Level 3 Year 2 I.M: November 2015

Types Of Contracts

Contractual Brief -

This is one of the main types of contracts that are a very easy to understand and comprehensible, and for this reason they are a well used type of contract. The brief itself is a legal document between a client and an employee of a specific business/firm. For example, it could be a phone contract agreement, where you are read the main terms and conditions you need to know and you are asked for your main details in order to proceed with your contract (which could be your full name, full address, DOB, etc).

Negotiated Brief -

This is a brief that is highly relevant to this date and age, the meaning is derived from the term Negotiation which is defined as a discussion with a main aim of coming to an agreement. In this specific topic we are speaking of Negotiated Brief, this is where the company may have an issue with things going a certain way with a client so they both work together in order to arrive on the same path by working around the problems they may have, this is the exact opposite to aimlessly arguing. For example, if a Director of Photography (DOP) staff member working at ITV is told to take place of a camera operator which is away on holiday, although, this may be easy for him to do but, also far out of his position he may have to come to a negotiation on the pay he may be receiving whilst being DOP and operating the camera.

Formal Brief -

This brief is used a lot around the world of business, the reason for this is that whilst working in groups the key to achieving goals is organisation and this specified brief is based on the important details which are usually in form of key points or steps that the group must use in order to reach their end target/goal. In my perspective, the reason it is aimed at groups is because it is commonly known that working in the business world you can be placed with people you may like/dislike but, this is down to your group working skills whether you're able to proceed without arguments, it's uncommonly given to individuals as they are usually able to organise themselves much easier. A formal brief isn't always a legalised document. Formal brief is a list of instructions in form of paragraphs, that you have to bare in mind. For example, a team is told to produce a football match based on 1970's compared to 2015. They are then given a formal brief to guide by in case they are accidently mislead.

Informal Brief -

This is a type of brief that is also used quite frequently, it is a brief which usually held through an eye to eye (face to face) meeting. However, all of the aspects that are mentioned within the meeting must then be relevant to all the clients involved in the brief. There are many advantages and disadvantages of an Informal Brief as there are with many things in life, an advantage of an Informal Brief is that they can be created in such a short amount of time as it's real-time communication. However, a major disadvantage of an Informal brief is that it is strongly known as unprofessional and people may not be able to understand in such a short amount of time.

Commission Brief -

This is a brief that is familiarly used in this date and age it is simply defined as a large firm based in media employing not just a worker to help them do something specifically but, to employ another entire media firm working independently to produce a particular product for them. When this happens, sometimes royalties are shared and by royalties I mean credit for producing the video although, sometimes they're not shared. The clients are not always aware of this and for this reason exactly is why the clients always go to the larger company because they are unaware of who is really producing the product. Therefore, the brief is only negotiated between both of the media firms. The advantage of this brief is that the large company don't have to work hard to produce however, they get less in quantity as they have to pay out to the company who did make it and that is a major disadvantages.