Production Diary 3: Pitch to the client and feedback

25th April 2017 3:10pm


Production Video Log/dairy Entry 3- Pitching to the client


Team working and Liaison with the Client 

Today we pitched our idea to the client. Before the pitch, we created a production plan to give to the client. During the pitch, we summarised our ident idea. Ugo talked about the visual style and design of the ident. Jordan talked about the Theme and production of the idents. Eunice talked about the Budget of the idents. Me and Kenny talked about the potential problems that could arise during the production. We also talked about the solutions of those problems. The key problems i highlighted were health and safety, overrun of budget,practical skills and resources and scouting of locations.  I think we did well in presenting our final idea to the client. 

Production log 3 

Preproduction Feedback 

Wednesday 26th April 2017 10:00am

Quality management and team working

Today we received feedback for our production plan. Some of our preproduction documentation were in complete or missing. As a result of this we received an NYA grade. 

The main issues we needed to fix were to treatment,designs and production schedule (gant chart).

The treatment that was created was not fit for purpose. For the treatment, we needed to include the tone,theme and brand identity of our suite of idents. We also had to talk about the techniques were going to use (e.g- stop motion, animation) 

The designs needed to include logo,colour schemes and hand drawn images. The designs also needed to be annotated. This was something we did not do. 

The gant chart for our preproduction schedule received a pass grade. To receive higher, we need to add roles and responsibilities to each preproduction task. There were also some incomplete boxes on the gant chart that needed sorting out.

The potential problems and solutions received a pass grade. Some significant potential problems were left out that we needed to address. 

-Issues regarding stop motion 

-Time and organisation
- Communication 

We were also later told that we needed to include a storyboard in our production plan. 

Despite having various incomplete tasks, Our budget breakdown was a solid merit. Which to be honest, was surprising to me, considering the amount of problems the production plan had. 

Overall, i think we did not work well as a team this week. A lot of our tasks were incomplete and as a result, we had to spend some our production time, improving the pre-production documents.  

Meeting Deadlines 

We were not able to meet the deadline because our production plan was incomplete.

After the feedback session, an emergency production meeting was set up. 

I was annoyed at some of the members of my team for the lack of detail regarding, the preproduction tasks. At various times of the week, I had stated that the preproduction plan looked a bit rushed and not detailed enough, but my words went unheard. I was even told that the preproduction plan had been edited to look more professional, but when I checked it, there were various spelling mistakes. Unfortunately, this was on the day of the pitch, so I could fix very little.  

I was also annoyed at the lack of communication between the production team. There were times were no one responded to an important question that I raised in the group chat.  

It was agreed upon, that the members of the team that were responsible for incomplete work would compete and improve the work.

Jordan (treatment)

Ugo (designs and storyboard)

Kenny (potential solutions)

Me (Potential problems)

Eunice (Gant chart and Budget)