Skillset UK

Skillset is the UK government's development portal for the film industry, with a whole range of really useful information including job descriptions, skills sets for particular crew roles and links to unit standards. This, for instance is taken from the unit standard on what directors need to know / do in order to understand whether their ideas actually are viable.



D1 INVESTIGATE THE VIABILITY OF IDEAS FOR PRODUCTIONS
This is what you must be able to do
1. ensure you keep yourself up-to-date with trends and developments in the industry including those with relevance to the context of the medium in which you work
2. network to establish good working relationships with people known to possess potential ideas
3. initiate ideas and encourage new ideas from others
4. review and select ideas that meet your own capabilities and objectives or those of your organisation
5. where appropriate,organise the securing of the necessary rights for development and production of potential projects in good time
6. establish with relevant people the commercial and artistic viability and audience appeal
7. appoint and negotiate with relevant people who will bring quality and value to the proposed projects
8. manage the development process by encouraging constructive discussion with relevant people
9. review the development work and base final decisions about the feasibility of projects on appropriate research and discussion
10.collate necessary information to enable the preparation of an attractive pitch to be made to relevant people
11.interact with the producer in the way that best suits their own individual modus operandi and this particular project

This reminds me of the Producer's Profile outlined by the Canadian Cultural HR group, available here.. Use it as a check list and tell us what you need to learn......