Commission Brief
Commission brief is when a large media company you hire independent media company to create a product. Therefore it would be their own ideas and research. The way this would work is that when the larger company would use the project for a client and that client will pay the independent media company because they created the product. This brief not negotiated with the client.
Advantages
The larger company does less amount of work than the independent company. The work that is set out in the brief can be given to another company and both companies will still get paid.
Disadvantages
There could be conflict between the two companies because they're both working on the same product. Also because the brief isn't negotiated with the client it might not be up to the client's standards.
Co-operative Brief
Co-operative brief is where there is two or more companies that are hired by the client to work on a project and when they are given the brief they begin to create the product but both or all companies need to receive the brief in order them to all start creating the product. If there is any disagreement within their ideas they would have to use a negotiated brief.
Advantage
Having two or more companies working on the same brief will give you more prospectives so the brief can have more of an understanding because there is more than one company working on it
Disadvantage
There can be conflict within the ideas because there is more than one company working on the same product therefore there would be a numerous amount of ideas and some of the companies might not want to do the other companies idea.
Informal Brief
An informal brief is without any paper work or formal meeting. It has to be done together with a client and have a small meeting within the client to discuss the project. This also doesn't include a contract, however the brief has to relate to the company.
Advantage
This brief is less complicated and more straight forwards brief, also it sets a nice atmosphere because the brief is easy. You can change the ideas throughout because there is no contract and you can make it more creative because you don't have a lot of limitations.
Disadvantages
It's too informal therefore there's just one meeting with the client and no documents therefore the ides and procedures are only verbally discussed, so might forget to add in certain things and there is a possibility that you won't get paid because there is no contract that is signed.
Negotiated Brief
A negotiate brief is where two or more companies come together to negotiate ideas about a project. This negotiation doesn't stop until there has been an agreement made. This negotiation allows you to add in new ideas but they have to be under the legal guidelines, if the legal guidelines are broken then you will get sued.
Advantages
Throughout the process it will let you know how well your doing, what has improved and what needs to improve, for an example, visual aspects. T=With this brief there is a less conflict and more solutions made.
Disadvantage
Over discussing won't solve anything, therefore both companies will agree on one idea because of the fact they over discussed it so they are not exploring their ideas.
Tender Brief
A client will publish an advert let people know that they want a media company to create a product, furthermore the productions will send their brief's and it's the client's decision on what proposal they would want.
Advantage
The client has a numerous amount of ideas to choose from, or build on another ideas to create one big idea.
Disadvantage
Could waste the companies time because all the companies that have applied won't all achieve the job.
Formal Brief
This brief has a ll the rules and regulations for the company to proceed from what the client is telling you to do. You can only use information for the project and you have to agree with the regulations. However this brief doesn't always cover legal constraints.
Advantages
It is easy to follow therefore the client can understand it easily and the different aspects of the contract. This brief is more professional than informal brief because you ave proper meetings and a signed contract.
Disadvantage
You would have to start paying for products out of your own money if you would want to change anything because it can't be changed.
Compeition Brief
This brief is open to any company.