This week is not about metadata, but about remembering American camera assistant Sarah Jones who died in a train accident during a shooting for the movie “Midnight Rider” on February 20. Briefly after the tragic incident, several camera assistants and other filmmakers built the Facebook page “Slates for Sarah”. In[…]
The Munich Filmwerkstatt is a non-profit association with the goal to promote the film making scene. Furthermore, it is renowned for its seminars and trainings. Of course they have a seminar for Script Supervisors, too. And we are so lucky to be a part of it. We think that this[…]
It’s not only us engaging in the accurate communication of metadata between film set and post-production. Visual Effects Society for example published a standardized format for camera reports late last year. This helps to gather VFX information and transfer it to the editor’s room more effectively. It is based on[…]
Is it Christmas again? Our easySCOTT Team has been feeling quite christmassy since we received the latest order for our metadata service. Our script supervising app will get the opportunity to show again his abilities working on the movie “Alles ist Liebe”, meaning “It’s All Love”. It is about the[…]
Besides the script supervisor, the clapper loader is one of the most important metadata supervisors on set as he – among other things – labels the slate. In film productions not relying on a digital workflow he ensures that clips (or footage) can be clearly matched with content information. A[…]
On the long term, a structured Metadata Management is the best choice for movie production companies. During the production of a season of a TV series you shoot several scenes for different episodes in one single day. Enabling the post to keep track of everything and making the preps for[…]
Please allow us some reverie about standardized metadata exchange between audio recorders, cameras, crew and editing in today’s Metadata Monday. First of all, producers of audio recorders took a step in the right direction. In 2004 they met up at the Institute of Professional Sound IPS (back then the name[…]
We are happy to announce that we have accomplished the enhancement of the easySCOTT import function that makes the preperations for a project as easy as possible for the Script Supervisor. Our vision: to be able to import data from every preproduction tool via the easySCOTT webaccess. The benefit: no[…]
Today we’d like to honor the oldest and most popular way of managing metadata on set. A tool of outstanding simplicity, saving so much time in editing, a product of haptic elegance in a time of ongoing digitalization: the clapper board! For all the do-it-yourself afficionados, who are looking for[…]
There’s a lot to do and the finish until NABShow in April already started. So it was clear: We’re going to need another Timmy! That’s why we are so happy that our easySCOTT Team has a new member. Tim Bodeit will support us as a trainee and help out in[…]