Project management

 Project management in media is the role of ensuring all aspects of a given product run smoothly by overseeing a number of people and departments. the project manager must ensure that deadlines are met and the brief is followed by liaising with others and holding them to account 


Skills and traits needed 

- Good communicator 

- Calm 

- Organisational skills 

- teamwork 

- analytical 

- Budgeting 

- Discipline 

- timekeeping 

- negotiating 

- Leadership 

- Creative 


Production schedules 

Gant chart

- The best way to manage media projects is to create a production schedule. This brings together logistics and resource details and includes all tasks, milestones and the time - scales and deadlines and allows the tracking of progress 

- This is shared with all members of the production team and contains details of the initial proposal, key milestones agreed with the clients as well as final deadlines 


1) Tasks - actual jobs that need doing 

2)Deadlines - the date when these tasks must be completed 

3)Milestones - identified point to be reached within the projects  

4)Contingencies - back up plan/ ideas; alternative option 


Logistics 

Complex process of organising resources for production - ensuring all personnel, props, equipment and location are in right place at right time especially on big productions such as films, which will also involve doing a recce 

- Personelle and hiring 

- Props 

- Production equipment 

- Location 

- transportation 

- care on location     

The production company must not only get resources, but they need them for the right time and for the best value possible 


daily planer/ call sheet 

- These are used each day in production 

- ensures everyone on set knows what the goal is for the day , where they are based, when they are require to be somewhere and what their roles are 

- Helps to clarify goals for one day - on a simple sheet for everyone 

- Lists all resources and logistics as well as creative aims 



Permission forms 



 Asset logs, recces, set design 


Risk Assessment 

- A risk assessment is carried out by a company as a means of identifying and tryng to minimise potential risks 

- will include - Hazard name - what is the risk - who is at risk - level of risk and how ti can be controlled 

- it is conducted by visiting location before production starts to protect everyone and everything                                                                                                                                   

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