logistics Time: Timescales

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Timescales

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The overall project deadline- and the individual deadlines for discrete phases of production- is one of the most important things to keep in mind.
A main issue that can affect a media production project is availability. Such as the client, group members, equipment and facilities.
When planning a response to a media production brief, the key players and media producers will have to secure the availability of resources and personnel.

All personnel need to be selected based on availability, understanding of commitment and fulfil responsibilities and meet deadlines. Film teams make up a chain.
All departments are chained together that means if one department doesn’t meet a deadline it could have a knock on effect on the other departments leading to more deadlines being missed.

. Video games: during construction-> pre-production. Sound element, sound libraries, foley work. Knock on effect on the quality of product or it has an effect on budget more time spent on this specific area.
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. Film: Mise-en-Scene: Costume design for Alien (film), heavy reliant costume based film. Producer could have not factored in sufficient time for design and construction time, timescale. Filming will be delayed for certain scenes, then scheduled filming has to be changed when not all actors might not be available. Certain departments might only be booked for certain dates like light but filming can’t happen without the costume.

. Tv Drama: Hair & Beauty: Stranger things. Big prophetic work needed. Based in early 1980s so it realises heavily on Hair & Beauty and Costume. Actors kept waiting and filming is delayed. Very similar to costume design deadlines not met.
Related imageTimescales are very important in a media production no matter what time of media it is. All departments are linked together so if one department misses a deadline it will have knock-on effects on other departments. In film some departments have bigger effects depending on the type of film that is being produced. For example, Alien (1979) relied heavily on the costume department due to the alien being a costume due to CGI not being available at the time. So if the costume department didn’t meet the deadline of finishing the costume it will have a knock-on effect on other departments. If the costume is not ready then filming will have to be postponed for the majority of the scenes because the costume was needed, the lighting department might have only been available on a certain day but without the costume they would not be able to film so the lighting team would be pointless at the time.

Receiving feedback is crucial for a film production from a target audience and client, so the production team has to make sure they leave time in the production schedule for feedback to be given and acted on.

The production schedule is a project plan of how the production budget will be spent over a given timescale, for every phase of a business project. The production schedule is important because it reduces the chances of not meeting deadlines in all the departments.

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