Tier B: two cameras, tripod, portable audio, lights, editing computers.
Tier C: studio, multi-camera tools, graphics, shared storage, and production support.
Complete Production Readiness orientation.
Teacher-approved topic, contributors, locations, and publication boundary.
Use fictional or rights-cleared source material unless the school has approved otherwise.
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 series, season, episode, format, genre, platform, and audience while learning how development producer and commissioning editor contributes to the finished work.
Explain why series, season, episode, format, genre, platform, and audience matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided format comparison using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of research, premise, contributors, representation, feasibility, pitch, and source evidence while learning how researcher and development producer contributes to the finished work.
Explain why research, premise, contributors, representation, feasibility, pitch, and source evidence matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided one-page pitch using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of world, characters or contributors, episode engine, tone, visual language, and access plan while learning how series producer and story editor contributes to the finished work.
Explain why world, characters or contributors, episode engine, tone, visual language, and access plan matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided compact series bible using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of episode arc, beats, scripting, fact checking, collaboration, and revision while learning how writer, story producer, and script editor contributes to the finished work.
Explain why episode arc, beats, scripting, fact checking, collaboration, and revision matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided episode outline and script or treatment using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of breakdown, budget limits, schedule, casting, locations, shot plan, sound, art, and permissions while learning how line producer and production coordinator contributes to the finished work.
Explain why breakdown, budget limits, schedule, casting, locations, shot plan, sound, art, and permissions matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided production book and greenlight using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of rehearsal, coverage, continuity, direction, logging, safety, and backups while learning how director, camera, sound, floor, and production crew contributes to the finished work.
Explain why rehearsal, coverage, continuity, direction, logging, safety, and backups matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided organized pilot rushes using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of story edit, picture, sound, music rights, graphics, color, captions, and review while learning how editor, sound editor, graphics, and accessibility/QC team contributes to the finished work.
Explain why story edit, picture, sound, music rights, graphics, color, captions, and review matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided review cut to final master using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Solve the production problem of pilot package, synopsis, episode list, key art, delivery, audience test, and retrospective while learning how producer, distributor, and audience editor contributes to the finished work.
Explain why pilot package, synopsis, episode list, key art, delivery, audience test, and retrospective matters to the audience and production team.
Complete a guided series presentation package using the course workflow.
Package evidence that another person can review, revise, and hand off.
Standardized practice pack
Television classroom pack
fictional series brief, research pack, format examples, contributor scenarios, script/treatment, production reports, rushes, graphics, music alternatives, continuity faults, caption fixtures Institution distributes large video and audio 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 development producer and commissioning editor and one adjacent role. Ask students what evidence would let a supervisor trust the work. Connect this work to researcher and development producer and one adjacent role. Ask students what evidence would let a supervisor trust the work. Connect this work to series producer and story editor and one adjacent role. Ask students what evidence would let a supervisor trust the work.
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