WKC BTEC Task 1 Report

This report is about my Task 1 in WKC – Mirim BTEC certificate process which is held from 10.02.14 to 21.02.14. The Task 1 is about our project’s Pre-production. Pre-production is literally a procedures that we do before real project.
Pre-production may look not important, but actually it is. If you didn’t make your documentations well, the real project might go not so well, too.
Here are some elements that you have to focus on in your pre-production steps:

MONEY is necessary for every project. There are two kinds of money – Income and Expenditure. Income is money that comes into me, and expenditure is money that goes out from me. You have to plans for both of them. You must keep one thing in mind: Income always has to be bigger than expenditure, or you’re going to broke.
And next, it’s all about TIME. It’s better to do your project like just good and in time than do it really good but not in time. Although your project is perfect, that’s useless if you didn’t keep deadlines carefully. You should make Gantt chart for whole project – like for 3~4 weeks or more, and many little schedules like production schedule for interim deadlines. Remember, deadlines are kind of agreements, so it might be the best important elements.
You can’t be good at everything. So you have to hire some PEOPLE. You can divide people into two – Personnel and Contributor. Personnel are person who is in your team. You will carry whole project with your personnel. On the other hand, the person who required for specific work is called Contributor. You can measure yours and your teammates’ ability with SWOT analysis and Skill audits. After analyzing yourselves, you should hire some personnel and contributors.
If you have to film or edit or code something, you need some PLACE for that. There are also two kinds of places – Facility and Location. They seem very similar but there’s huge difference. If you want to make it simple, you can say Facilities are indoors and Locations are outdoors, but that’s not a correct definition. Facilities are places you book or hire, and Locations are places you get permission. In both of them, you need Recce. Recce is a little slang for Reconnaissance. It means visiting a place and get familiar with it. You must do Recce for successful filming or whatever you do.
When you make a website or video or something, you need assets like photo, video, music… We say that as MATERIALS. All kinds of stuffs that you use in your project are materials, especially the software ones. If you want to use materials that aren’t yours, you have to get permission from copyrighters – we can say this lower.
It may be very important part – LEGAL CONSTRAINTS include COPYRIGHT. Every step during project requires legal process. Each element from Money to Materials needs specific process. For example, when you hire a contributor, you have to write a release form for protect their and your rights.

During carry out this BTEC project, I had lots of problems and obstacles, but also I learned lots of lessons.
First, because English is not my native language, this whole project using English was so hard. But my teachers, seniors, and google helped me, so it made my works easier.
And second, I always thought preparing is not so important. But due to this pre-production, it wakes me for importance of pre-production. Even we can say pre-production decide quality of project.
Third, in 2 weeks, I felt like I’m a little closer with English. Of course I’ve been studied English but I never want something related to English so badly. I really want to get BTEC and do this project well. I’ll study English harder and harder to achieve my hopes and wishes.