Skillset Media Academy Network Message:

Skillset is consulting with Post-Production employers and employees regarding Post-Production Standards: Industry feedback required.

Dear Post Production Colleague,

If you work in Post Production you might have often been worried about the skills of new entrants coming into the industry. Sometimes it seems that the right skills aren’t being taught, and the right training isn’t available.

Working through Skillset’s Media Academy network, we want to ensure you get the right skills, but we need your assistance.

Skillset wants to create what are called new Occupational Standards in Post Production that can be used in turn to create new qualifications.

This is a big challenge for our industry, because these standards will be recognized by government and the ensuing qualifications can be embedded in education, enabling universities and colleges to produce industry-savvy practitioners who have the right mix of skills to feed your industry. It’s not going to happen overnight, but the best chance of it happening at all is with the industry’s input.

If you consider yourself to be working in any section of the Post Production industry, we’d like you to look at the DRAFT work Skillset has done already and help them make it better. Please go to http://skillsetnews.org/2KF-2YD/s2.aspx , download any docs that relate to your expertise and comment on what you think by filling in the online questionnaire. Give as much time to this as you want, even a little help. This is not a bureaucratic or academic exercise - real change in education and training can come from this, but only with your assistance.

Your help is greatly appreciated!

The Skillset Facilities Skills Council
Terry Smith, VET (Chair, Skillset Facilities Council)
Mike Smith, (Deputy Chair) Director, Alias Smith and Singh
Simon Frodsham, Managing Director, Independent Post
Antony Hunt, Managing Director, Cinesite (Europe) Ltd
Simon Kanjee, Managing Director, Evolutions
David Peto, MD, All-In Group
Mike Kelt, Chief Executive, Artem Ltd
Bryn Roberts Managing Director, Barcud Derwen Ltd
Pat Styles, National Official, BECTU

Saint John Walker Facilities Manager, Skillset