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PROJECT TEAM GUIDE
About the Guide
who is this for?
This guide is designed as a road map to be used by teams of teachers and students to develop and produce a compelling web site - from idea conceptualization all the way to promotion of the finished product. As you go through the production guide, you'll learn about teamwork and how to manage a complex project successfully under the constraints of time and resources.
The Studio Guide provides basic steps that we believe to be essential, based on our own project experience. It's up to you, the potential production team, to craft specific activities for each step, using the examples, worksheets, suggestions, and reference links provided by the Studio.
why movies?
Most of us are very familiar with movies. Anyone who scans the credits at the end of a motion picture can appreciate the number of people and the wide range of skills it takes to create a single movie. The planning, design, and production of a movie provides an excellent example of teamwork.
The process we use to create a Studio 1151 production is modeled after the way movie films are conceived, produced, and promoted, so it also provides the team with the opportunity to develop and hone project management skills.
To learn more about the actual process of movie making, see The Motion-Picture Industry: Behind-the-Scenes.
Studio 1151 was "born" in 1996 as a pilot project to provide a structured format for community college faculty to work with teams of students to develop multimedia content. This Studio Guide provides what we have identified as important steps in the design and production phases of a multimedia project.
how it works
This Guide is organized into a sequence of steps listed in the navigation menu at the top of every screen. Your team will need to modify or create activities to make them work with your particular team or project, and make decisions about how to benchmark your progress.
Typically, the the movie making process is divided into the three phases of pre-production, production, and post-production. The phases outlined in this Guide are similar, but we have broken them into a Design Phase that includes two major parts - Defining the Project and Developing a Plan, followed by a Production Phase that includes Implementing the Plan and Wrapping up the Project.
During the Design Phase, participants will work in a team to:
- Define the scope of a project
- Set specific, realistic, and measurable project objectives
- Design treatments, flowcharts, and storyboards
- Develop a production schedule
- Prepare a budget estimate
- Prepare a Request for Proposal
- Monitor progress continuously
During the Production Phase, participants will:
- Develop a product that meets the established golas within cost, schedule, and quality objectives
- Design and conduct and audience tryout
- Document the production process, including successes and failures
- Monitor progress continuously
- Develop Accompanying Documentation
- Package and promote the product
This phase includes two major parts, Implementing the Plan and Wrapping up the Project.
what's next?
Anyone considering using the Studio 1151 model should next review The Birth of a Project, where you will be encouraged to answer some initial questions designed to help you and your team get off to a good start.
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