Types brief
Contractual - Employment contract meaning two party's agree when the project gets finest.
Formal - Outline their requirements for you and it would be someone you know from a previous project or a friend.
Negotiated - Develop the brief to benefit them both but it mite have ups and downs with the benefits with both party's.
Informal - Call you and discuss their requirements not face to face case you and the employer mite not know each other.
Tender - Everyone can apply with the necessary skills.
When you are given a brief you must do what the client wants if you don't the client will go to a different company.
And when you need the hand over the work they want it.
You need to know what the client wants.
And who the client want its to be aimed at.
And you must know what the budget is.
What issues you may have with a client
Info is not getting to and from the client and the team.
Times keep getting change.
People did not know they where getting film.
If the client finds someone else.
If the client does not like the work you have done.
If they want the work in at a earlier date.
Here is a list of the documentation you must need to show the client:
ideas
presentation to pitch
mood boards
storyboards
constraints
research
how you will do it
layouts
treatment
preproduction documents
budget
gantt chart
overall outline or proposal
background details about client
any research carried out by client
what they hope to achieve
target audience
initial outline or proposal