The document outlines the experience required to become a producer or director, including managing teams, strong negotiating skills, and experience with casting and making editorial decisions. While technical skills are helpful, there are no strict requirements to become a producer. Common career paths include starting as a journalist, researcher, or assistant and progressing to more senior roles over time. Producers and directors work under constant stress and pressure with short-term assignments, so they often hold multiple jobs.

1. Producer/Director
Experience would be required in producing films at edit stage; managing a team; building
narrative. You would be an accomplished self-starter with strong negotiating and research
skills; sound knowledge of producer guidelines and the law as it affects journalists.
You will need to have experience with casting characters and making key editorial decisions.
Technically there is no requirements to become a filmer/producer, however a knowledge
about cameras and film production helps a lot, you can’t just roll onto the scene and
because a top camera man.Also work experience would help.
Common career paths would be to train as a journalist in print, radio or as a researcher in
television. From there progressing to senior researcher in television, then an Assistant
Producer and then Producer and/or Director. Technical skills in Production such as Camera,
Sound, Lighting, Editing, Art, and Engineering are also common career paths. You will always
find directors who for example, perhaps did a Politics degree, then were sound recordists
and then a Director. Producers of TV Drama for example, can come from a variety of
backgrounds and routes. They may have done Drama or English at university; they may have
worked in the theatre afterwards and then progressed to script reading or writing, or
continuity in television. But there are Producers who did none of these things, and took
other routes such as moving from Production Secretary to Producer.
Producers and directors work under a lot of pressure, and most are under constant stress to
find their next job. Work assignments are usually short, ranging from 1 day to a few months.
Therefore, they also often hold another job to make a living.