Run a location shoot and cut a social video

What is going on

Wattle Street Community Health has commissioned three short social videos on youth mental health, job J26-0405. Day 1 interviews are in the Media Asset Library but participant three's release is outstanding. Day 2 on 22 September is a location shoot at a community centre in Footscray with two young people aged 17 and 19, a youth worker and cutaways in a public park. The Production and Venue Schedule shows the day as Tentative with no signed risk assessment, the location owner has agreed verbally only, and the client's delivery specification asks for vertical video with captions for two platforms. The Head of Screen Production wants a first cut of video one on 25 September.

Your brief

Plan and run the day 2 location shoot under the Studio and Location Shoot Procedure with every release, permission and safety step in place before the first take, log and back up the media correctly, and edit a first cut of video one to the platform specification with captions for review.

Work through it

You do not need to do it all. Doing a few of these will show you what the work is like. Your ticks and notes stay on this device.

• Read the Studio and Location Shoot Procedure, the Child Safe Policy and the Privacy and Image Consent Policy and list every document that must be signed before the first take.
• Complete the Production Risk Assessment for the community centre and park, including public access, cables, weather and the wellbeing of young participants discussing mental health.
• Prepare the call sheet with times, location access, crew and talent contacts, nearest hospital and hazards, and issue it 24 hours before the shoot.
• Obtain the written location release and the Talent and Location Release Forms, including guardian consent for the 17-year-old, and file them in the Media Asset Library.
• Run or simulate the shoot: safety briefing, sound with a separate recorder and room tone, cards offloaded to two drives with checksum and logged.
• Edit a first cut of video one to the vertical specification with captions, licensed music and correct credits, and export for review.
• Update the Production and Venue Schedule to Complete and the Project and Job Board stage, and record participant three's outstanding release as a risk.

What someone in this role would produce

• Signed Production Risk Assessment and call sheet
• Filed releases and location permission
• Media log with offload verification
• First cut of video one with captions