The meeting we had with the client was on 24^th April this gave us the opportunity to discuss information regarding the brief that was set for us. When negotiating with a client it is very important because by doing so, you are able to know what the client wants meeting their standards. The client's name was David Pearson, the purpose of the meeting was so that we could discuss with him and our production team about how creative we could be, and talking about the ideas we had already roughly decided.

Meeting deadlines:( weekly diary of progress to schedule)

Our team had been working on the production plan a week before enabling us to meet deadlines, we believe our ideas were well developed so we got feedback from sir in which he felt the same giving us guidance on how to create our ideas using animation and stop motion.

Quality management:( meeting to discuss the production quality and fitness for purpose of each idents- what will be discussed/renegotiated with client before production starts)

We negotiated about the idents not being seasonal because there was no snow for winter, not enough sun for summer and no red leaves for autumn, this would be very difficult to meet. The client had agreed that these idents don’t have to be seasonal anymore given the limitation.  Our second concern with the brief was the duration this is because we believed that it would be better if the duration could be shorter because our idents didn’t last as long as 30 seconds.

Team working:( weekly team log of contributions and management of the production)

I strongly agree that our team worked well together and was well communicated with each other during the production. Meaning that we are well organized meeting the given deadline.

 our production team gave a pitch to our client discussing our ideas. In the pitch we gave a basic summary for each of our ideas, explaining what will be happening in each ident.

25th April 

2-Meeting deadlines: (weekly diary of progress to schedule)

Before we gave our pitch to our client we made sure that all our work was put into a portfolio in terms of the key information that was required for our client to see. From this he can get an understanding of our ideas and se whether he was happy with it or not before we then continued.

Quality management: (meeting to discuss the production quality and fitness for purpose of each of the idents- what will be discussed/renegotiated with client before production starts)

During the pitch we discussed to our client David Pearson the budget for our production this includes things such as the travel, food, software and equipment needed. Our client seemed very happy with out ideas and our theme being community meeting his requirements. Before our pitch we produced a production plan this included our designs for our ideas, the budget, storyboards and other key information. This helped give the client an understanding of our production knowing what our final product will look like. We also discussed about the duration for the idents which we negotiated from 30 seconds to 20 seconds this was because we believe that the given time of 30 seconds was too log for an ident. The client was happy to change the duration making it easier for us to complete all four idents on time.

Team working: (weekly team log of contributions and management of the production)

I believe our team worked very well together as everyone contributed in the pitch discussing one idea per person, making it well laid out fitting to the 6-minute minimum we had to pitch our ideas to our client.

2^nd May 2017- Pre production

This day we received feedback from sir based on our portfolio that we had given our client before our pitch.

Meeting deadlines: (weekly diary of progress to schedule)

We had to make sure our pre production was completed before we were allowed to go and shoot for our suite of deadlines, which our team successfully met, however some elements of work needed improving such as the treatment. 

Quality management:( meeting to discuss the production quality and fitness for purpose of each of the idents – what will be discussed/renegotiated with client before production starts)

Some of the work which we showed sir was not of a high quality meaning that we had to spend extra time on improving our work to get it up to high standards. We was first given an NYA grade, as some of the work wasn’t good enough or completed correctly.

Team working:( weekly team log of contributions and management of the production)

All members in the group completed their individual tasks however some were not of a high quality meaning that they needed improving.

12^th May

Our first ident, which we filmed, was our hands idents, which we filmed in the green room where we used stop motion.

Meeting deadlines:( weekly diary of progress to schedule)

Are deadline for all idents is for the 26^th May where all idents needed to be fully completed and animated.

Quality management:( meeting to discuss the production quality and fitness for purpose of each of the idents (what will be discussed/ renegotiated with client before production starts)

Our producer in our team forgot to book our locations needed to film the idents resulting in us having to waste more time on shooting the idents as the rooms were not booked. The equipment was booked out per day in which we was filming.

Team working:( weekly team log of contributions and management of the production)

We all took part when it came to filming whether it was being a cameraman or suggesting ideas on how it should be shoot. For our first ident we completed it within one day giving us time to film the rest.  After filming our first ident our team member Daniel was responsible for our SD card which he some how lost resulting in us having to re film our ident which push us back also loosing out on time we needed to complete the rest and edit.

