Whether you’re producing a small independent film, or a large-scale TV series, having a streamlined process for approving talent and managing digital assets is essential. Here are the key reasons why every production should have a robust talent approvals system and how it can enhance the workflow:
1. Optimise Your Digital Asset Management (DAM)
With efficient Digital Asset Management, you can ensure that your production stills are well-organised and structured as an easy-to-navigate media library. Services such as auditing, re-naming, reporting and exporting JPGs from RAW files minimise the risk of data loss and makes sure the right assets are available when needed.
2. Episode and Curate Your Stills
Productions frequently deal with a high volume of episodes and scenes that require meticulous organisation. A talent approvals service such as ours can help with episoding and curating images, allowing you to track and manage content coherently.
3. Add Metadata and Captions to Images
Adding metadata and captions to image files not only enhances searchability and accessibility, but also protects assets and saves time in the long run. Handling metadata and captioning with an attention for detail ensures that everything is accurately labelled and easily retrievable.
4. Experience a Speedy Actor Approvals Service
Time is often of the essence in film and TV production. An express approvals service via an accessible and user-friendly platform allows for quick decision-making and rapid progression through making image kills and selects. Having a service like this available means that critical talent approvals are not delayed, keeping the production on schedule and within the set budget.
5. Intuitive and Efficient for All Users
Our platform is optimise for ease of use, so that even the most old-school or tech-resistant users can complete their approvals quickly and easily, minimising pushback or support requests from talent and their reps, and as a result, ensuring timely completion of the process.
6. Effective Communication and Collaboration
A centralised talent approval system facilitates strong communication and collaboration between all parties involved in the process. By having an intuitive platform where all stakeholders can potentially review, kill or approve assets, you reduce the chances of miscommunication and allow everyone to be on the same page. We also provide a 24/7 Help Portal which means you can refer to step-by-step guides and platform information at any time.
7. Get Comprehensive Reporting
During the talent approvals process, there are a lot of elements to keep track of, such as which actors have approved which images and how much of their contracted solo and group percentages they have used. A reliable talent approvals system offers extensive reporting features, allowing you to generate detailed reports and contact sheets that provide insights into total killed and approved image counts, as well as how many stills each actor appears in.
8. Secure Your Assets with Customisable User Permissions
With multiple team members needing access to review images, whether it be cast, producers, publicists or graphics teams, it’s essential to have customisable user permissions on a talent approvals platform. This feature makes sure that each team member has the appropriate level of access, strengthening security and limiting access to your confidential assets for authorized personnel only.
View the results of productions using Image Approvals on our Case Studies page, or reach out to our team if you’d like to get a quote or see a demo.
