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Will their progress or results be tracked, and if so, how?
When does the finished product need to be delivered?
A comprehensive plan that answers all of these questions will serve as
a guideline for the entire project and ensure that you end up with a
movie that meets your audience's needs.
Elements of a Project Plan
There are lots of resources that talk about good project planning. Basi-
cally, a good plan will have the following minimum components:
Executive summary
Overview
Audience
Technical information
Task list
Schedule
Script and/or storyboard
Executive Summary
The executive summary is a brief description of the scope and purpose
of the project. Keep this short and sweet—it should never be more
than one page long.
Overview
Here's where you can get into detail that you left out of the executive
summary. Include the scope, purpose, and goals for the finished pro-
ject, and summarize the rest of the sections in the plan.
Audience
The more information you have about the people who will be viewing
this movie, the more accurately you can fulfill their needs. You're
likely to have more than one audience category. For example, you may
be creating a tutorial that shows novice users how to perform a task,
but this same tutorial may also be used by instructors, expert users
who perform the task only occasionally, or managers checking up on
their employees. For each potential viewer type, you should look at:
