What is Workflow?
Work•flow /ˈwərkflō/
“The sequence of industrial, administrative, or other processes through which a piece of work passes from initiation to completion.” – lexico.com
What is a quality workflow? How do we develop it? Below are elements of the production cycle that most creative people move through as they create something. First, we must identify the stages of project production. What is each stage and what are the quality checks for each stage. Read on and find out!
Stages of Creation Development
Inspiration
How do we find ideas to develop?
- your peers, friends, family
- create a plan, write down ideas
- motivation,
- yourself, teachers
Intention
How do we clarify our specific goal(s) for a project?
- pencil and paper, your phone
- make a list of goals and choose one or two to complete by a certain date or amount of time
- go back to your list whenever you’ve met that certain deadline and see if you have completed your goal(s) or not, if not, keep working
- yourself
Pre-production
How can we brainwrite, brainstorm, storyboard, and plan our ideas at this phase?
- pencil and paper, your phone, (something to make a list)
- make a list and branstorm ideas, communicate with your friends, research
- try all of your ideas or choose the one you think is the best or the one you want to use most
- yourself
Production
How do we communicate with each other and execute our plan for this phase? This is where we actually make the project.
- communication through messaging, classtime, or scheduling times where you can all work together
- work through it carefully, make sure you dont miss anything. go back and read it through and make sure it’s how you want it.
- see if the project is how you want it
- yourself, peers
Post-production
How do we communicate with each other and execute our final stages of the project for this phase? This is where we publish the project.
- collaboration with peers,
- go over the final draft and make sure there are no mistakes and it has mostly everything you wanted to add
- make sure you like it and it’s how you want it
- yourself, teacher
Presentation/Performance
How do we share our project with our learning community, advisory members, and the world?
- teachers, publishing it, practice
- put it on a popular site like youtube, or soundcloud. something that people will see it on.
- making sure it’s how you want it, no mistakes
- yourself, teacher
Feedback
How do we conduct a feedback session at the end of the project development cycle?
- peers, teachers
- asking your friends, classmates, or teacher if they liked your project
- seeing if they liked your project, if they didn’t go and practice and take their feedback
- yourself