TASK 1- LEWIS BRADY

Contractual brief is a legal document which is created between an employee and client, breach of which can give rise to litigation. It is a document which shows the expectations of the client, the prices and finally the payment terms.

CONTRACTUAL

CommunicationIf I were to use this type of brief I would make sure that the legal document between me and the client was clear and precise allowing for production to continue as soon as possible.It allows the employer and client to agree on the price range and a set income with the employer with the contractual brief, which allows precise communication between the client and employer.Time ManagementThe time management is quite key to this brief so I would state in the legal document with the client how long would been spent on planning and finally production of the chosen project.Because of the employer and client agree to certain terms it allows for there to be consistent time management because they have agreed to follow a legal document and if they break the expectations of what is required of them it will cause a failed product.Technical SkillsThe technical skills that would be gain from this would be mostly through creating several documents stating terms of the chosen project.Using this type of brief it allows the client and employer to keep on track with what is being produced so and having a consistent organisation of work in result to this it improve there technical skills in producing consistent work.Career Progression This production brief causes a large amount of work to be produced which may result in stress, but is also causes a strong consistent amount of work which will benefit the client and employer exponentially. Allow them to progress company resulting in a career progression.

This is when the client and employer will come to an agreement on the brief of the project, which will include final ideas of both the employer, as well as the client. It is important that the client and company agree on the brief.

NEGOTIATED

CommunicationIt allows for the employer and the client to quickly negotiate on an agreement upon the brief of the project, this also allows for alot of communication between he employer and client. This would help a great deal if I were to use this brief because a lot of verbal communication between the client would be needed.

Time ManagementManaging time would be quite crucial in this brief because there would have to be set times on when the terms of the project are given to the client.The client and employer if needed to can negotiate between one another to allow more time with completing a certain project they agreed to produce.

Technical SkillsTechnical skills wouldn’t be too necessary in this brief because of there being many meeting between the client in terms of final ideas of the project.When the client negotiate on weather to change certain part of the agreed upon project it will allow an increase of there negotiation skills between one another if they were to work on another new project.Career Progression I believe that if I were to use this type of brief it would me progress as it has helped me understand on how to state terms between and the client on what the project would consist of, so overall it would allow me to be efficient at using this brief again.If the employer has finished negotiating the terms of which the project will be planned and completed by with the client, this results in the employer being able to take that experience and use it for another client which will work towards his career being progressed.

This this where a media company is given a brief by the client which outlines the product which they are wanting to be made. This brief is very open and only gives enough information to be able to produce the product.

FORMAL

CommunicationThis allows straightforward communication between the employer and client through detailed document explaining how the project will run and how it will be achieved which would help me a great deal if I were to use this type of brief.

Time ManagementThe document would be clear and consistent so the time management will be clearly shown inside the formal production brief which will be presented between the employer and client, so I think would help me produce the agreed on project if I were to use this type of production brief.Technical SkillsUsing a thorough detailed document it allows for the client to understand the explained project with a clear insight of what will be achieved through brief so the technical skills would help exponentially when I would come to address the terms with the client.

Career Progression Using this type of brief it allows opinions to be expressed between the employer and client through a detailed document, in a result to this it allows the ability to work around the contract slightly which can be used in the future to progress my career if I were to use this brief again.

Informal briefs are different from a formal brief because they are more of an agreement between two or several parties but it is not done in writing or signed with nothing to offi cial. Using an informal production brief I could be selling a new product with only guidelines of what the company wanted and what the company is selling.

INFORMAL

CommunicationThis brief would be hard to get my head around with it being so informal so I believe communication between me and the client would be difficult at times to address the project in any great detail, but this brief allows for more communication between the client and the employer and less use of detailed written documents, this allows for a general agreement to be made with looking through countless documents.Time ManagementThe document will be short so the time management will be clearly discussed between the client and me in personally instead of looking at long documents through emails.

Technical SkillsWith less use of the written document it allows for decisions to be made quickly, in a result to this it allows for production to be started with a slightly longer delay.

Career Progression Using this type of brief it allows opinions to be expressed between me and the client through a short document, in a result to this it allows the ability to work around the contract slightly which I believe can be used in the future to progress my career.

A commission brief is where a large corporation, such as The Daily Mail, employ an independent company to create their product for them. It is notable that this type of brief is negotiated between two media companies.

COMMISSION

CommunicationThe communication between the employer and client is quick and precise updating the progression the product has made as it is only being produced by one independent company so the report wont be quite as long .

Time ManagementThe time management can be clearly seen as there is only one company working on the project so they can update quickly if some parts of the project need more time to complete than others.

Technical SkillsBecause the terms between the client is quick and precise there is no need to go into to much detail into the project because of there mainly being one smaller company working on the project , as a result to this the smaller company will a portion of the finished product’s profit.

Career Progression Using this type of brief it allows opinions to be expressed between the employer and client through a short document, in a result to this it allows the one company to proceed with the production of the project.

The client will produce an advertisement stating that they require a media product to be create. A potential employer, such as a production company, initiates a brief, a budget, aswell as a proposal.

TENDER

CommunicationThis brief allows to be set terms agreeing on what the budget will for the project and potential employers work on the product, so in doing this it allows for the production to be started at a high standard and is great way of communicating the product to the client.

Time ManagementBecause this brief is so precise it allows for the time to be managed excellently, the employer is expecting the project to be achieved to high standard because of the terms set with client.

Technical SkillsUsing this type of brief it allows the client and employer to keep on track with what is being produced so and having a consistent organisation of work in result to this it improves there technical skills in producing consistent work because of the proposal being so informative.

