Reporting on the process of working to a brief

Unit 5: Working to a brief

Introduction

This Report will explain a bit about working to a brief. Working to a brief is something many people do if not everyone in this modern day and age. A brief is something that makes you aware or your task and how to go about accomplishing it and is usually given to an employee or student from a boss or teacher. In other words a brief is a guide to inform people of a task and maybe some directions on how to complete the given task.

1.1 Structure of a Brief

A brief can be structured in lots of ways but usually it depends on who the brief is aimed at and what the actual task is. Most of the time a brief will start of with an introduction to the subject or event to familiarise the reader with the topic. The next part of a brief, would be the mission or accomplishment section showing the reader what their goal is and a usually an idea on how to achieve it followed by the date of the deadline. Sometimes it is left up to the reader to come up with way to achieve the goal.

2.1 Reading a brief

Reading a brief is a bit like reading detailed instructions or a mini manual for doing something and trying to achieve a possible outcome. People who read a brief usually pay the most attention to the times and deadlines stated in a brief so that they can be aware of how long they have to complete the main task or mission it is informing them of and the goal. The main things to look out for when reading a brief would be the task and dead line.



Here is an example of a competition brief     http://competition.sundance-london.com/

As you can see there are sections for certain things where it informs you of things like the entries date and closing date and also a section to explain what the competition is about and what to do.

3.1 Negotiating

When a brief has been read there often is some kind of negotiation going on especially for students. Usually students will talk with their pairs to further understand the brief if it is unclear or they will negotiate ways of achieving their goals. If employees were to negotiate something it might either be because they don't understand something or there is some kind of problem and the boss and employee is trying to come to an agreement.

4.1 Opportunities created by a brief

Briefs create lots of opportunities when working to achieve something especially if you haven’t tried a certain topic, subject or job before. Sometimes you have the opportunity to win a prize depending on if the brief is for a competition but with work you have the oppertunity to get paid and also gain new experiances.

5.1 Different types of briefs

There are different types of briefs for different types of jobs and purposes. Here is a list of diffenet briefs.



Competition brief: This brief mainly provides details of what you have to do and the deadline.



Contractual brief: This kind of brief requires a contract between the commissioner and the producer or employee.



Negotiated brief: A negotiated brief is a brief thats negotiated between the commitioner and the producer about the task and fees for acomplishing the task.



Formal brief: A formal brief is a brief that is payed a lot of attention to while being written and also written to strict legal guidelines.



Informal brief: An informal brief is a brief that isn't formal. Usually the dress code for an informal brief is casual if its in the form of a meeting rather than a letter.



 

Conclusion

In conclusion briefs are very important when it comes to working towards completing an assignment or competition or anything with tasks and dead also very helpful.