Elements and Performance Criteria
- Maintain appearance of special effects items
- Liaise with relevant personnel to confirm appearance of special effects items
- Check special effects items for dirt, stains or marks
- Clean special effects items, ensuring that delicate or problem materials are serviced with care
- Apply new paint or other finish to required areas where appropriate
- Ensure that special effects are always accurately labelled, coded and stored according to enterprise procedures
- Repair special effects items
- Identify faults, rips or breakages in special effects items
- In consultation with relevant personnel, agree on minor repairs to be made according to individual level of responsibility
- Use appropriate techniques and materials to complete minor repairs to special effects items
- Organise repair of special effects items requiring specialist expertise in line with enterprise procedures
- Complete documentation in accordance with enterprise procedures
- Follow up specialist repairs to ensure that special effects items are available on location and functioning correctly in line with production schedules
- Advise relevant personnel of any repair-related problems that require attention in a timely manner
- Make alterations to special effects
- Liaise with relevant personnel to identify alterations that need to be made
- Read and interpret instructions for the required alterations
- Complete alterations to special effects items or refer to relevant personnel, according to individual level of responsibility
- Observe relevant OHS and public safety legislative requirements while repairing and maintaining special effects items
- Complete relevant workplace documentation in accordance with enterprise procedures
- Maintain special effects items during productions
- Assist with the safe packing and loading of special effects items for transportation to production locations
- Confirm with relevant personnel techniques, materials and tools required to assemble special effects items on location
- Participate in ongoing discussions throughout the assembly process to ensure that special effects design requirements are met
- Store partially finished special effects items and equipment during the assembly phase to avoid loss or damage
- Assemble and disassemble special effects items throughout productions in line with production requirements, ensuring that continuity of appearance of items is maintained
- Disassemble special effects items at the conclusion of productions and safely pack and load them for transportation