Preparations for a project

I was a bit bored when I wrote this, as more of a joke at start, but in the end I decided to post it. This isn't how we did it, but in retrospect I would have liked to have followed this list.

Preparations for a project like this/things to think about before you are ready to start/Checklist
You are going to start your project soon, and there is a couple of things you should take your time and think over before you start.

1. You should have a story ready for people to get involved in. people you work with have to be interested in making the same type of movie as you. But, as you can't be sure that you'll get any interest in your story, you shouldn't put heart and soul into it yet. the other members should have a saying in the film, You also need to figure out what kind of movie you want to make, you are alowed to change your mind, but in case you get no response to your film, you have to apply for another group.
2. You should find group members you trust, and belive that you can do good work with. At least 75% of your group should be people like that. In a 4 man group you can have 1 person that is choosen to fix a hole in your collected skills, but this isn't the most important right now. Someone can always read up on this, unless it's really esential. (like how to make a box in 3D max)
3. You are now ready to start your planing, there are a couple of things you need to think of.
  a) What style would best tell your story? (How will textures, models, and light be important? are some more important than others?)
  b) Do you have the skills/people to pull this off? if not, check 2.
  c) How long will your story be? (you don't have to know that it will be 3678 frames long, but knowing that you aim for 3 minutes, (give or take) helps in further planing, and it sounds like you are in control of things when people ask about your projekt.
  d) Will your story be to long/short? can you add something if it is to short, and if it is to long, what can you take out and not loose the story. you don't have to remove anything yet, but it's good to wait with scenes that might have to be removed later on.
  e) Now you need to go into detail, knowing what has to be done to make eache individual scene. (like Modeling, SFX, light, textures, animation) and what need to be done outside the diffirent scenes, (Like storyboard, Editing, toturials)
  f) setting up a plan where all the details of the work is puzzeled together between the groupmembers, in your timelimit. Remember that something will probably not go as planed. And Instead of giveing more time on each task, make sure to have more time on the last assignments, so you won't have something to cut from... but even so, I would suggest to keep a week to edit, not because you need a week to edit, but in case something is wrong, you still have time to hotfix it.
4. You are now ready to start working on your film. good luck.