production resarch

 Production research

Content -

 Find gaps in the market and test the competition. This way you are able to see where the gaps are and fill them with your own innovative ideas. This is a good form of calculating what you need to do and potentially how much you need to spend in order to provide for your customers/ consumers.

Viability -

Is it financially viable and am i going to make any profit from it. The purpose of this is to find out all the pros and the cons in your project and find out if it is financially viable – this includes:

Placement media -

Product placement, get my brand seen by high numbers - I will pay the production team money and I receive celeb endorsement

Costs -

Researching the average costs for talent, crew, pre-Production and post production and aiming to get the best price - comparing between other companies to see the costs

Finance -

 Researching the different finance options such as crowdfunding, private investment, government schemes, charity, lottery money etc.

Technological resources -

Researching the best equipment which is cost effective for production and post production

Resources -

 Hardware is utilized for editing films. Software is the programs that permits you to edit and also use different programs. However, this effects when producing short films as the editor might not have access to a high resolution computer. The software can be planted on various machines preventing them from spending money. The equipment would have to be either bought or hired, that is only if you are an independent producer. This would consume to time to research. Furthermore, in some cases you would need more than one editor meaning that you would need a group license.

Sound and video contents will require the utilization of different sorts of recording and editing software. A scope of equipment and programming choices are accessible for print and multimedia production.

Notwithstanding, on the off chance that you were filling in as an independent producer your equipment would have to be bought or hired for the span of the production procedure. Meaning that you must research and find out how much it will cost ahead of time during the budgeting stage.

Personnel –

Research the people whom I require - the purpose of it is making sure that you get the best person for the job for the best price

Locations –

Contingency plans just in case anything falls apart, make sure that its local for you so that you don’t have to pay for travel expenses for you and your crew. Location recce are also part of the process to ensure that sound and lighting are suited to the genre.

Genre –

Making sure that the location and everything else fits within the genre of my film.