The Requirements of Working to a Brief

Brief
A brief is a guideline that lets you make a project for a client , being a person or a company. A brief is handed to you when you are chosen for the job or know as commissioned.
When you are commissioned it means you are called to do a job to someones liking on how they want the job done not how you want to design it. This can be from a television episode to a radio advert.

Tender means that people can invest money to submit there shares or securities to a takeover offer. A different way you can respond to a brief is by entering a competitions, The rules set by the competition brief are a lot less strict meaning that the competitors can be more creative.

Reading a brief

Above this the judging criteria for the E4 competition, when I made my channel four E sting I had to follow these guidelines, It was very easy as you could use anything to make it with, being Lego or paper or even an computer animated. I went for Lego because the bits are easy to move and adding Plasticine to it was easy as it didn't stick to the Lego.

Negotiating a Brief
The amount of room I had to work with was really big, I had more then enough room to plan out my idea because of how much room E4 was giving me. It couldn't be too rude , explicit or violent. You could use anything to make it with, there was no restrictions on that, You could use Paper, Clay, Computer Animation or even Lego. I just had to consider the rules above.

When I was working on the E-Sting I had more then enough room to make my E sting, The only thing I couldn't do to the video was make it too explicit, but its alright because I didn't have any violence or explicit content in my video at all. My video was just a guy going to a vending machine As seen below.





I had some constraints during my E sting , the first problem was copyright , the only reason I had copyright against me was because I tried to use a image of Google images, In the end I bypassed the copyright by using my own photograph instead of one from online.
The other constraint I had was Finance , the only reason finance was a problem is because when I was building the vending machine is that I didn't have all the parts to make it so we had to order some online and had to wait for the parts to arrive,

I did not make any amendments to my final product as I did not realize that the top of the vending machine would show people moving around in the background and how much I actually moved the vending machine during filming the video.

The reason there might be amendments to a budget is because I ordered the parts online and had to wait on them before I could finish making the complete machine.

Opportunities

Someone might respond to a brief because it would help them out with producing something they want to make or even just to win a contest ,hoping to be contacted because they won a contest.

The opportunities I had when I was making my video was that I needed to mix Lego with Plasticine without them sticking together. I would had also made sure next time that I film it against a wall so that you cannot see people moving in the background as the animation is going on. The last thing I would develop on is how jumpy it is.

The amount of new skills I learnt during the animation process was a lot, I had learnt a vary of things from making models with tubes to putting in a picture as the background on Premiere pro. I also learnt how to Chroma key the background so it looked like it was zoomed into the keypad when it was just a few red bricks with a red background. Lastly the best skill I learnt was making it run smoothly even though it was all still photographs, I like the fact that I can turn pictures into a ten second animation.

I did have to multitask during the project because I had to move the animation while taking photo's other then that I didn't have to multitask at any other point.

The contribution I made to the project brief is that I bought in my own Lego as I didn't have enough to fully create the vending machine, Other then that any other contributions were made by the college as I used some Lego they had as-well as one of the camera's to take the photograph for the background.