Budget - Production Manager.

In my group i was chosen to be production manager.
As production manager the role primarily involves having to negotiate things such as cast, budget and location and being the link between the producer, director and also the clientel. I primarily responsible for everything that takes place on the shoot, which includes, locations then booking of the chosen locations, cast, crew and organising the transport, equipment and catering.
The suggested locations for our video have been a pub (coach makers arms), a studio for a performance element and romantic scenes by a river. Our video is all about a broken relationship and we are showing this by having the lead role as a guy who has spilt from his girlfriend. We cant give names for our cast as we havnt yet finalised who we are having for each role.
I now need to discuss the budget with the director and producer after the meeting we had and discuss the first shoot day. We are currently under budget therefore nothing should be too much of a problem.

Stationary and moodboard

moodboard for target audience. Used in client meeting.
Our proposed video will appeal to our target audience because we have researched their interests and taken them into account. As the moodboard shows we researched the style, events our T.A attend, their beliefs and other bands they're interested in. I have chosen to express the T.A in this way to show our client my ideas in a visual way so they can imagine and get ideas themselves.

Stationary

As a group we all designed different logos and discussed what we liked however, i drew the final design and we decided as a group this should be our logo. The logo represents us because we wanted something different, i.e, we wanted to spell the company name in an unusual way and this is how we came up with 'Moozik'. After deciding on 'Moozik Productions' we thought our logo should have something to do with it therfore we all decided on the cow. The cow brings humour to our company and thats what we wanted; we wanted to attract young and fresh talent therefore we thought this would be a sense of fun to the music industry.

Image of Letter and Minutes

This is our groups minutes.

This is a letter of response to our clients about our previous meeting.

My Personal Response To The Meeting.

What did you do to prepare for the meeting?
For the meeting we gathered together all our information including, sheets about our budget, moodboards to show our ideas and other images for loacations. We also prepared when we would speak so we had a structured meeting with no awkward silent moments.

What roles did you have during the meeting?
In the meeting my job was to discuss the target audience with the client and i did this by showing a moodboard to help visualise the audience and what we had researched. I also rounded up the meeting asking the client if they had any final questions.

How effectively did you communitcate during the meeting?
I think our group communicated with out client well and they understood everything we were saying. Our client didnt have many final questions and i think this shows they were happy with what we had to say.

What problems/action points arose and how will you work to solve this?
We had no problems with our budget and overall our meeting went well.

What will your group do next on the production or on the client communitcation? Our next move is to respond to the client via letter.

A logo is marketing material which is a memorable and meaningful representation of a company. It helps to attract and promote the business.

We chose to play on the work 'music' and change it to 'moozik', which sounds like the sound of a cow which was then interpreted into the double 'o' and shown as a cows mouth. I think our logo is funky and eye catching but isn't too complicated so it is easily repeated. It also attracts a wide audience with a range of styles and genres.


Logo = marketing material which represents a company and is used to attract customers and promote the business.
We our group discussed our logo we wanted something different which would play on words therefore we finally chose to call our company 'moozik' which plays on the word 'music'. As the word sounds like 'moo' we decided to add a cartoon picture of a cow which was drawn by myself, i created the picture into the word so the 'oo' was the cows nose. Our logo is a modern and funky design which isn't too serious. This makes it attract a wide range of people.

reflective log 11/11/09

About a month ago our group had a meeting with the client to discuss what they want from their video. Since then, over the past few weeks our group has come up with some ideas by looking through magazines and listening to the lyrics of the song to link the video to the lyrics. We also created a moodboard to show some of our ideas. We also worked as a group to design the logo for our company. We wanted to create an edgey logo which was different and what would bring something fresh to the production scene. After deciding on our logo we then designed the letter head, business cards etc. As an individual I designed the final logo which we use on all our stationary. I am also the production manager for our group as nisha is the director and darcy is the producer. The next step for our company is to pitch our ideas to the client and discuss locations and budget.