Career Progression Using this type of brief it allows opinions to be expressed between the employer and client through a proposal in a result to this it allows the ability to state what the costs will be and what production company will be working on it.

A co-operative brief is when companies work alongside other companies who have a similar brief, and there companies must work alongside each other completing different tasks to get the finished product.

CO-OPERATIVE

CommunicationThis is where two or several production companies are employed to operate upon a set brief, In doing this it allows for several companies to communicate between one another and allowing for the project to be a lot more creative.

Time ManagementThe project has to be completed before a certain deadline, otherwise the client will be extremely dissatisfied and will not employ the selected companies in the future, this is why it so important to keep on track with time management especially when producing a project with several companies.

Technical SkillsUsing this type of brief it allows the client and employer to keep on track with what is being produced so and having a consistent organisation of work in result to this it improves there technical skills in producing consistent work because of the proposal being so informative.

Career Progression Using this type of brief it allows opinions to be expressed between the employer and client through a short document, in a result to this it allows the ability for other companies to work alongside one another on a similar brief.

A brief Which is created in order to be accessible to all of the production companies which are participating in creating a product. Each corporation completes their own brief, then all of the finished projects created by the companies are judged.

COMPETITION

CommunicationI think this brief would be more suited to me because I would be able to present my chosen project to many production companies and when production starts we all complete are own set brief.This type of production brief it allows communication between all the production companies which are participating in creating the product for the client.Time ManagementBecause of the heavy competition, I would have to strive to pitch myself to the client in the most sufficient way, behaving in a professional manner, which is likely to impress the client, and may, in turn, provide me with work., this will also result into the time needing to be managed perfectly .

Technical SkillsUsing a thorough detailed document it allows for the client to understand the explained project with a clear insight of what will be achieved through the brief.

Career Progression Using this type of brief it allows for my opinions to be expressed between the client through a short document, in a result to this it allows the ability compete between all of the production companies which are participating in creating a similar product

EXAMPLES OF COMPETITION (1)

1. Who is the cl ient?The c l ient i s the Armor Games webs i te owners

2. What media product(s) does the c l ient require?Completed fl ash games are requ i red to be re leased onto the Armor Games webs i te

3. What is the t imescale to del iver the product(s) to the cl ient?The t imesca le i s var ied depending on what type of fl ash game that i s be ing produced at the t ime.

4. Who is the intended target audience the cl ient wishes the product(s) to appeal to?The c l ient in wh ich case i s the Armor Games Webs i te owners break up there target aud ience in to d iff erent categor ies , which are st rategy, shoot ing , act ion , adventure and tower defence, they do th is so the products they de l iver to the consumers w i l l g rab the at tent ion o f a w ider range o f people because of sat ing most o f there des i res when they focus on a la rger aud ience.

5. What are the legal and ethical issues relat ing to the production?the lega l and eth ica l i ssues re lat ing to the product ion are carr ied out by the owners o f the webs i te where they wi l l determine what su i tab le or in o ther words acceptab le so they can be added to the i r webs i te .

6. What constraints do you have to work within (budget, length of product, format)?The budget doesn’ t rea l ly app ly because o f the games be ing that are c reated and added to Armor games are f ree.

(2)

1. Who is the cl ient?The c l ient is the Steam Greenl ight Team.

2. What media product(s) does the cl ient require?Perhaps the b iggest misconcept ion developers new to the Greenl ight process have is that thei r game must be in a completed, or near ly completed, s tate before submit t ing. 3. What is the t imescale to del iver the product(s) to the cl ient?Whi le you' l l want your game v ideo to be representat ive of the fi nal product (more on that later ) , most games that go up on Greenl ight are months or even a year away f rom re lease.

4. Who is the intended target audience the cl ient wishes the product(s) to appeal to?the intended target audience the c l ient w ishes i t to appeal to are the people who own a Steam account .

5. What are the legal and ethical issues relating to the production?Sadly , the major i ty o f games on Greenl ight are e i ther not po l ished or not profess ional enough to warrant cons iderat ion f rom voters . Gener ic RPG Maker games, games better su i ted for mobi le dev ices , and games with in fer ior graphics l i t ter Greenl ight , and are a lmost immediate ly d ismissed by Va lve's community.

6. What constraints do you have to work within (budget, length of product, format)?This is the part that Steam doesn' t fu l ly expla in . What we do know is that , in order to be Greenl i t , your game wi l l have to rank in the top X of those current ly be ing voted upon. Thus, in order to safe ly ensure comfortable passage onto Steam, you need a im for a rank ing in the top 100, i f not the top 50. Thus, X equals somewhere between 50 and 100. Th is approx imat ion is subject to change as the serv ice evolves.

(3)

1. Who is the cl ient?The c l ient i s the IGN Reviewers

2. What media product(s) does the cl ient require?The C l ient requi res fu l l p roduced games so they can be rev iewed and presented to the IGN v iewers .

3. What is the t imescale to del iver the product(s) to the cl ient?The t imescale can vary to however long they want to spend on each rev iew.

4. Who is the intended target audience the cl ient wishes the product(s) to appeal to?the intended target aud ience the c l ient wishes the product to appeal to i s IGN v iewers who want to see complete rev iews so they themselves can make an op in ion on the games they v iew.

5. What are the legal and ethical issues relating to the production?the legal and eth ica l i ssues re lat ing to the product ion are carr ied out by the rev iewer of the certa in game he i s rev iewing where they wi l l determine what su i tab le or in other words acceptab le so they can be added to the i r webs i te .

6. What constraints do you have to work within (budget, length of product, format)?The budget doesn’ t real ly app ly , because the games are rev iewed and payments are carr ied out and the rev iewer can take as much as he need to rev iew each game he is g iven.