When frameworks meet reality

The film production process industry standardized on the highest level, so the process development look fairly easy? Guess what, it’s not.

We have to look at film as a product, different type of films needs different types of products. Without industry knowledge, you will never know and without it l, your processes will not be optimized.

Some examples are described below, but there are much more if going into detail.

• Educational

• Documentary

• Reality show

• Feature

• Short film

• Animated film

• Series

• Music video

• Commercial

• News

• Interview

• Debate

• Reportage

• Theatrical event

• Private

• Sports event

• Social event

• Promotional

We look at the distinct characteristic of differrent types of productions, they are as examples:

• Purpose; Entertain, inform or promote

• Narrative or non narrative

• Live event or not, or a combination of both

• Broadcast, Recorded or both

• Actors an/or persons who act as them self

• Filmed and/or animated

In addition to them, we also have other things to manage in a film production as;

• Different types of funding

• Different countries

• Different categories of buyers and their anticipations

The first question is how to describe this type of input in an EA framework, especially when most of them orginate from IT.

The second, even more important question is, is EA making it easier to make those descriptions, or is it only a way to communicate what we have.

Next week, this is what I will post en the next part of the EA case study.