Case Study: All Creatures Great and Small
“As first time users, the human assistance PBS received from the Image Approvals team to navigate the system, coordinate with talent reps, and bundle assets for review was instrumental for us to achieve our goals (especially in our short timeframe)!”
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Key Project Wins
Auditing over 9,000 images to verify all files were accounted for, flagging and recovering any missing RAWs to ensure the set was complete and ready for the next stage.
Organising the full set into episodic folders, to make navigation and retrieval easier for production and post teams.
Curating the full set down to just under 5,000 images, by selecting a balanced and relevant range suitable for cast approval without an overwhelming image count to review.
Managed approvals for five cast members across 19 shoot days, ensuring a smooth process even with multiple contributors and a large volume of content.
Long Term Collaboration
Since collaborating on All Creatures Great and Small 4, we have gone on to work with the team for 3 subsequent seasons.
That work has included:
- Conducting comprehensive image audits
- Refining high numbers of stills into usable sets
- Structuring stills by episode and gallery
- Ensuring accurate cast tagging at scale
- Writing captions and applying metadata
Across the Seasons
Check out the stats ⬇️
Over 13,000 images handled
78% average approval rate
Over 6,000 stills curated out
More than 42 days of coverage
Their pain
After wrapping the shoot, the team faced a familiar but time-consuming challenge: managing a volume of over 9,000 images captured across 20 days of unit photography, plus a separate gallery shoot. With images coming from different shoot days, locations, and setups, the material needed careful sorting to ensure nothing was overlooked or misfiled.
Each day’s content had to be grouped correctly by episode, so that post-production, publicity, and cast teams could easily locate what was relevant to them. On top of that, the production featured a large ensemble cast - each with contractual rights to approve their stills. What the team needed wasn’t just manpower, but a structured, well-managed workflow that could handle approvals, version control, and episodic organisation all at once, without slowing the wider delivery schedule.
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Episode Sorting
We mapped shoot days to specific episodes, ensuring that every image was clearly organised and easy to locate in context throughout the approval process.
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Image Curation
We curated the full set of over 9,000 images down to a tight selection of just under 4,500, balancing production needs with editorial quality and approval relevance.
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Cast Experience
We provided a smooth and intuitive platform experience for cast members, making the approval process straightforward and stress-free - even for those juggling tight schedules.
Timeline
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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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