Manage your own work on productions

This Standard is about managing your own work on productions so that you work in a productive way. This includes understanding your role on each production and how it relates to others, producing work of the expected quality, complying with confidentiality and data security requirements and responding positively to changing requirements and circumstances. This Standard could apply to anybody working on productions.

1. make sure you work to the brief and to meet expected quality

   standards

   2. manage your own time so that your work is delivered on schedule

   3. exchange information about your work with people who need to

   know at appropriate times

   4. seek help or advice from appropriate people when limitations in

   your knowledge or expertise will impact on schedule, budget or

   quality

   5. use reliable information to interpret problems and find solutions to

   best achieve desired outputs

   6. use feedback in a constructive way to revise work when required

   7. maintain confidentiality about specific productions in line with

   company and production requirements

   8. identify when changes requested by others will have an adverse

   effect on budget, timescales, end result or other parts of the work

   and communicate this in an appropriate manner

   9. maintain security of files and other material in line with company

   requirements

   10. provide work to others in appropriate formats for productions and

   companies in which you are working

   11. keep up to date with emerging practice and changes in software

   and associated technology using information from reliable sources

   12. seek out learning and networking opportunities that will be

   beneficial to you

1. the workflow and how your role and the roles of others in

   production and post production fit into it

   2. how your role and responsibilities may need to change to handle

   the different requirements of different productions

   3. the implications of your decisions on the budgets and resources

   with which you are involved

   4. the brief for each production and how to interpret requirements

   and parameters

   5. how and when to ask questions to improve your practice

   6. how to react appropriately and deal with feedback, criticism and

   additional requests

   7. how to adapt workflow and plan solutions to deal with the

   unexpected

   8. how to work as part of a team

   9. the benefits of reusing or adapting previous ideas or work

   10. how to manage media, meta data and codes

   11. company systems for storage, back up and security

   12. who to ask for help

   13. how to use online resources to learn tips and find out what others

   are doing

   14. how to constructively query and challenge others decisions and

   when it is appropriate to do so

   15. the limitations of the software you use both in what you do and

   where you can work

   16. available networking and learning opportunities and how to

   access them

   17. why it is important to remain flexible, adaptable and positive to

   new directions, creative requirements and technical developments