Multimedia Production Process: 1 Pre-Production

Interactive Production Process Notes

Multimedia: Pre-Production - Production - Post-Production
by Philip van Allen

Pre-Production

Concept definition
- Title goals
- Audience
- Title Genre - Doom type game, nonprofit web site, kiosk, etc.
- Marketing requirements
- Budget parameters
- Schedule requirements
- X factors
Design
- Story/content/services
- Information architecture
- Visual and sound
- Technical
- Interaction
- Navigation
Production plan
- Storyboarding/content outline
  - Define the scope of the project--how many pages, sounds, animations, etc.
  - Define the flow of the project--organization and navigation
  - Out of this comes the information needed for the rest of the production plan
- Budgeting
  - Production
  - Content experts and other consultants
  - Rights acquisition & clearance
  - Testing
  - Duplication or hosting of test versions
- Scheduling
  - Rights acquisition & clearance
  - Content production
  - Content acquisition (video, text, images, etc.)
  - Software engineering
  - Testing
- Asset management
  - Organization
  - Naming conventions
  - Revision management
  - Backups
- Testing
  - User testing
  - Content testing
  - Functional testing
- Staffing
  - How many in-house staff
  - How many contractors
  - Who does what
- Payment milestones
Documentation
- Design
- Production plan
Assemble team
- Designer
- Producer
- Technical designer
- Art Director
- Audio producer
- Writers and editors
- Graphic artists
- Programmers/HTML coders
- Composers/sound designers/musicians
- Content specialists
- Technical assistants
- Production assistants
- Rights and researchers
- Lawyer
Build prototype
- Test out design direction
- Prove out new technology components
- Get everyone on the same page about what the project is
- See how team works together
Clear Rights
Client sign-off and funding