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SARAH ROSS MCCLEAN  
  PRODUCTION MANAGER
Sarah McClean
Years Experience: 14 Years
Mobile: 07984 935 777
Email Address: sr.mcclean@hotmail.com
About Me: I am a resourceful and dynamic Production Manager, a safe pair of hands with skills and confidence developed over 10 years in Broadcast Television Production at the BBC with 4 years Freelance. My strengths are in the development, planning and scheduling of multiple Documentary projects through to delivery, from small to large budgets, single programmes to high volume new strands, controlling, monitoring and cost reporting production spend and accounts, negotiating and scheduling with Co-producers inc Discovery, BBC World Wide, DCTP & the OU.
I have comprehensive knowledge of broadcast contractual requirements, copyright and clearance procedures with extensive experience of developing and scheduling Film, Post Production and high end CGI workflows, negotiating and hiring facilities and resources across complex multiple productions. Overseeing filming in the UK to extreme and hazardous overseas locations, compiling extensive risk assessments and managing insurance and Health and Safety requirements.

Other Skills: INDUSTRY TRAINING – BBC: Training Dates: July 02 to Jan 08.
Safe Management of Productions Parts 1 & 2.
Skill set in Hazard Assessment.
Dealing with Trauma.
Bespoke Production Management.
Managing Performance.
HR for non HR Managers.
Fair Selection.
Personal Effectiveness.
Negotiating Skills.
Post Production workflows.
Drama Production Management.
HD Production.
Multi Platform Workflows & budgeting.
Overseas Experience   Foreign Filming Experience In
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Antigua and Barbuda
Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Canada
China
France
Germany
Ireland
Italy
Jamaica
Saint Lucia
Sierra Leone
United States of America
Languages  
LanguageFluency
English & Portuguese Basic Portuguese (Brazilian)
Specialist Areas  
Documentaries Reality
Light Entertainment Hi Definition
Magazine Programmes  
Additional Skills  
Archive Health And Safety
CGI Video FX Extreme Filming Geographical
Underwater Filming Negotiating a contract with a broacaster

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Credits  
FIGHT FOR LIFE
Production Company: BBC
On Screen Credit: Production Manager
Programme Type: Documentary
Broadcaster: BBC
6x 60 Min Episodes - BBC1 - BBC Worldwide/ Discovery /DCTP (Germany) Co Production Series combining powerful human stories & advanced CGI to show from inside our bodies battle to keep us alive. RTS Award for Best Digital Graphics 2007. Complete Series research & development, planning, scheduling & contracting - Aug 05 to Aug 06. Handover to PM/Line Producer Oct 06. Extensive developmental Research into effective filming, Post & CGI technology.Recruiting, scheduling & managing a large Editorial staff of 43. Complex filming & Postproduction scheduling. Negotiation & scheduling with Co-producers securing adaptable contracts to enable extensive deliverables. Groundbreaking CGI technology combined with OB’s Doc style shooting on HDV - FCP on location. Implemented extensive H&S &, trauma counselling, compliance & legal requirements. Tendered, negotiated & secured flexible copyright deals & contracts with CGI Producers.
CLIMATE CHAOS
Production Company: BBC
On Screen Credit: Production Manager
Programme Type: Documentary
Broadcaster: BBC
2x 60 Min Eps. - BBC1 & 1x 60 Min EP. for Discovery – BBC WW/OU/Discovery Co-Pro. Sir David Attenborough looked to establish whether human beings were having an adverse effect upon our climate. Schedule planning, contract & workflow negotiation with Discovery Executives to meet a five month production turnaround. Filming across continents in extreme & hazardous locations – Glacial ice flows in Patagonia to the jungle canopy in South America. Ambitious CGI carbon realisation models created in very short time scale to work with archive and GFX.
A CHILD AGAINST ALL ODDS
Production Company: BBC
On Screen Credit: Production Manager
Programme Type: Documentary
Broadcaster: BBC
6x 60 Min Eps. - BBC1 - BBC WW/Discovery Co Production. Two years in the making, Professor Robert Winston’s series looks at the amazing fertility treatments & the lengths couple go to. A series involving a 2-year complex filming & Post production schedule, capturing a vast amount of Producer/Director self shot actuality of IVF stories from inception to birth.
TEEN TERRORS TO TEEN ANGELS
Production Company: BBC
On Screen Credit: Production Manager
Programme Type: Documentary
Broadcaster: BBC
6 x 60 Min Eps. BBC3 - BBC/WW Building on the effective management of the highly successful Little Angels Strand where child Psychologist Dr Tanya Byron delivered peace to harassed parents, the Executive Producer & myself originated the format, schedule & budget for another hugely successful strand - Teen Angels.
DEATH DETECTIVE
Production Company: BBC
On Screen Credit: Production Manager
Programme Type: Documentary
Broadcaster: BBC
5x 30 Min Eps - BBC3 Forensic pathologist Dr Dick Shepherd investigates the mysteries of the dead – Drama reconstruction of police cases & autopsies.
TEEN ANGELS
Production Company: BBC
On Screen Credit: Production Manager
Programme Type: Documentary
Broadcaster: BBC
6 x 60 Min Eps - BBC/WW Co-Pro. Complete Unit Management.
MEDICAL MYSTERIES
Production Company: BBC
On Screen Credit: Production Manager
Programme Type: Documentary
Broadcaster: BBC
4x 60 Min Eps - BBC/WW Co-Pro Complex long form films – combining Drama Recon with archive - exploring extraordinary medical cases that have baffled the experts. The Awakening, The Madness of King George III, Lorenzo`s Oil & Mystery Of the Forgotten Plague.
LITTLE ANGELS SERIES 2 & 3
Production Company: BBC
On Screen Credit: Production Manager
Programme Type: Documentary
Broadcaster: BBC
32 x 30 Min Eps. BBC3 - BBC/WW Co-Pro. Complete Unit Management.
THE GUINEA PIG CLUB
Production Company: BBC
On Screen Credit: Production Manager
Programme Type: Documentary
Broadcaster: BBC
1 x60 min Ep - BBC4 - BBC/WW Co-Pro - Exploring the story behind The Guinea Pig Club – a social network for horrifically disfigured WWII pilots. Drama Recon with Archive.
AFRICAN ER
Production Company: BBC
On Screen Credit: Production Manager
Programme Type: Documentary
Broadcaster: BBC
2 x30 Min Eps - BBC3 - BBC/WW Co-Pro - Where people with terrible disfigurements trek thousands of miles - to a war ravaged port , for surgery aboard a floating hospital run by Christian missionaries. Ob’s Doc shot entirely on location in the high risk region of Sierra Leone in West Africa.
MUTANT MOUSE
Production Company: BBC
On Screen Credit: Production Manager
Programme Type: Documentary
Broadcaster: BBC
1 x60 Min Ep - BBC3 - BBC/WW Co-Pro - A story combining drama recon with archive - looking into how research carried out on mice played a crucial part in treating disease.
MONEY PROGRAMME
Production Company: BBC
On Screen Credit: Production Manager
Programme Type: Documentary
Broadcaster: BBC
18 x 30 Min Eps & 3 x40 Min Specials - BBC/WW Co-Pro - Spring, Summer & Winter Series – BBC 2 Factual Investigative Business Series.