from research to edit: new ways of collaboration within documentary production
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See our talk here: https://vimeo.com/74920474 In a partnership of producers of factual content at VRT, public broadcaster, and Limecraft, the company behind the online production platform Flow we re-imagined the documentary workflow in order to enable collaboration. Simultaneously we tackled issues endemic to documentary, factual and news production: facilitating, timing, transcribing and annotating interviews, collecting, reviewing and structuring research from a variety of sources and building a narrative without using a standard formatted script. We developed a researcher application with following integrated tools: a docu board, a transcription tool and a storybuilding tool. The docuboard allows for mind mapping website content, audiovisual material and text. The transcription tool partly automates transcription using speaker’s recognition and keyword spotting. The storybuilding tool offers the user blocks to build a narrative from content collected in the docuboard and the transcription tool. As the researcher application is integrated with Flow, all data are semantically discerned and universally represented in its underlying data model. As such data can be rendered in any required production document and turned into metadata. Stored in one single online repository, worldwide collaboration between different production members becomes possible.TRANSCRIPT
From research to edit New ways of collaboration within documentary production
Nico Oorts | Sven Rousseaux
001. | Limecraft
Limecraft creates cutting edge production applications and workflow solutions for creative video professionals. Limecraft was incorporated in 2010, boosting 40 years of research and development
002. | VRT Research & Innovation
VRT Research & Innovation researches the creation, management, distribution and consumption of media content. VRT Research & Innovation is a department of the public broadcasting network of the Flemish Community.
003. | Our Partnership
Joint research effort on next generation production platforms
004. | Researcher Project: Objective
Design an online production platform for factual formats
Researcher Project
Researcher Project
005. | Researcher Project: Use Case
PANORAMA Current affairs program Team of 6 investigative journalists 13 productions per year 52’ per episode 20 - 30 hours raw material per production
006. | Researcher Project: Current Toolkit
§ Word & Excel for writing & planning § Devonthink & Evernote for research § Standard mediaplayers for screening § Dropbox & WeTransfer for file sharing
007. | Researcher Project: Issues
§ Tools are not TV-production specific § Tools are not integrated § Collaboration is hard
008. | Researcher Project: Fundamentals
back to the art of
storytelling
008. | Researcher Project: Fundamentals
Help the user in the iterative process of storytelling
Manage documentary research Seamless switching between research, storytelling & shaping Enable transcribing content and selec:ng quotes & fragments
009. | Researcher Project: Workflow
Docuboard Story Editor
Shaping
010. | Researcher Project: Docuboard
Docuboard Story Editor
Shaping
docuboard get a grip on your research
010. | Researcher Project: Docuboard
Ideas, concepts, online resources & documents collected on one
BOARD
Add clips and quotes later
010. | Researcher Project: Docuboard
Features § Tags & tag groups § Docuclipper (browser based extension) § Support for notes, documents, web resources, audio & video files § Searchable
011. | Researcher Project: Story Editor
Docuboard Story Editor
Shaping
story editor back to the art of storytelling
011. | Researcher Project: Story Editor
Create your story outline and refine story parts continuously
Support your story by adding docuboard snippets, clips and quotes
011. | Researcher Project: Story Editor
Features § Outline your story § Specify directions for image and sound § Connect your storylines with your research § Search within your docuboard for snippets, clips &
quotes
012. | Researcher Project: Shaping
Docuboard Story Editor
Shaping
shaping get your story together
012. | Researcher Project: Shaping
Prepare for the edit by bringing the story and material together
Export all your clips, quotes and docuboard snippets to your edit suite
012. | Researcher Project: Shaping
Features § Assemble sequences per story part § Select bucket items for export § Export to Final Cut, Avid or Adobe Premiere
013. | Researcher Project: Workflow
Docuboard Story Editor
Shaping
004. | Researcher Project: fundamentals
metadata brighten your production
014. | Researcher Project: Fundamentals
Capture a production metadata stream Make the tagging of documents & web items possible Analyse video material Analyse audio material Enable the building of narrative structures
transcriber from interview to quote
015. | Researcher Project: Transcriber
Transcribe your interview and select quotes
Get assisted by automatic speaker recognition
015. | Researcher Project: Transcriber
Features § Use automatic speaker recognition § Transcribe speech fragments § Select quotes § Add question/answer structure
016. | Researcher Project: Technical Solution
FLOW Juice set of media workflow components
017 | Researcher Project: Testing
018. | Researcher Project: Q&A
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