Case Study: The Pendragon Cycle

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– Mathis Glover, Producer

Key project wins:

• The organisation of a huge production spanning almost 18,000 images, shot across 76 days of photography, with approvals managed for 10 cast members.
• Images received and uploaded weekly, in order to facilitate a quick start to the talent approvals process whilst production was still underway.
• Identified and corrected issues with images that were submitted incorrectly, such as spotting duplicate files and files with problematic naming conventions.
• 15,550 images were approved by the cast, resulting in 87% of the total images being useable for the post-production team.
• All images were organised and ready to return to the client within 1 working day of the cast completing their approvals

Their pain:

• An incredibly large volume of images and a large cast, with 10 talent requiring approvals to meet their contract terms.
• They needed a flexible pricing model that would reflect the different amount of images submitted from each shoot day.
• They wanted to get the talent approvals process started whilst filming was still in progress, and needed to be able to show producers images on a weekly basis.
• With 10 members of cast having stills approvals, they needed an easy way to manage and track their progress.
• They required all kills to be formally logged and documented

Our solution

• To enable the client to upload images daily and review on a weekly basis.
• We provided a thorough auditing process to ensure the integrity of the assets, with extremely process-driven workflows which is incredibly important when dealing with images of this volume.
• We implemented a strategy for navigating cast approvals that ensured the producers met the cast contract terms around approvals, whilst providing a good user experience for actors.
• We provided producers, actors and their reps with an easy-to-use digital approvals platform.
• We were able to supply a full set of reports both in visual PDF and data-driven spreadsheet format.

Timeline:

Oct 27^th – Started to receive images on a daily basis.

Oct 27^th – First set of stills processed and released for cast approvals the same day.

April 12^th – All cast approvals complete.

April 15^th – All images organised and delivered back to the client with the final set of reports, on the next working day.

Do you have a cast with stills approvals rights? Want to prevent your team losing hundreds of hours to inefficient working AND keep your talent happy by giving them an easy to use online approvals system?

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