Case Study: Chief of Station

“I’ve been producing for many years and it’s always a great pleasure to find a vendor who brings excellence to your project. This group is COMPETENT and ON IT from the moment they are engaged until they deliver in spades. One less hassle in the cornucopia of them in the delivery process. You won’t find a better company to handle your cast approvals. Really great!!!”

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-Steve Jones, Producer

Key project wins:

• Organising approximately 3,000 stills into easy-to-navigate folders with filenames that facilitate easy search and identification.
• Curating images into a manageable selection of the best shots for cast to approve which resulted in an overall approval rate of 86%.
• All cast approvals completed and images delivered back to client within 23 working days of us receiving the images.
• Images returned to the client organised into Killed and Approved folders for both RAW and JPG formats along with a complete set of reports.

Their pain:

• The producing team needed an affordable solution for their stills approvals needs and a quick turnaround in order to make image delivery requirements for the film by their deadline.
• With 2820 stills they did not want to waste their time or the time of their A-List cast by having them look through thousands of shots that may not even be necessary.
• Alongside the RAW files which they did not have the ability to read, they only had a small number of low-resolution JPG selects provided by the photographer which meant there were thousands of images they could not view or open.
• As well as requiring talent approvals management, their producing team needed a way to select 150 key images to be delivered as the main image set for use.

Our solution

• To meet the client’s budgetary needs, we came up with a custom solution that enabled them to get the best price possible for their project’s stills approvals.
• We created high-resolution JPGS from the RAW files so that the client could access everything they needed to.
• Before images went out for talent approval, we provided a first pass over them to curate them down. This meant removing images that were duplicates, out of focus, unnecessary, unflattering or otherwise unusable by the production.
  • This enabled us to present the best 923 images from across production, being sure to include full scene coverage from multiple angles, shots of all key cast, captivating behind the scenes images, and other shots they would need such as plates and prop details.
  • As a result of us presenting the best images to the cast, a whopping 798 images (86%) were approved for use.
• Once the cast completed their approvals, the producers were able to view the approved images and mark their selects on the Image Approvals platform.
• Once all talent approvals and producer selects were completed, we then delivered the stills to their post-production team with everything organised into killed, approved and approved selects folders. Any images that had been curated out were also retained in their own folder.
• We also provided a full set of reports so that they have a log of which images were killed, approved, or marked as a select.

Timeline:

July 21st – Original images received.

July 31st – All images organised and online ready for cast to approve.

August 22nd – Approvals complete and organised images delivered to post-production team.

Excellent

Based on 13 reviews

Michael Sparaga

2023-09-26

Working with Image Approvals was an absolute pleasure. From our initial call to final delivery, there was never a moment where we didn't feel like we were in extremely capable hands. Their app for approving or killing photos is incredibly straightforward. Not one of our six actors ever reached out to ask for clarity on how to use it. As an ex-stills photographer herself (and a darn good one!), Aimee knows what it takes to deliver top quality stills to your distribution partners. This was our first time working with Image Approvals, but it won't be the last!

Steve Jones

2023-08-30

Been producing for many years and it's always a great pleasure to find a vendor who brings excellence to your project. This group is COMPETENT and ON IT from the moment they are engaged until they deliver in spades. One less hassle in the cornucopia of them in the delivery process. You won't find a better company to handle your cast approvals. Really great!!!

Jeremy Elliott

2022-10-13

The team at Image Approvals were fantastic to work with. Super fast turnaround and great customer service. Highly recommend them.

Josh Brandon

2022-08-09

Aimee was absolutely on the ball from start to finish. Her process was simple, professional, and affordable. I will work with Image Approvals again for sure.

lauren cox

2022-07-07

We've worked with Image approvals on a couple of our productions now and it's always be a very positive experience. Aimee and her team are very efficient, professional and easy to work with.

Rhys Kimmitt

2022-07-01

Aimee is a joy to work with and her software is so user friendly, both for talent and producers/PR folks. I’ve used several other platforms in the past but this is far and away my favorite. Highly recommend.

kate bowe

2021-04-13

As unit publicist to the Catherine Tate movie, This Nan's Life, I worked with Image Approvals using their full-service package to help manage talent approvals for the film's stills photography. The team were lovely to work with, helpful and fast to respond and their online approvals platform was very quick and easy to use. I highly recommend them and look forward to working with them again.

Christelle Randall

2021-04-08

Aimee's Image Approvals service was such a life saver. They helped us unravel our unit photography into manageable folders that were easy for us and talent to navigate. Aimee's team were patient as we went through the process and gave us guidance throughout. They are incredibly good value for money and I work with them again in a heartbeat. Thank you Aimee and team. From Christelle and all the Anne Boleyn production team x

Laura Beth Winchester

2020-07-22

I'm part of the marketing team for WTA Media and we engaged with Image Approvals to help streamline our talent approvals process for one of our larger feature films, Redeeming Love. It was INCREDIBLY easy to use and saved us so much time! We opted to manage everything in-house and the Image Approvals customer support was fantastic. Aimee made sure we had everything we needed to get going, was fast to respond whenever we had any questions and was always flexible to our needs. Image Approvals gave us quick and easy welcome packs that we could forward on to talent reps so they could go through their approvals without needing any support, which was great! We were also able to track the actors' progress and see when they had completed without having to check-in with reps. All of our actors found the platform extremely easy to use and loved that it saved their progress as they went so they didn't have to do it all in one go. Image Approvals has seriously made our job so much easier and we will definitely look to work with them again!

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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