This document discusses pre-production requirements for a digital media project. It covers: 1. The role of BECTU, the media industry trade union, in representing workers, providing training and career advice, and enforcing employment rights and standards. 2. What needs to be considered in pre-production, including pay rates and collective bargaining agreements, insurance requirements, and advice for self-employed contractors. 3. The importance of pre-production planning and documentation in ensuring a project's success, through thorough budgeting, scheduling, and addressing any issues that could impact filming or post-production.

1. BIG PICTURE
LA A – Understanding Pre
Production – task on BECTU (the
media industry Trade Union)
KEYWORDS
Recommended Rates – Collective
Bargaining – Public Liability Insurance –
Contractors and Self Employed Advice –
Networking – Education and Training
LEARNING OBJECTIVES
Evaluate the extent to
which pre-production requirements, processes
and documentation contributes to the success
of planning and delivering a specific digital
media product.
SUCCESS CRITERIA
Detailed notes on BECTU and its
role
Take your seat. Bag under your desk.
Have your equipment and planner out.
Topic – Unit 4 – Pre Production
• What's the difference between being employed and being self-employed?

2. TELL ME
STUFF!
TAKE ME
THROUGH
IT…
LET ME
HAVE A
GO…
DO I GET
IT?
1 2 3 4 5 6
SETTING THE
SCENE
JOINING UP
LEARNING
LINKS TO LAST
TIME
PASSING ON
KNOWLEDGE
GUIDED PRACTICE
& MODELLING
INDEPENDENT
PRACTICE –
APPLYING THE
SKILLS TO NEW
SITUATIONS
ASSESSMENT &
FEEDBACK
PULL IT TOGETHER
JOINING UP
LEARNING
LINKS TO NEXT
TIME

3. BECTU
The Broadcasting, Entertainment and
Communications Trades Union
1. Media production (even in the notriously anti-union USA)
is a unionised industry – you are entitled to and expected
to be a member of the union
2. Unions carry out a range of roles for their members –
career advice, training, representation, advocacy, and
overseeing compliance of employment rights
3. This is particularly significant in an industry where almost
everyone is a self-employed sub contractor or, at most, on
short term contracts (and effectively there's virtually no
difference btween those two things.)
• Kate Nash on going from
working in the music industry to
working in television
• "It has also showed her
that creative industries can
be professional and
unionised"

4. What do you need to write about?
• Pay rates and conditions of employment
• Collective bargaining for their members across
different areas of the media
• Providing insurance – especially public liability
insurance
• Giving advice about managing self-employment
and sub-contracting
• Facilitating professional networking
• Providing education, training and career
development
• Use my notes to write
up your own
• Write it up in a
powerpoint – short
bullet points, short
explanations – in your
own words

5. And Then - Distinction
At every stage of this Learning Aim, you
need to be paying attention to the
following:-
Evaluate the extent to which pre-
production requirements, processes
and documentation contributes to
the success of planning and
delivering a specific digital media
product.
This is the distinction criteria for this
learning aim.
For example, learners will observe that thorough
planning of all financial costs for the production will
ensure that the production meets its initial budget, that
the time consuming nature of filming is planned for in
pre-production and is aided by the logistics of the
operation. A rejection of permission to film in a location
during the pre-production phase might result in a change
of location, with planning still possible ahead of shooting
the film, or learners will observe that poor logistical
planning resulted in a financial overspend, or a failure to
check the copyright of the music resulted in a last
minute change of music that had a negative impact on
the final animation.
Exam Board Guidance

7. BIG PICTURE MY LEARNING
How did this
lesson fit into
your other
lessons?
What is my top
take- away from
the lesson?
Have you contributed to the lesson? Will you be able to improve
next lesson? Do you know what you need to go away and do?
o Have you kept up?
o Have you covered the different
issues for the BBFC, OFCOM
and the ASA?
o Have you included information
about relevant laws?
o Have you related this to your
Unit 10 horror film?