Overview

This standard is about working with the performers and the production team to confirm and record the agreed intimate actions to take place on a production. The documentation you will be responsible for includes risk overview for script breakdown, notes for nudity riders, individual scene risk assessments, cast and crew memos, closed set protocols, specialist content protocols, wrap reports.

This will also involve providing support and advice to performers and production team on the language and use of nudity waivers and riders. A nudity waiver or rider is a contractual document between the production and performer which allows the production to shoot footage showing nudity levels and performance of simulated sex.

This standard is for intimacy coordinators.

 

Performance Criteria

You must be able to:

  1. maintain lines of communication with performers who are undertaking intimate actions
  2. work with the performer to confirm the levels of nudity and/or simulated sex action(s) they agree will be performed for specific scenes and how these will be depicted
  3. work with the performer to confirm the levels of touch and physicality in the scene
  4. assist the production team or legal department with preparing the wording for the rider or waiver for nudity and/or simulated sex action(s)
  5. work with the producer to agree on how to delegate rider or waiver-based tasks and updates prior to shoot day
  6. maintain agreed lines of communication with the production team
  7. monitor the production schedule and respond to any changes that affect agreed intimate actions and require consent
  8. provide support and advice to performers and crew if there are changes to the production that may affect the intimate actions agreed
  9. negotiate with production team and performers to reach agreement to continue with production
  10. advise on any additional resources needed, including specialist equipment and professional support
  11. report issues that affect the execution of intimate scenes including mismanaged closed sets, artist discomfort, sexual harassment or unethical behaviour, either in front of, or behind the camera
  12. update and maintain intimacy records in line with data protection, production processes and contractual agreements

 

Knowledge and Understanding 

You need to know and understand:

  1. how to provide advice and guidance on the completion of nudity riders for performers undertaking intimate actions
  2. how to maintain agreed lines of communication with the production team
  3. how to obtain details of the levels of nudity and states of undress and how they will be depicted
  4. how to obtain details of the simulated sex action(s) and how it will be depicted
  5. how to liaise with the performer to obtain details of any vulnerable areas of the body which the artist does not agree to be seen on camera
  6. how to confirm limits of any additional or digital manipulations to the performer’s body and likeness
  7. clauses detailing closed set protocols, still photography, destruction or storage of unused material
  8. how the role interacts with other roles such as Access coordinators, Wellbeing facilitators, Chaperones and other support professionals
  9. who to report problems or difficulties to as they arise
  10. the legislation and policies relating to consent and intimacy riders for productions
  11. how to maintain intimacy records in line with data protection, production processes and contractual agreements

 

Scope and range 

Nudity and intimate content

  • Full Nudity: Includes Full Frontal Nudity, Full Back Nudity/Full Rear Nudity
  • Semi-Nudity/Partial Nudity: Nudity Above the Waist: Nudity Below the Waist
  • Additional Artist Specific Areas
  • State Of Undress
  • Implied Nudity
  • Simulated Sex
  • Implied Sex
  • Body Double
  • Digital Nudity

IC Documentation

  • Intimacy risk assessments
  • Intimacy breakdown
  • Trackers
  • Choreographic notes
  • Consent level notes
  • Cast and crew memos
  • Nudity rider notes
  • Wrap reports

Professional support

  • Access coordinator and Disability consultant
  • Wellbeing facilitator
  • Medic
  • Stunt coordinator
  • Midwife advisor/consultant
  • Gender/Trans/LGBTQIA+ consultant
  • BDSM/Fetish consultant
  • Cultural consultant
  • Historical consultant
  • Chaperone