The Assistant Location Manager supports the location manager throughout the project by researching, visiting, and photographing the best location options.
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Working Life
The Assistant Location Manager supports the location manager throughout the project by researching, visiting, and photographing the best location options.
Role and Responsibilities
- Work to maintain health and safety requirements and ensure all crew are informed of these requirements in each location.
- Prepare movement orders for crew to travel to locations by the best and safest routes.
- Organise reconnaissance visits to locations in advance of filming and notify departments of their responsibilities in relation to different locations.
- Responsible for organising parking requirements, managing traffic control with police and local authorities, and ensuring there is no damage to property during shooting.
- Ensure locations are left clean and reinstated after shooting.
Works with
- Supervising Location Manager
- Location Manager
- Transporter Manager
- Rest of the crew
- The Public
Qualities - Assistant Location Manager
Is this role right for me?
For this role, you need:
Ability to research potential locations and present relevant information to the location manager to on time.
Strong communication skills and the ability to create easily understood directions for crew to get to location and to effectively explain filming plans to both crew and the public.
Strong knowledge and understanding of specific statutory health and safety requirements for each location.
Ability to plan the requirements of various vehicles at each location and devising parking plans.
Excellent organisational and time-keeping skills.
Interests - Assistant Location Manager
This occupation is typically suited for people with the following Career Interests:
Enterprising
Enterprising people like situations that involve using resources for personal or corporate economic gain. Such people may have an opportunistic frame of mind, and are drawn to commerce, trade and making deals. Some pursue sales and marketing occupations. Many will eventually end up owning their own business, or in management roles in larger organisations. They tend to be very goal-oriented and work best when focused on a target. Some have an entrepreneurial inclination.
Creative
Creative people are drawn to careers and activities that enable them to take responsibility for the design, layout or sensory impact of something (visual, auditory etc). They may be atrracted to the traditional artistic pursuits such as painting, sculpture, singing, or music. Or they may show more interest in design activities, such as architecture, animation, or craft areas, such as pottery and ceramics.
Creative people use their personal understanding of people and the world they live in to guide their work. Creative people like to work in unstructured workplaces, enjoy taking risks and prefer a minimum of routine.
Entry / Progression - Assistant Location Manager
Education Route: Relevant health and safety training is essential if you wish to excel in this role.
Career Path to Assistant Location Manager: There are no usual career paths for the assistant location manager. They often will have worked their way through the location department, starting as a Locations trainee. Experience working on-set in the location department is vital to this role.
Career Path from Assistant Location Manager: Location Manager, Supervising Location Manager, Production Manager.
