Skills Checklists

ScreenSkills and The Rough Assembly have recently embarked on a groundbreaking and important new project, supported by the HETV Skills Fund to deliver Skills checklists for crew working in the Editorial Department.

Our aims are to:

Provide core information about the responsibilities and skills for each role in the first set of crew led guidelines
Show the differences between the roles of 1st Assistant Editor, 2nd Assistant Editor and Editorial Trainee
Create skill lists that can feed into job descriptions and guide hiring processes
Define the roles to manage expectations and safeguard crew from exploitation and unfair treatment
Supplement the Assistant Editor’s Toolkit with resources you can use to to plan your skills development

The checklists are flexible enough to be tailored by the department, production, or company to fit the role, genre and budget band of a production.

Over the past few months Arthur Harrison, Louisa Hawkins, Eleanor Adler and Christopher Chow have worked with Screen Skills to develop and lead crew consultations on these draft checklists. Thank you to our colleagues who lent their expertise and support which was invaluable.

Following this work, we are now going out to the wider industry consultation period to gather further feedback and would appreciate your feedback on your job role to ensure the lists are comprehensive, representative, and accurate.

Please see the links to each skills checklist below and you can fill in the consultation form here https://forms.office.com/e/sUqVs5RVaX.

We would appreciate your time and thoughts by feeding back by 12 noon on Monday 15th July.