BREAKDOWN & FUNCTIONS OF A FILM PRODUCTION OFFICE. (In the Entertainment industry.)

Production Office / Photo Credit: Atlanta Film Works

BREAKDOWN & FUNCTIONS OF A FILM PRODUCTION OFFICE. (In the Entertainment industry.)

Bruce Bisbey…please follow me at: https://dumbdogproductionsllc.blogspot.com or https://www.facebook.com/DumbDogProductionsLLC/ thank you.

BREAKDOWN & FUNCTIONS OF A FILM PRODUCTION OFFICE.  

If you want to learn the functions of a film or TV production. The production office is the place. I was an office production assistant on two shows in the early part of my career. Opened up the complete operations and functions of each department and the need of continuous communications and up to date changes in scheduling, day out of days, the script, locations or a hundred other functions.

A film Production Office is the administrative office responsible for managing a film production. The office is responsible to the Film Producer and includes the Production Manager, Assistant Director and one or more Production Assistants. Typically a Production Office is established in the pre-production phase and continues until at least post-production.

The Production Office usually includes positions such as, but not entirely made of, Production Supervisor, Production Office Coordinator, Assistant Production Office Coordinator, Production Secretary and Office Assistants (otherwise known or credited as Office PA's or Staff Assistants).

The production office usually provides offices for the producers, writing staff and accounting departments. Its most important function is the support and communication with and between each department.

They handle the day to day functions from shipping, script sides, accounting, payroll, non-interdepartmental communications, and vital communications between departments. Follow-up for scheduling and distribution of sides and Call Sheets.

Travel, pick-up at airports, hotels, vehicles for transportation department, talent, crew and departmental needs.

A Production Office will look different for each production depending on many variables including the type of film, the production company producing the film and the size of the budget of the film itself. A Production Office can be as small as one or two people (mostly seen in an independent film structure) or as big as ten or more on a film with a sizeable budget.

Production Office:

• Line Producer…
• Unit Production Manager…
• Production Supervisor…
• Office Production Coordinator…
• Assistant Office Production Coordinator…
• Travel Coordinator…
• Production Secretary…
• Office Production Assistant or PAs… 

Accounting Department:

• Key Production Accountant…
• First Assistant Accountant…
• Second Assistant Accountant…
• Paymaster…
• File Clerk…
• Accounting PA… 

Key tasks and operations:

• Office Production Office…
• Rentals of locations and Warehouses for departments…
• Pick-up of crew and talent from the airport or arrival destinations…
• Housing for crew and talent…
• Rental Office Equipment, Walkie-Talkies and Phones for all departments…
• Security for all office and locations…
• Shipping and Couriers…
• Scheduling…
• Follow-up and changes of Day out of days…
• Distribution of Call sheets…
• Follow-up for catering and crafts service…
• Vital distribution of sides…
• Coordinate with Transpo for pick-up of talent and crew for call each day…
• Work and coordinate with local government agencies…
• Work and coordinate with police, fire and emergency services…
• Work with locations to make sure all strikes and locations are cleaned and returned to pre shoot state…
• Make sure all departments are wrapped out…
• Provide whatever is needed for post-production and continuity for reshoots or sequels… 

The list is really endless and the needs and operation of the production office starts from day one to wrap.

Sources, References & Credits: Bruce Bisbey, Google, Wikipedia, Wikihow, WikiBooks, Pinterest, IMDB, Linked In, Indie Wire, Film Making Stuff, Hiive, Film Daily, New York Film Academy, The Balance, Careers Hub, The Numbers, Film Maker, TV Guide Magazine, Blurb, Media Match, Quora, Creative Skill Set, Chron, Investopedia, Variety, No Film School, How Stuff Works, WGA, BBC, Daily Variety, The Film Agency, Best Sample Resume, How Stuff Works, Bright Hub, Career Trend, Producer's Code of Credits, Truity, Production Hub, Producers Guild of America, Film Connection, Variety, Wolf Crow, Get In Media, Production Beast, Sony Pictures, Warner Bros, UCAS, Frankenbite, Realty 101, Liberty Me, Careers Hub, Sokanu, Raindance, Film Connection, Cast & Crew, Entertainment Partners, My Job Search, Prospects, David Mullich, Gear Shift, Video University, Oxford Dictionaries’, Boredom Therapy, The Bold Italic, Meets the Eye Studio, The Guardian, Jones on art, Creative Plant, Studio Binder, Film Tool Kit, Still Motion, Film Under Ground, Steves Digicams,

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Production Office / Photo Credit: Atlanta Film Works