Project management

What is project management?

Objectives
Maintenance
Organising

Managing your project into sections to achieve the objectives set out to finish your end project.

Project management is the effective planning and running of a project, from the ideas point to the end product and evaluation.

Planning requires an outline of the tasks, deadlines and milestones that will be required to manage the project efficiently.

A project timeline schedule would need to be created for the creation of the media product, to include:

1. Tasks that need to be done
2. Deadlines for each task
3. Milestones within the tasks and the overall project.

Gantt chart: Designed by mechanical engineer Henry Gantt in 1910, the Gantt chant has has a relatively long run as a project management tool. A gantt chart uses horizontal bars to illustrate project completion dates, progress, milestones and dependencies.

Production schedule - excel
To do lists
Workflow tool: Split by team member so that it is clear who is doing what, when.

Documentation needed to aid project management:

- Initial pitch or treatment
- Call sheet
- Budget proposal form
- Budgets
- Contract
- Storyboard
- Set diagram
- Editing log
- Camera shot list
- Talent release form
- Location release form
- Recce/scouting sheet
- Daily progress report
- Continuity progress report
- Equipment log
- Shooting script
- Visual effects (FX) breakdown
- Audience questionnaire for product testing
- Asset log
- Risk assessment.

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