Production Assistant (PA)
- Rd Assistant Director/Training Assistant Director/Office Production Assistant/On Set Key PA/Off Set Key PA/Prep & Wrap PA (Pre and Post Production)
- Assisted in the production of up to 100 films and shows throughout the period of 10 years in a variety of roles including pre/post production
- Prepping and protecting the shoot location from public with use of signs often directing city park staff, janitors receiving permissions on what can and cannot be done to the set location and reinforcing those rules to cast & crew
- Initiating production wrap up plan, ensuring shoot location is returned to the original state post production by use of pictures and cameras
- Public Relations work with existing surrounding businesses of the shoot location advising of filming
- Setting up equipment for cast/tents/garbage/dining/maintenance/traffic control and distribution of parking passes
- Safety & first aid attendant part of the safety committee responsible for hazard enforcement exits and fire drills, meeting with fire inspectors and electricians to oversee functionality
- Predict potential obstacles when filming and removing them from where cameras are shooting
- Charging, maintaining and distributing list of walkie talkies, distributing and reviewing scripts, daily call sheets and other paperwork such as schedule changes and revisions facilitating communication between actors, crew and production team
- Approval of invoices, tracking POs escalating financial approvals, mailroom receipt and distribution, select members of WIFI Hubs, schedule onset visitors, report lost or damaged goods and complaints, request of office supplies to the production office via email
- Updating producers and network directors on production outlines and filming process
- Organizing photoshoots, interviews, cast children daycare and tutoring (keeping in mind workability and hours based on Canadian Child Labor Laws)
- Cuing actors and extras through hair, makeup and wardrobe fittings efficiently correcting and relaying any delays in progress to set crew
- Audit to ensure cast members are being handled in alignment to their contracts, filling out time sheets, working with accounting on distribution of hourly rules and regulations
- Arranging for hotel to trailer or set to set transportation travel time based on contracts, documenting vehicle travel time in coordination with production schedule
- Filling out production and incident reports/DPRs (daily production reports- ie who may have been late to meals or production or set) in preparation for potential audit (times must match), coding producer notes, emailing daily reports and adding minutes of scenes
- Planning practical requirements for meals via shopping or organizing catering within a budget, negotiating time between meals and production
