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.
There’s a rule in UK; ‘You must keep a written record of your risk assessment if your business has 5 or more people’. And they encourage to write a Health and Safety policy for business people. You can write anything related to working safety.
When you carry out some project, there’s some laws that you have to keep while doing it. That is called Legal Constraints (also known as Legal Implications).
There’s some terms required:
ETHICAL GUIDELINE
It’s literally the guidelines that you have to follow when you’re filming or carrying out project ethically. It’s not codified rules, but you should keep it.
INDUSTRY CODE OF PRACTICE
There’s some rules between your company and customers. That is Industry code. It may be mandatory, or maybe not. But just like Ethical guidelines, you should keep it because that is practice.
RELEASE FORM
I think I can replace this category with my older post: Release form Report If I have to say it by one sentence; document written for some lawsuit problem.
PUBLIC LIABILITY INSURANCE
You need insurance for contrasting some accidents and problems during your project. And you need not only Employment Insurance, also Public Liability Insurance. Public Liability Insurance is insurance for damaging third party’s property.
COPYRIGHT
When you take a picture or filming a video or do whatever creative, you get a Copyrights. And also when you want use someone else’s assets, you have to pay or make it up for them in anyway.
If you didn’t get permission by copyrighter, you’ll get punished.
Logo of Korea Copyright Commission
Every nation have associations that protect their citizen’s copyright. In Korea, we have Korea Copyright Commission. In England, they have British Copyright Council.
Here’s some example of Legal constraint of filming in locations:
I want to film in Museum / Art gallery:
– Some museums and art galleries forbid filming inside because they have to care damaging artworks. So first, you have to contact manager or administrator.
– If you got permission and filmed, you have to get another permission by: copyrighters.
– If the way you’re gonna use the film is non-profit like news report, you don’t need to get a permission. But when you get some profit with it, you have to get a permission from copyrighter.
I want to film in Public locations:
– Also, first, you have to contact manager or administrator. But in this condition, the manager or administrator should from government.
– Let’s assume you’ve taken some video from N-Seoul tower. There’s some murals around the tower, and they’re in your video too. Do I have to get a permission for them? The answer is: NO.
Contact list is literally lists of people who you’re gonna contact / have contacted. It includes information we can contact when they’re not on the circumstances to keep in touch, like their parts, phone numbers, address, and mails.
Contingency plan is Plan B. The plan you can use when the original one have some problems or isn’t working. You always need contingency plan because there’s always chance for problems in your project.
NURI, HA 