Evaluation

Project Manager would lead the evaluation of pre-production documents.

Evaluate in terms of effectiveness for the media products they helped plan.

- Was the right person doing it?
- Was the document appropriate? Would a better/ different document do?
- Changes/ tweaks?

Why do it?
Performance management
Improvement

Why evaluate pre-production docs?
Evaluating the effectiveness of pre-production documentation is vital in ensuring that the final version that is sent to the production team is effective.
If documents aren't checked, they could be the cause of a major planning problem, so it's important that the quality of the documents is evaluated.

How to evaluate:
The documents need to be considered in relation to:

• Sustainability of content for meeting the brief and usefulness in aiding the production team in producing the product.
• Suitability of content for the target audience.

Should use:

• Positive language 
• Consideration for the original designer/creator 
• Specific feedback on any suggested improvement- justifying why it would make the document more effective.

Evaluating a pre-production document (set diagram):

• Suitable- shows all the 'set' so you can see what will be shown on camera. The layout is clear and you can tell its a 'news show' or something along those lines.
• Clear genre of the show- studio based show.
• You can also tell where at least one of the camera is going to be-- however we don't know where the other cameras could be.
• No colours shown!
•  & cant be floor plan as no camera/ lights shown etc...
• No measurements!

Evaluating a pre-production document (production schedule):

• Isn't clear about who needs to carry out these job roles 
• Good colour coordination - each job has a different colour. Very clear
• Spelling mistake 'scedule' 
• Doesn't say what month/ or week/ any dates! so this can be confusing
• You can see that it is a production schedule for an animated film
• Not particularly accurate in terms of timings