Between a unit photographer’s memory card and a press-ready set of stills sits a layer of technical craft most productions never see until it goes wrong: captioning, metadata, format conversion, contact sheets and the file handling that keeps thousands of images traceable.
These guides cover that layer in plain English — how to caption film and TV stills so they stay searchable and correctly credited, when to use RAW versus JPG, what a contact sheet is for, and how the pieces fit together so an approved set is delivered clean. They pair with the unit stills workflow (how images are shot, curated and approved) and the talent image approvals guides (how cast sign them off).