Live Brief 2 - Learning Agreements Introduction

The new module of Live Brief 2, gives us our introduction to the learning agreements. These are written and completed at the start of a new project, and are similar to us writing our own project brief, allowing us to be specific in what we intend to achieve. It also helps us learn and understand how we will be assessed, and the aims and learning objectives that we should have in mind and be following throughout the projects duration. A successful learning agreement should help you identify what you want/need to focus on and highlight issues you'd like to overcome, it also helps with planning and gathering sources for research which will come in helpful during pre-production.

A main focus of the learning agreement is proposing your idea and synopsis for the module, and been able to plan out and develop what will be happening when. This improves and establishes an efficient time management skill, and provides yourself and your crew a schedule to follow and keep to. With the learning agreements been negotiable, it gives a more personal feel and allows for certain students to learn more of their speciality instead of the whole class learning the same thing, students can now help and teach each other areas that the others may not know. This specific brief is centred on producing a short film and entering it into a suitable film festival, therefore the learning agreement needs details on what the short film is about, how you intend to achieve it and what you hope to learn, as well as a film festival you can submit your work into and details of the festival, submission fees and dates.

The learning agreement will most likely change and develop throughout the first week or two of the project, while we're pitching and figuring out what roles we will be occupying for the short films, but we're going to start filling in and writing the agreement as if our idea is going to be green lit. This can be later changed and corrected once the pitching stage is complete and certain details are definite. I've started adding to and filling out my first draft of my learning agreement, so the tutors can see brief idea of the idea and path for the project, and can keep up to date and give advice on changes and point out mistakes in my work. Before work can be fully started on our productions, we need both our tutors to sign off on our learning agreements to make sure its completed professionally and is to the standard of quality that is expected from our level at our stage of education. Then after the learning agreements are completed and signed off, we can now follow and execute the objectives and schedule organised within the agreement.