Production Coordinator Definition
According to the California Occupational Guide, a production coordinator is in charge of all aspects of a production schedule. She begins scheduling time from the beginning of a project until it is completed. This job requires a lot of responsibility and organization; the production coordinator must use her personnel, time and equipment in an efficient and effective manner. It is a production coordinator's job to make sure that target dates are met and all the tasks are completed.
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Education
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While it is not essential, most employers prefer that prospective production coordinators have at least a bachelor's degree in communications or in TV and film production. While in school, students should focus on their written and verbal communication subjects, and begin learning about how production equipment works.
Internship
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Most production coordinators begin their career with an internship as a production assistant. Most internships take place after an individual has received his bachelor's degree. Interning gives prospective production coordinators the experience they need to succeed on a set and help them understand how a production schedule works on a daily basis. Internships are also beneficial, because it allows individuals a chance to make contacts and establish connections that they can use in the future to gain employment and create advancement opportunities.
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Schedule
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Production coordinators often work long days, which can include nights and weekends. Production coordinators can find steady employment in the television world and will often work a steady schedule and have consistent hours. Production coordinators that work in theater and film will work long days for weeks at a time, but can often work when they want and receive plenty of time off.
Skills
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Production coordinators have to be extremely organized and detail-oriented, because they are responsible for all aspects of production scheduling. Production coordinators need to have terrific grammar skills and be highly sufficient with computer applications. It is essential that coordinators be proficient at budgeting, data entry and word processing.
Duties
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Production coordinators must be familiar with all the different parts of production, and are in constant contact with the production crew, wardrobe, set dressing, editing, camera, talent, publicity and accounting departments on a daily basis. Production coordinators create the schedule for the entire cast and crew, while doing any other tasks to help production along.
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