Working towards a brief
Working to a brief on a website in the media sector is very important because people who are looking on the website need to understand what type of brief it is put also what are the requirements for the role within in the media sector. In different briefs there are different requirements and some are more descriptive than others. You must follow what the brief says to meet the requirements and in some you are able to change things within the brief and then it will help you and the employer to make it the best they can for the website or a text book. For example a contractual brief is when they client just needs to sign the brief and they need to follow.
Another type of brief is a Formal brief. A formal brief is a detailed brief which outlines specifications of a finished product. It is well set out and structured to suit a company's needs. It is throughly explained, therefore the company or employee knows exactly what they are doing. With this brief, the client is open to ideas or issued can be raised by the company. However, there might not be enough information for a client to understand what they need to do and therefore produce a wrong product. There could also be financial issues which might need to be sorted out if a case like this ever happens.
This wouldn't be good for a website or text book for the media sector because there will be more opinions and they might want to negotiate with their employees. The requirements of working to a brief find the one which is best for you and talk to your employees because within the creative media sector it is important as there might be a change and you must read the slowly and correctly in case there might be a mistake or you don't agree with something on it. You need to add everything what is on the brief because everyone will be looking at it and they want it to be as creative as they possibly can. With a website you can add your own ideas but there will be things which the employer will want to be added as well.
Lastly, there is a Co-operative brief. This is a brief given to two or more companies contracted to work on the same assignment. This is a brief which requires multi-skilling from different employees from different companies. However, one of the only troubles that can affect definitely. This can not only rush the product but also make it a bad product. With this brief, along with the skills, there can be different perspectives when negotiating with this brief, which makes the brief somewhat easier. However, whilst negotiating, there would be plenty of disagreements and may take a while to get to a final brief overview.
