Hi everyone,
The EPOC (Electronic Proof of Concept) you make to support your proposal is somewhat dependent on your project, your skill set, the skill sets of those in your ‘production company’ (or wider community) and, frankly, how driven you are to see your project selected for production in Strategic Media Project.
The EPOC requirement for this course is born directly from contemporary ‘real world’ and ‘industry’ situations, whereby very few funding agencies or production bodies will accept a proposal without one.
To be clear, it is not the whole project, fully realised. It is a taste of what the full project, if made, would look, sound and feel like. How it will be experienced. An audiovisual example of the world, tone and (where applicable) genre of your premise.
Just for example, here are the Screen Australia guidelines for what they simply call a POC (same thing):
As part of your application, you will need to submit:
- a Proof of Concept (POC) relevant to the type of project proposed, for example, linear fiction would require a sizzle reel, filmed sample scenes or a pilot, while a project that relied heavily on user/social interaction may require a prototype or video ‘walk-through’
Screen Australia, 2017, Program Guidelines: Online Production, p. 4 (full doc in resources tab).
I encourage you to think about what you might want to make over the break. Bring these ideas to the Week 7 tutorial and you can discuss with me, and your team, the possibilities for your EPOC idea. That is, how feasible it is to achieve and how effective it would be in selling your digital narrative. Only by sharing your ideas can we decide whether you’re taking on too much work or not enough.
Let you imaginations run free, and I look forward to hearing your ideas!
Have a great break,
Stayci