Level 2 Overview
Level 2 builds on reliably delivering shoots suitable for release, and introduces additional requirements around communication standards. Problems with shoots created by Shoot Producers on Level 2 have some leeway for improvement before the Shoot Producer is regressed to Level 1.
Prerequisites for advancing to Level 2
When a Shoot Producer has made three Solo shoots in row that are 3-assessed, they move to Level 2 Solo shoots.
Conditions for Level 2
The main difference between L1 and L2 Solo shoots is that Shoot Producers on Level 2 are no longer required to wait for a shoot review before their next shoot or before they invoice us: they can invoice us at the end of the calendar month, for all the shoots they made in that calendar month. Thus, we assume their shoots are 3-assessed, and they charge us the 3-assessed rate.
The minimum standards for shoots at Level 2 are;
| Requirement | Standard expected |
|---|---|
| Must-Haves | 100% shot; at least 85% meet requirements. |
| Posing Level percentage | Met for both Stills and Video components. NDE and OL Expected: 50% (acceptable minimum: 45%) EXP and INS expected: 35% (acceptable minimum: 30%) |
| Tech | One problems with tech assessment areas - Framing, WB, audio, exposure, lighting, closeups, focus / DoF, grooming, clothing selection, location selection (see full technical assessment criteria), but shoot is releasable on abbywinters.com. |
| Solo assessment areas | These Solo assessment areas have a reasonable attempt made, and five of them are acceptable; 🐢 Sexiness, not continuity 🐢 Strongly fetish- and SUBA-based 🐢 Adopt a tease-payoff, tease-payoff approach 🐢 Clothing used effectively 🐢 Actively use very personal props 🐢 Video only: Conversation exposes model’s unique personality 🐢 Video only: Models moves and is active |
Shoot Producers invoice Solo shoots at the Level 2 rate.
Level 2 has a requirement for Shoot Producers to communicate well and be responsive to requests from Booking Model Liaisons for booking, to enable the efficient booking of future shoots. To be clear, the company does not expect Shoot Producers to be “always available” to make shoots for abbywinters.com, only to communicate their availability, so we can efficiently make bookings that suit models and Shoot Producers.
The requirements are;
- A response time of 48 hours to requests from the Booking Model Liaison (sooner is preferred);
- To make availability commitments for the next rolling 4 weeks; and
- Let the Booking Model Liaison know about changes to previously-notified availability, within 48 hours of the change.
Level 2 Shoot Producers must complete MMI for each shoot within 48 hours of the shoot concluding (or, for a back-to-back block of shoots, withing 48 hours of the last shoot in that block concluding).
The Shoot Producer may share their “blackout” times when they are not available and will not respond within the given timeframes (for example, on holiday; on another job), when this requirement will not apply. These may be recurring (eg, “I can never respond on Wednesdays”), or once off (eg, “next week, I am going hiking and will not have access to my emails or phone service”).
Level 2 has a requirement to communicate with models promptly;
- Send initial contact message to the model within four days of being introduced
- For example, “Hey Mary, I’ll be working with you as your Shoot Producer for your upcoming Solo shoot for abbywinters.com. I’ll be in contact with more details soon, but for now…”
- Or, “Hey Jane, great to hear we’ve been booked to make another shoot! I’ll be in contact with more details soon, but for now…”
- Provide the model with information on their accommodation / shoot location (as applicable) at least two days before the shoot day
- So, for a shoot booked for Friday, the Model needs to know the details no later than Wednesday morning
Locations Allowance for Level 2 (“Depressors”)
Shoots made by Shoot Producers on Level 2 attract a fee for the Location Allowance, for applicable shoots.
Advancing from Level 2 to Level 3 (“Exciters”)
Shoot Producers advance from Level 2 to Level 3 Solo shoots when they deliver three shoots in a row that are edited to have;
- All Must Haves for both mediums
- Posing Level met or exceeded
- No trend of assessment areas consistently assessed as 1 or 2
- Defined as, an assessment area assessed as 1 or 2 in three out of the last five Solo shoots created.
For example;
SP Laura creates three shoots in a row with perfect Must Haves and highest Posing Level % 🎈.
In shoot one everything was 3-assessed.
In shoot two, Laura gets a 2-assessment for Tease-Payoff.
In shoot three, Laura gets a 2 assessment for Personal Props (but her tease-pay off assessment is a 3).
The errors do not indicate a trend of poor results in any one assessment area, so SP Laura can increase to Level 3.
Contrast that with this example;
SP Dillan creates three shoots in a row that all have perfect Must Haves and highest Posing Level % 🎈.
In shoot one, everything was 3-assessed.
In shoot two, Dillan gets a 2-assessment for Clothing Use.
In shoot three, Dillan gets another 2-assessment for Clothing Use!
Dillan cannot increase to Level 3 – he needs to work on his Clothing Use in the shoots he creates.
When a Shoot Producer graduates to Level 3, one of the three shoots they graduated with gets a Thorough shoot review. With this feedback, the Shoot Producer works to improve their subsequent shoots with a view to succeeding in the Level 3 framework.
Points are assigned based on each shoot’s assessment (see How do “points” relate to Levels?).
Regressing from Level 2 to Level 1
Shoot Producers regress to Level 1 when there are serious quality problems in the Still or Video component of three shoots in a five-shoot run. We consider “serious problems” to be any one of:
- Have same Assessment area mistake made
- For example, MMaiA poor in shoots 1, 3 and 4 of last five shoots
- Significant ongoing lighting, exposure, audio issues
- Less than 79% Must Haves shot to spec
- For example, an OL shoot has 20 Must haves (when all are shot, we consider this 100% Must Haves). If only 15 Must Haves were usable in final edit, 75% of the Must Have requirement is met
- Less than 79% of expected Posing Level at highest level
- For example, OL shoot expects 50% of edited media at OL. Submitted shoot has 100 images when edited. Expected 50 OL images (100%), actually only 30 OL images (60%).
- A Shoot Producer has been on Level 2 for 15 consecutive shoots is regressed to Level 1
- This is to discourage Shoot Producers from “coasting” on Level 2.