Project Management

What is project management?

Project management is a job role to ensure a process is in place and adhered to in order to achieve the project. A project manager may use a number of different tools to do this.

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

Project management tools


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





  • Production schedule on excel
  • To do lists
  • Workflow tool: split by team member so that it is clear who is doing what and 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 Log
  • Talent release form
  • Location release form
  • Recce/Scouting sheet
  • Daily progress report
  • Continuity sheet
  • Equipment log
  • Shooting script
  • Visual effects (FX)
  • Audience questionnaire for product testing
  • Asset log
  • Risk assessment 




Comments

  1. JCoSS Media Dept14 December 2017 at 02:00

    Some good notes here.
    You've written a good project management definition.

    Make sure you know what the different project management tools are and how/why they can be useful.

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