 Hello Team 5. Thank you very much for sending me your draft plan. This is some feedback. I'm just going to pick up on a few of the points and what I'd like you to do is obviously pay attention and discuss the points in this screencast, but really what you'll need to do after this is to take your copy of the Word document which I have commented and work through those comments in a bit more detail, basically clearing the pink boxes as you go and adding, in your case, quite a lot more detail to your plan. What I'm going to do in the screencast is pick up on just a few of the points. Okay so let's start with the podcast channel and your ideas for that. Looks like you've spent a fair amount of time planning out roles in the team so that's really good. That's exactly what you need to do. Start to get a sense of strengths, weaknesses and who wants to input in what way to your project. So it looks like you've had that discussion. Quite a big team. Okay let's move on to the podcast title because if I talk about this it will give you a sense of the approach that you should be taking at the moment. What was needed here is for you to come up with a title for your podcast channel. What you've given is some sort of sense of what it might be like. Now this is a really good starting point for you. It really helps you as a team to focus in on your planning and design. So the idea here is to come up with a title and create a sense of what it is you're going to be producing together. If you can commit to a good title as a team everything else will start to follow and fall into place. So this should have been the good fun starting point for you. So what we want here is an actual title for the podcast channel. Okay let's move on. You've given me some sense of a structure here. It is a bit thin at the moment. Okay we're talking about a two to five minute podcast so it's not too far off perhaps. One of the things here that I'd like to pick up on is this word informal and you're not alone by any means in using this word to describe the style of your podcast. But as I've said in the comments if you take a closer look at this caution here beware. Informal isn't really telling you anything. It's not telling you anything as a team about what you're going to need. It's quite good to have an agreement about the attitude that you'll be conveying in this podcast. But don't be misled into thinking that taking an informal approach will be easy and that it will result in an engaging podcast for your audience. It's going to be quite tricky to pull it off if you really are going to achieve an informal feeling podcast. It's likely if you're not careful to feel really quite amateur. So just have a bit more of a think about what that means and essentially you've really got a plan whatever you're doing whether you're going for the informal or not you've really got to plan your podcast. Okay let's zoom in here on production time. You've not actually put anything here but possibly you haven't understood really what what you're meant to do. But let's be clear about this. You need to be clear about what each of you in your team are going to contribute to this project. So you need to have that very early conversation right now about when are you each available? When is a good time for you to work together? When you're not together? When can you work on this project? And for how long? Have that conversation now as the team and then you'll be clear about the level of input each of you are going to make and what's expected of you until you start to deal with those questions as a team there'll be uncertainty about things like who's doing the most and who's taking the lead in what area of the project and that sort of thing. So please do have that conversation as soon as possible. That is something that is really very important for you to be clear about at this stage of it. Okay let's move on through here. I'm not going to spend any time talking about this but I'll flag it up. You need to do some work on defining your audience. If you don't know who your audience is you've really got no focus to work towards. You've got to conjure up really quite a real feeling about who your audience is. Right we've talked about channel planning. Let's talk about the episode planning now. Again we want a title because as I said before if you can come up with the title other things are going to follow. It's going to inform the style of the approach. It's going to signal to you as a production team as much as to your audience eventually what sort of approach what's going to come next. So come up with a title. It should be really quite straightforward to do that and it's certainly a good starting point when you're designing this sort of project. Okay so there's more comments there on style and approach and defining your topic. Now this area is also really quite important for you right at the beginning of your planning process. You need to have a brainstorm. You need to look at all the tasks that are going to be involved. Think back to the seminars. You know what is actually involved in this production process and what you need to do is come up with your ideas and convert those. Identify the tasks within your ideas and assign looking at the roles you've identified within your team. Assign who is going to take responsibility for leading each task. Not necessarily doing but leading each task. You need to have someone pushing away at each task to ensure that you get through to the end. There'll be a list here of at least 15 different tasks. That's what you should aim for when you have that discussion. What does Andrew mean by 15 tasks? Well think back to the seminars and that should become quite clear. Okay let's move on through here. File management. Let's just pick up on this because if you get this wrong you can have done a brilliant job the whole way through. Get to the end. Someone's ill. I don't know. Something goes wrong and you've got no sense of where all the files are. How the file naming conventions worked. Just agree that now. That's another easy thing to do right at the beginning. How are you going to manage the files? How are you going to name them? Where are you going to create a backup and you know there should be two or three people in your team that are very familiar with the way the files associated with the planning and the production itself. How are they being managed? Because you can do a brilliant job and it can all fall apart at the last minute because you've lost track of which file is which. Okay I'm going to leave the screencast feedback there. Please come and talk to me if you want any more thoughts about what you should be doing at the moment. But essentially what you need to do now is turn to each other. Now you've viewed this screencast together. Turn to each other. Take a look at the word document itself that I've sent back to you too and work through each of these pink boxes and basically finish that plan off. Now I think you're doing okay. There's quite a lot for you to do there but you have got quite a lot to do really in the next week to fine tune your plan and actually in some cases that there are big gaps in your thinking so far. So keep going and compared to other groups I think you're about there. You know most people have got quite a lot to do at this stage so you know don't worry too much but get it done now. Okay thanks.