Kanban charts are a scheduling system that tells you what to produce, when to produce it, and how much to produce. It is a visual system for managing work as it moves through a process. Kanban visualizes both the process and the actual work passing through that process. The goal of Kanban is to identify potential bottleneck in your process and fix them so work can flow through it cost-effectively at an optimal speed or throughput. In a Kanban chart, there are three columns: To Do, Doing, and Completed. This system was invented by Toyota. I am going to use it for my brief production to help me plan and try to keep to a structured timeframe, so that I do not get over run with work at the end.

Here is my own Kanban chart I have made for my fantasy brief:

To do: Scene 6, put together scenes and finish animation

Doing: Add detail to blog posts

Completed: Scene 1, scene 2, scene 3, scene 4, scene 5, animatic, poster

I also made a Kanban chart on Padlet:

https://padlet.com/alexjcdavis/qzyqpobzjardtboe

I made a Gantt chart to help manage my time for my brief. For the first week, I’m going to do planning and finalising ideas so I can start them next week. Next week, I will get started on my animation as it will take some time to make. The week after, I will start working on my poster. The week after that, I will continue work on the animation. On the final week, It would be industry week and I wont have much time to do my work. So this week would be finishing off anything that needs finishing before the deadline.

Moving forward, I would use the Kanban chart over a Gantt chart as it is a good way of managing time and see what I need to do and what I’ve completed.