Optimization of the Production Schedule of Movie Making - Using PERT - A Scientific Approach for Tamil Movie Shooting Scheduling

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The Indian media and entertainment sector, driven by Bollywood, Tollywood, and Kollywood, relies on complex, interrelated Tamil movie production activities. Tamil film making involves numerous dependencies across artistes, technicians, equipment, sets, costumes, and catering, making purely perception-based planning insufficient for an optimum shooting schedule. This paper introduces a scientific pre-production approach using network scheduling, applying CPM and PERT to handle uncertainty in activity durations. A numerical example illustrates a marginal reduction in production time.

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ABSTRACT

I. INTRODUCTION

Critical path and CPM limitations

PERT for project duration planning

Crashing and time-cost trade-off

II. PHASES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Planning

Scheduling

Control

III. PROJECT EVALUATION AND REVIEW TECHNIQUE

Beta distribution and expected duration

Three-time estimates in PERT

Optimization of the Production Schedule of Movie Making Using PERT 1 S. Aramuthakannan2 S.Lokesh 1Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics, PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research, Coimbatore-641062 2Associate Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,PSG Institute of Technology and Applied Research, Coimbatore-641062 | ABSTRACT
The Indian media and entertainment industry are the fastest growing industries in the country. Its various segments like Bollywood, Tollywood, and Kollywood have witnessed tremendous growth in the last few years. Tamil Movies attracts fans in most parts of the world using a variety of technologies and techniques. Tamil film industry contributes a marginal share to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of the Tamil Nadu state economy. Tamil movie makinginvolves with number of interrelated activities requiring artiste, technicians, cine equipment, sets, costumes and catering. It is impracticaor a production company to plan and implement optimum schedule just by perception, based on capabilities and work experience. A systematic scientific approach has become necessary. This paper introduce a new approach to the pre-production stage of the Tamil movie making by applying network scheduling techniques, Critical Path Method (CPM) and Programme Evaluation and Review Technique (PERT) for shooting scheduling problems. Tamil Movies released after the year 2010 are considered for this work.Findings of this study indicate that, a marginal reduction in production time in movie making. This approach is illustrated with numerical example in the concluding part of the paper.
KEYWORDS: Pre-production, Network techniques, shooting schedule, PERT, CPM | | | --- | --- | | Date of Submission: 04-09-2022 | Date of Acceptance: 19-09-2022 | I. INTRODUCTION The critical path is the one from the initial stage of the project to the finishing stage of the project where the slack times are considered as zeros. (H.N.Ahujaet al., 1994) . The acknowledgment ofseriousof activities on the critical path is completed by CPM, hence the resources may be governed on these activities in order to reduce the length of the project. (D L Mon et al., 1995.) The activity duration obtained by CPM often, is an uncertain value so that the result of classical CPM calculation cannot complywith the real-world situation. The tenure of particular project activities can be defined in a real time by using appropriate tool. The PERT has been developed for obtaining the project duration.(J.E.Kelley and M.R.Walker,) . So in this paper, PERT is used as a tool for planning and coordinating Tamil movie making. Table 1. Data Collection on Genres of Tamil Movies [1] (Source: Wikipedia) Movie production controllers apply a process called crashing,while performing most of the projects in which they have to shorten the movie production schedule. As in the crashing problems (Z.Zhu and R.B.Heady,1994)money has to be spend to further curtail the projects duration, it can be said that money is DOI: [10.9790/5728-1805010105 www.iosrjournals.org 1 | Page](10.9790/5728-1805010105 www.iosrjournals.org 1 | Page) being compromised with time, known as time cost trade-off problem. (H. Nikoomaramet al., 2010) .Minimizing the original movie production schedule (project duration) is done by „crashing of activities in PERT/CPM networks‟ which results with the lowest amount of cost useful for movie production controllers. II. PHASES OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT Planning:It involves sorting of tasks or jobs (work break down structure or (WBS) that must be created to the successful completion of a project to be concerned. Scheduling: It analyses laying out the activities of the project in a sequence of time in which they have to be performed. It also deals with the initial and concluding time for each activity, critical path on which activities requires special attention and applying float for non-critical paths. Control: This phas

FAQs

Why is a scientific scheduling approach needed for Tamil movie production planning?

Tamil film making involves many interrelated activities and dependencies, and perception-only planning cannot reliably produce an optimum schedule. CPM and PERT support more systematic network-based scheduling under uncertainty.

How does CPM help in identifying activities that need special attention?

CPM completes the acknowledgment of activities on the critical path by considering slack times as zeros. Resources can then be governed on critical-path activities to reduce overall project length.

What are the three-time estimates used in PERT?

PERT uses optimistic time, pessimistic time, and most likely time for each activity, deriving a single expected value for scheduling. This supports better handling of uncertain activity durations.

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