Case Study: Miss Scarlet and the Duke
“I have to say I don’t know what we would have done without you! Your attention to detail and organizational skills helped to streamline the approvals process greatly and certainly made it much less painful for us and our cast!”
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Key Project Wins
Untangling over 20,000 stills in disarray into an organised format that meant images could be found and identified quickly by the post-production team and distributors.
Using call sheet data, we grouped and labelled images by episode - ensuring everything aligned with production and editorial workflows.
We curated the full image set into a focused, manageable selection for cast review, removing unneeded shots whilst preserving range and choice for approvals.
All cast approvals were completed within 20 days of us receiving the files, keeping the process efficient and avoiding delays during a critical delivery window.
Long Term Collaboration
Since collaborating on Miss Scarlet and the Duke Season 3, we have gone on to work with the team for 3 subsequent seasons.
That work has included:
- Auditing thousands of image files
- Organising stills into episodes, portraits and BTS
- Tagging cast members quickly and accurately
- Batch editing and brightening low-light scenes
- Captioning key shots and embedding metadata
Across the Seasons
Check out the stats ⬇️
Over 41,000 images handled
At least 80% approved by cast
Over 28,000 stills curated out
More than 86 days worth of coverage
Their pain
With over 20,000 images shot across 31 days of photography submitted to production in a disorganised way, full of duplicates with confusing file names, the production team had no idea where to start not only in untangling the mess, but then how to go about getting them approved in a way that didn’t leave them vulnerable to breaching actor contracts due to making errors.
They knew the actors would not want to go through all 20,000 images so they needed to select only the best, usable images to present for approval.
With the stills submitted to them by the photographers on a day by day basis, they also needed to identify which episode they were from and organise them accordingly.
1
Identifying Episodes
After receiving their hard drive, we created a duplicate from which to work and began the process of using the production call sheets to identify which episodes each image belonged to.
2
Image Renaming
We then organised everything into episode folders and renamed the images so that they all contained unique information to make it easy for post-production and distributors to identify and find the images they needed.
3
Curation
After this, our expert image editors curated the images down to a more manageable number for the cast to go through. The production opted for a mid-level edit; removal of duplicates, blinks, false expressions and technically poor images which brough the total image count for approval to ~6,000 images.
4
Logins
We then created accounts for their cast and suppled Welcome Packs to production to forward on to them. These welcome packs contained the casts’ unique login information and a quick user guide so that production did not have to field any support requests across this process.
5
Additional Account
We also supplied an account for the movie’s producer, so she could oversee the progress of the actors without needing to check in with them or their reps.
6
Image Delivery
Once the cast had completed their approvals, we then returned the production their stills drive with everything organised in Killed, Approved and Approved Selects folders. We also supplied download links of all of the approved images grouped by episode for easy distribution.
Timeline
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