Elements and Performance Criteria
- Clarify sound-recording brief
- Participate in production meetings with relevant personnel to confirm the vision, sound concepts, production values and expected outcomes for recording projects
- Confirm production requirements
- Finalise and confirm repertoire, artists and operational details for recording projects in consultation with relevant personnel
- Organise resources
- Identify and confirm production staff requirements and recruit personnel needed for recording projects
- Ensure artists are secured, confirmed and contracted as required
- Identify and secure appropriate venues and resources for rehearsal and recording sessions
- Ensure that contracts required for staff and venues are finalised
- Prepare for production of sound recordings
- Ensure that arrangements are in place for ongoing communication with relevant personnel so that artistic vision can be achieved and resources are available when required
- Ensure that accurate rehearsal and recording session schedules are drawn up and distributed to relevant personnel
- Ensure that a project schedule for production meetings is finalised and distributed to each technical team member
- Anticipate issues that may arise during the production of sound recordings and plan accordingly
- Ensure that the technical team is fully briefed on operations, production values and contingency plans
- Comply with relevant OHS, copyright and other legal requirements
- Manage recording sessions
- Ensure that communication in sessions and production meetings is comprehensive and constructive and that documentation is completed correctly
- Ensure that all production resources and requirements are in place for recording sessions and other associated activities
- Communicate systematically with the producer/director to verify and maintain the required production quality
- Communicate with and direct production staff constructively and consistently through prerecording, recording and post-production to achieve agreed production values
- Comply with agreed quality, time and budget constraints at all stages of the production
- Maintain effective communication with production staff and artists
- Ensure that agendas for production meetings are planned and circulated to all relevant parties in advance and that discussion of concerns is encouraged to establish and achieve planned artistic outcomes
- Ensure that individual perspectives are considered and conflicting requirements are recognised and constructively negotiated
- In collaboration with relevant personnel, ensure that the quality of musical and technical preparation is maintained throughout the production and take action as required
- Manage post-production
- Ensure that all components of post-production mix meet agreed production values
- Facilitate continuing input from artists and director/producer into the post-production process and take remedial action as required
- Ensure that the physical components of post-production are delivered correctly and in the required formats
- Evaluate production of sound recordings
- Discuss and obtain agreement from relevant personnel about evaluation techniques
- Focus evaluations on the way the process of managing sound recordings was handled and document results
- Evaluate own role in operations and note areas for improvement
- Provide feedback to team members on their performance as required
- Document evaluation of operations in line with enterprise procedures