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FinanceGive a definition for each of the terms listed Self Financed Self financed means that the company or firm responsible for generating the project uses

its own income to support the proposed idea.Employer/Client FinancedThis means the money for the project is supplied by the client, this could be before the

project begins or at/towards the end. KickstarterKickstarter is a website based solemnly on public funds for ideas. One example of a project

which has been successfully funded by Kickstarter is the Pebble watch, a watch synced to your phone so you can keep track of your runs, get up-to-date notifications on your team or other day to day happenings. An American idea by Eric Migicovsky which was backed by 68,929 people who all together, funded a total of $10,266,845 which helped Eric produce his idea. This is a useful idea if neither the client or the company has the sufficient funds to generate the project and they feel as if the project or idea they have will be useful to the public in everyday life.

FinanceWhich source of funding will be most likely for your production and why? The source of funding we will be most likely to use is the client financed one. We will be more

likely to use this as this is the more reliable way to do it. We will ask for a sum of money from the client to help put us on the way to create their idea and then, if the customer is satisfied with what we have produced, we will ask for the rest of the money after the project has finished.

Advantages An advantage of this is that we will get funds at the beginning and the end of the project so if

we do the job correctly and the client is satisfied, we should earn enough money to make a comfortable profit.

DisadvantagesA disadvantage of this could be that we will not get all the money at the end of the project if

the clients are not satisfied meaning that we will be out of profit.

FinanceExplain the aspects of your production that could require finance.During our project, lots of things will need financing, such as the personnel involved,

for example the crew and the experts needed. As we are doing recipe cards, it could be a possibility that we need to photograph the food we are focusing on so we may need to hire someone with experience of photographing food and to position it an attractive manner. Another thing that may need funding financially could be hiring a location or studio as if we planned to focus the cards to a high class audience we would want to shoot the photographs in a classy kitchen and this could cost money. If we choose not to take photographs but find the images we need of the internet, it is a high possibility that these would be stock images – meaning we would also have to pay a contribution towards the owner of the pictures planning to use. The client also wants 3000 of each recipe card printed off so this would also need to be funded and due to the mass of things wanting to be printed, it would be quite expensive.

TimeWhat methods could you employ to ensure you stick to your deadlines and why would this be beneficial to your project? Using examples from your own experiences can help you add detail here. I could set myself really pushed deadlines that I must complete, I will give myself

enough time plus a little bit more in case something goes wrong for each piece of work otherwise I will be massively held back. I have learnt from other projects that keeping track of time and deadlines is key to my project. If time is took for granted, the product could lack the standard it could have if the correct timings were took.

TimeWhat is contingency time and how might this be beneficial to your project?Considering some general risks to your project could help you give a more detailedresponse. A contingency plan is a plan devised on the off chance that an unexpected plan is the

outcome of the project. An example of this is if all the work on a memory stick is lost, how would you help reduce the impact. This could be by, backing the work up onto another memory stick or another memory stick. Another example of this is if we choose to cook the recipe we are focusing on and plan to photograph but the food goes wrong and we didn’t plan for that to happen, this could be solved by making sure we planned enough time to re-do the dish in case of a disaster.

PersonnelWhat size team will you use for your production (large or small)? How many people will you have in your team? Consider the reasons for this. Think about theadvantages and disadvantages of your team size.Overall, I think our production team will be a mediocre size as we will need a few

people for the several job roles we have, such as the photographer, the copy writer and the graphic designer. I think having a medium size team will be better than having a bigger team as it will cost less money and it will a lot easier to organise and to communicate with a littler group of personnel. A disadvantage of this is that we may be more rushed for time, as fewer people will have to do more job roles in less time which may not work as well as it would with a bigger group.

PersonnelWhat job roles would you have in your production and what skills and experience would be required? Think back to your early work on jobs roles and departmentsand also the skills you know you need to use to produce work. Drawing on your ownexperience as well as your industry knowledge will help you here. We will have three main job roles in our production, these will be the photographer,

copy writer and the graphic designer. To get these job roles, the persons wanting them will have to have experience dealing with a similar situation and should be able to time-keep well and should be able to work to a high standard under pressure.

PersonnelHow could you find people to be in your production team? Think back to your owncareer development plans to help you with this.

FacilitiesList the equipment, resources and facilities you need for your production and its source

Equipment/Facility/Resources needed for production

College Self Client

ContributorsContributor Type of Contributor

Team member

Client

Tutor

Photographer of Sourced Images

LocationsWhat method could you employ to identify locations needed for your production (production/ post production facilities) and how could this be useful?

LocationsAre there any limitations or risks you would need to consider for your locations?

Location Limitation/Risk

Codes of Practice - ClearancesWhat is a model/location release form and why is it important to your production?

Codes of Practice - LegalWhat legal requirements will you have to consider in your project and what aspects do they relate to?

Aspect of Production Legal Consideration

Codes of Practice – Regulatory Bodies

Which regulatory body’s guidelines would you need to follow when creating your production? Where could you source that information from. Be specific.