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When a producer uses the term 'identify actionables' in a job description