production wizard

Production Wizard Resources

Training can be a great way to improve your marketability. Make sure you win as many jobs as possible by keeping up with the latest technology. Here are some good places to start:

• Skillset - view website
  The sector Skills Council for the Audio Visual industries - Skillset is the industry body supporting skills and training for people and businesses to ensure the UK audio visual industries maintain their world class position. In particular they offer generous bursaries to any freelancers looking to improve or broaden their production skills.
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  The John Brabourne Awards - view website
  Organised by the CTBF (Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund), these awards offer financial and technical support to upcoming film makers. here are a variety of awards including our own Production Wizard award.

It's sometimes useful when making a film to know what time sunset/ sunrise is? This and other useful tools available online follow:

• Currency converter - view website
• Health & Safety Executive - view website
• International Dialing Codes - view website
• Sunrise / Sunset checker - view website
• Time Zones - view website
• Weather Forecasts - view website

Advice:

• The Cinema and Television Benevolent Fund - www.ctbf.co.uk
• Freelance Guide - www.londonfreelance.org
• Learn Direct - www.learndirect-advice.co.uk
• Skillset, The sector Skills Council for the Audio Visual industries - www.skillset.org

Unions:

• BECTU - www.bectu.org.uk
• Amicus (electricians) - www.amicustheunion.org
• BECTU Grips and Crane Technicians Branch - www.gripsbranch.org.uk
• Equity - www.equity.org.uk
• Musicians Union - www.musiciansunion.org.uk
• National Union of Journalists - www.nuj.org.uk

Guilds:

• British Film Designers Guild - www.filmdesigners.co.uk
• Directors Guild of Great Britain - www.dggb.co.uk
• Guild of British Camera Technicians - www.gbct.org
• Guild of British Film and Television Editors - www.gbfte.org
• Guild of Location Managers - www.golm.org.uk
• Guild of Television Cameramen - www.gtc.org.uk
• Production Guild of Great Britain - www.productionguild.com
• Writers Guild - www.writersguild.org.uk

Associations:

• Association of British Theatre Technicians - www.abtt.org.uk
• Association of Lighting Directors - www.ald.org.uk
• Association of Motion Picture Sound - www.amps.net
• Association of Professional Recording Services - www.aprs.co.uk
• Association of Studio and Production Equipment Companies - www.aspec-uk.com
• British Kinematograph Sound and Television Society - www.bksts.com
• British Society of Cinematographers - www.bscine.com
• National Association of Screen Makeup Artists and Hairdressers - www.nasmah.co.uk
• Production Managers Association - www.pma.org.uk
• Professional Sound and Lighting Association - www.plasa.org

Schools (Skillset and Film Council funded/approved):

• Bournemouth Screen Academy - www.media.bournemouth.ac.uk
• Ealing Institute of Media - www.wlc.ac.uk
• Film Business Academy - www.cass.city.ac.uk
• Film and Television Freelance Training - www.ft2.org.uk
• London College of Communications - www.lcc.arts.ac.uk
• London Film School - www.lfs.org.uk
• Screen academy Wales - www.screenacademywales.org
• Screen Academy Scotland - http://www.screenacademyscotland.ac.uk

Other:

• British Academy of Composers - www.britishacademy.com
• British Film Institute - www.bfi.org.uk
• British Phonographic Institute - www.bpi.co.uk
• Institute of Broadcast Sound - www.ibs.org.uk
• Institute of Sound and Communications Engineers - www.isce.org.uk
• New Producers Alliance - www.npa.org.uk
• PACT (Producers Alliance for Cinema and Television) - www.pact.co.uk
• Royal Television Society - www.rts.org.uk
• UK Post & Services - www.ukpost.org.uk
• Women in Film and Television - www.wftv.org.uk

International:

• International Alliance of Theatrical stage employees, moving picture technicians, artists and allied crafts of the US and Canada -www.iatse-intl.org
• International Federation of Free Unions - www.icftu.org
• Media entertainment and Arts alliance - www.alliance.org