Task 2b

Question 1 (Lawrence)

We had a meeting with the client on Tuesday 30th march 2017 in order to discuss information regarding the brief that was set for us. The client's name was David Pearson and we had to sit in our production teams to negotiate with the client in terms of what he wanted specifically and how creative we could be with these idents. We negotiated the fact that the idents could not be seasonal because there was no snow for winter, not enough sun for summer and no red leaves for autumn. So the client agreed that these idents don’t have to be seasonal anymore given the limitation.  Our second concern with the brief was the duration because we thought that it would be better if the duration could be shorter because our idents didn’t last as long as 30 seconds but our ideas were imaginative so therefore, we thought it would be a good idea to shorten the duration.

Question 2 (Lawrence)

During the negotiation process, there is always a degree of discretion with the client which means how creative we can be as long as we take the client’s ideas and suggestions into account in other words, David Pearson stated that we didn’t have to use only white and purple in our idents we could use a variety of colours but he wants to keep the colour scheme of the logo. He also stated that he wanted stakeholders, students, and the parents to perceive the college as formal so that limited the extent of our creativity since most of our ideas were formal but they weren’t engaging enough to entertain the target audience and fulfill the brief.

Question 3Daniel Storey:

Before the time comes to making the suite of idents for the client so it does represent the college and handing it on the set deadline, we need to make sure that the legal, ethical and regulatory constraints are considered like for example: The client wants us and the other groups when making the idents (the ideas and themes that we have come with to promote the college in a respectful way) that it does not offended the audience in an religious way (any religion) when the times comes to showing the idents to them for the first time. This is because if this had happened in the real world then, it is possible that the people may call up OFCOM (Office of Communications) by complaining any particular ident that have seen which the company could end up considering suing the company by a lot of money since the designers are responsible for making it and could end up being fired from their job if the company ends up going bankrupt through the fine. 

These types of rules within the constraints have been set by the government to make sure that the different television companies follows it to the last detail so they will not break like for example: the ethical constraints can be easily avoided by having different ethnicity's and having both genders within of making the four idents so it does stop from people from complaining that there has been discrimination at all when the final product is finished before the deadline so the client is able to see for the first time by giving his thoughts about it and seeing if there needs to be changes before actually releasing for the audience to watch.       

Question 4 Daniel Storey:

While working on the different stages of production of making a product for the client who will want it finished by the deadline, it is very important to discuss with the client about what is best for this product as it is very likely that the ideas that we come up with in a space of time could get changed which we need to come into agreement about of what should the product look like in the end. So, when the other groups including us were meeting the client for the first time, we did discuss about the amendments of the final product which David Pearson wanted the 4 suites of idents to be put on a digital platform (YouTube) as we are promoting the college of Christ The King: St Mary's so it needs to convince the 15-19 year old students to come and study at the site since they are the target audience. 

Although these suites of idents that need to be made for the client (David Pearson) for the 15-19-year-old students, he wants to make that it does target the parents as well since they will have key influence of making sure that their child make the right choice by joining and study the college but these questions were asked by Roopa's group. By speaking to the client, it is very important that we make sure to negotiate with him because he may suggest any amendments to the final version of the product which the idea could be used in an different way so it does match the type of season that you are planning to do for the four idents.

Question Five: Amendments to budget
James:
When we spoke to our client, there were questions that our production team wanted to raise during the initial meeting about any types of amendments that we wanted to make to the original budgets. The original budget that was given out to us was for a maximum of £50, we wanted to make a few smaller adjustments, we wanted to increase the budget slightly, this was in case we did not manage to hand the work in time for the deadline, however, a demand or suggestion such as this was not verified, this is because we must complete the work on time and must work to the deadline that was originally set for us. We wanted to also change the budget slightly because we thought that travel costs would put a major dent in to the budget, if we were to get the trains, however, as we discovered now we will not be using this type of transport regularly, we wouldn't need to increase the budget, however, we will be spending the budget mainly on props to fit in to the idea for the suite of idents that we have, also lunch on the days that we are out, will be used as money taken from the original budget we have provided for us