DV Talent's Winter Warmer Offer - Mastering Cost Managers (Unscripted)

ScreenSkills

This course is eligible for bursary funding.

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This one-day intensive workshop will help to reconcile your fears… and your top sheet. 

Our highly experienced Head of Production will take you through the fundamentals of the cost manager with tips and tricks when moving money and how it correlates with a budget and schedule. 

After lunch, you’ll be dealing with real world scenarios, how to get costs down, managing overspends and dealing with quotes. 

Following this practical, hands-on training, dealing with the production finances will no longer be a balancing act… 

- Please note the Winter Warmer offer is valid until 3rd February (course date) 

This course is aimed at;

New PMs

JPMs

Coordinators involved in CMs, ready to step up to JPM / PM 

There are no requirements

- Initial and ongoing forecasting in the cost manager 

- Working with Schedules and Cost Managers 

- Managing costs 

- Managing overspends / direct links to CM 

- Moving money in the CM 

- Handling & negotiating Quotes 

Viki Carter is a hugely experienced Production Consultant and Trainer with over two decades of experience in Production Management, starting out as a Production Secretary and rising through the ranks to Head of Production at indies large and small.   Her work has spanned non-scripted formats, documentaries, and entertainment shows from Interior Design Masters (BBC1) to Andrew Lloyd Webber's Superstar (ITV1) to Secrets of the Salisbury Poisonings (Discovery+). Viki is passionate about nurturing the next generation of production managers and now spends much of her time training in all areas of production management with a particular fondness for negotiating and managing money!

Times

930 - 530 - please arrive by 915 for meet / greets and a cuppa 

Location

Cancellation Policy

Cancellations must be in writing and must be received at least 10 working days prior to the course date or the full fee will be charged. DV Talent reserves the right to cancel courses at any time (e.g. if there are insufficient enrolments) without liability, and delegates will be offered an alternative date or full refund. In booking a course, you are acknowledging you have read and accepted our Terms and Conditions.