Use safe locations and approved contributors only.
No weapons, stunts, pyrotechnics, vehicle work, unsafe heights, or hazardous locations.
Required once before any student production course
Production Readiness: Make Media Safely and Hand It Off
A shared orientation for high-school students covering audience, consent, rights, safety, accessibility, roles, files, versions, and handoff before a production begins.
Translate an idea into an audience promise and observable success criteria.
Identify consent, privacy, rights, safety, accessibility, and publication decisions before recording.
Create a folder, naming, version, backup, and handoff system another student can navigate.
Participate in a respectful crew with a clear role, communication path, and stop-work authority.
Solve the production problem of observation, theme, premise, research, representation, rights, and scope while learning how writer, director, and researcher contributes to the finished work.
Explain why observation, theme, premise, research, representation, rights, and scope matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided story proposal using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of visual action, scenes, dialogue, documentary treatment, table read, and revision while learning how screenwriter and script editor contributes to the finished work.
Explain why visual action, scenes, dialogue, documentary treatment, table read, and revision matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided script or treatment using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of point of view, shot size, perspective, continuity, production design, sound perspective, and access while learning how director, cinematographer, and production designer contributes to the finished work.
Explain why point of view, shot size, perspective, continuity, production design, sound perspective, and access matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided look-and-sound plan using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of breakdown, schedule, roles, locations, contributors, props, permissions, weather, and backup plan while learning how producer and assistant director contributes to the finished work.
Explain why breakdown, schedule, roles, locations, contributors, props, permissions, weather, and backup plan matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided approved production book using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of blocking, coverage, exposure, focus, microphone placement, room tone, slates, and logs while learning how camera, lighting, sound, and performance team contributes to the finished work.
Explain why blocking, coverage, exposure, focus, microphone placement, room tone, slates, and logs matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided technical rehearsal using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of set protocol, role communication, continuity, data handling, daily review, and pickups while learning how director and production crew contributes to the finished work.
Explain why set protocol, role communication, continuity, data handling, daily review, and pickups matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided verified rushes using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of assembly, story pass, continuity, pacing, dialogue, ambience, music, color, and review while learning how picture editor, sound editor, and colorist contributes to the finished work.
Explain why assembly, story pass, continuity, pacing, dialogue, ambience, music, color, and review matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided rough cut to fine cut using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of captions, descriptive transcript, readable titles, intelligible audio, export, QC, and archive while learning how accessibility editor and finishing/QC operator contributes to the finished work.
Explain why captions, descriptive transcript, readable titles, intelligible audio, export, QC, and archive matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided accessible master using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of audience response, critique, authorship credit, reflection, and next-skill planning while learning how director, producer, programmer, and critic contributes to the finished work.
Explain why audience response, critique, authorship credit, reflection, and next-skill planning matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided screening package using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Standardized practice pack
Short-film classroom pack
fictional scripts, documentary prompts, location constraints, storyboards, rushes, production audio, music options, continuity faults, caption fixtures, delivery specifications Institution distributes large source media through its licensed storage or learning system.
Rights and media boundary: the generated coursework defines required fixtures and evidence. Large media should be institution-distributed with rights, consent, checksum, and retention records.
Roles, schedule, handoffs, and contribution are visible
Work depends on undocumented individual effort
Creative and technical craft
20
Intentional image, sound, writing, editing, design, or operation
Choices are accidental or technically uncontrolled
Reliability, organization, and problem solving
15
Files, tests, recovery, revision, and delivery are dependable
The project cannot be opened, checked, or recovered
Ethics, rights, safety, and accessibility
15
People and audiences are respected throughout the workflow
Permissions, safety, access, or representation are incomplete
Delivery, reflection, and career evidence
15
Final package, QC, walkthrough, and next-skill plan are clear
The student cannot explain or hand off the work
Career connection
See where these roles lead
Connect this work to writer, director, and researcher and one adjacent role. Ask students what evidence would let a supervisor trust the work. Connect this work to screenwriter and script editor and one adjacent role. Ask students what evidence would let a supervisor trust the work. Connect this work to director, cinematographer, and production designer and one adjacent role. Ask students what evidence would let a supervisor trust the work.
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