Key terms and info

Key Terms and Information Types of Media Production:
Television, film, websites, animation, advertising, digital print

Types of Brief:

Formal Informal: Includes detailed informations about what the client wants the company to achieve, normally remains from unwanted/ unneeded material.
Negotiated Contractual: When a client and employer comes to an agreement incorporating the final ideas of both.
Tender Commissioned: When large corporations employ a smaller company to create the project/product for them.

KEY WORDS

Entertainment: Gaining the attention of an audience so that they relax and enjoy the
activity
Information: Providing facts about a topic or answering a question
Promotion: Raising the awareness of a product in potential customers. This in turn can increase the popularity of a brand
Revenue Stream: A method of raising money for a project. Revenue streams contain elements of unpredictability, risk and return
Sponsorship: Money paid for a brand to be associated with final media production. This can involve the placement of a brand name or logo on the final product or telling the viewer who a TV product is sponsored by.
Crowdfunding: How finance can be generated for a project or idea conceived by amateurs or professionals, which is promoted via social media networks and funded by public contributions through websites such as Kickstarter.
Corporate Finance: The raising of money from businesses willing to invest in a project. The business must be convinced that they will receive more money back in the long run from their investment. Investment returns are measured over long timeframes, such as ten years for films
Advertising: monetary payments from brands and organisations in return for the placement of promotional material on pages or during a production. This could include the placement of products within a media product such as within a scene of a TV show.
Franchising: The intellectual property of the original product is licensed

Milestones: checkpoints built into tasks so that the media production allows tracking of performance against a deadline
Gantt Chart: A timeline schedule of tasks with resources allocated to them. Uses blocks of colour to symbolise periods of time in a visual way
Production Schedule: An overall view of a media production with all the tasks, resources and timescales included
Contingency: A back up resource, extra time or budget allocated to a task, alternative location etc
Proposal: A formal written plan produced for others to assess the validity of a project
Pitch: Planned presentation of a project to possibly gain support and financial backing
High Concept document: One page document summarising a project
Laws:
Freedom of Information Act Intellectual Property Act: Gives rights of public access to information held by public authorities
Data Protection Act: esigned to protect personal data stored on computers or in an organised paper filing system
Copyright, Designs and Patents 1988: prevents copyright.

Regulators:

ASA: British Board of Film Classification, creates age ratings
BBFC: Advertising Standards Authority
 PEGI: Pan European game info, provides age ratings
OFCOM: UK communication regulator
PRS: Protects the value of music by licensing 
 IPSO: Independent press organisation
W3C: World Wide Web consortium, develops protocalls and guidelines to ensure long term web growth.

Types of production document:

Call Sheet: The schedule crafted by the assistant director, issued to the cast and crew informing them where and when to be somewhere.
Production Schedule Asset log:
Risk Assessment Location Recce Storyboard
Shooting Script Concept Art Visualisation Diagram Flat Plan
Prototype: an early sample of a product

Page mock up: a scale or full-size model of a design or device, used for teaching, demonstration, design evaluation, promotion etc
Set Design
Site Structure Diagram: lay and placement of the set (e.g. props)