Elements and Performance Criteria
- Plan production process for advertisements
- Confirm timing and budgetary requirements for creative and production work
- Assess creative brief and identify factors that influence the production process
- Investigate and determine production processes to suit the advertising brief, creative work and advertising medium
- Determine specifications to suit both the advertisement and production process
- Schedule preproduction work to meet production and post-production requirements
- Plan a production schedule to meet requirements of advertising brief and media plan
- Evaluate and select suppliers
- Identify suppliers for each element in production process
- Assess suppliers in terms of their expertise and capacity to meet production, budget and schedule requirements
- Base choice of suppliers on merit and value for money and their capacity to meet legal and ethical requirements
- Brief and gain agreement from suppliers on production, schedule and process requirements
- Direct advertising production process
- Integrate management of all aspects of production process to meet requirements of the advertising brief and schedule
- Involve creative specialists in production process to solve creative problems and to advise on creative changes to ensure resulting advertisement is consistent with objectives and positioning for the product or service
- Ensure outputs from production process meet requirements of the production schedule, creative brief and media plan and meet legal and ethical requirements
- Evaluate advertising production
- Evaluate quality and costeffectiveness of production processes and report against requirements of the creative brief
- Ensure evaluation processes are valid and measure quality against standards established in the creative brief
- Evaluate final advertisement in relation to requirements of the creative brief