Video Project Planning & Management – Market7 Overview
Posted by Arjun ThomasSourced from ReelSeo.
Market7 wants to be your online collaboration service and video project planning solution and of course make money off of you while doing it. They have free trial accounts to check it out and offer a range of product packages to help you get all your creative from talent to post-production in the same place and on the same page (or in the same frame?). It allows you to assemble teams, define projects, develop content, securely share files, and communicate clearly. The environment’s modules are organized by project stages: pre-production, production, and post-production.
Market7 is broken down into eight key areas:
- Production Brief - a highly customizable and openly accessible question & answer forum
- Collaborative Script - organizes script, storyboard and other key preparatory assets
- Annotative Player – integrates video access with messaging for clear, consensus-driven direction of editing and post-production (this is pretty cool)
- File Management
- Team Management
- Task Management
- Event Management
- Resource Management
Easily the coolest feature is the Annotative Player. Basically when you get the first footage or perhaps some primary photography in video form you can sit down and write your thoughts and notes on direction and production as annotations on the footage. But more on that later. Once you’re signed up and logged in you’re presented with the project home page where you can access all the various pieces of the project from Team straight through to post-production (the video player).
There’s also an introduction video that outlines all the buttons you’re seeing. It’s a bit much as I, who has never been involved in a major video production, certainly have no problem navigating and understanding the system. Since I really wanted to play around with the Annotative player, I got down to uploading a random video from my trip to Sarajevo this summer.
While that was uploading I took a quick tour of the other features. In the team area you can invite people to join your project. The invite box gives you a quick look at previous team members and allows you to invite people by email address. Additionally you can write a specific invite message. Everything one might expect from such a service.
Moving on to Brief gives the user a look at the basics of the project in production brief form where you need to answer specific questions to get your project organized.
- What do you want created?
- Where will it be shown?
- Who is the audience, the cast and crew?
- Why do you want it created?
- What’s the project time line?
- How to proceed?
The next area is the Script where you can collaboratively put together the direction and dialogs for your videos. I don’t particularly like how they implemented it. It feels clunky and doesn’t do things like, line wrap to fit your screen size in some instances (namely in the dialog section for who is speaking). So when you type a long line of text you have to scroll back and forth to see it all. Plus there’s no help as if we should all automatically understand the interface provided. There is an introduction video, but sometimes a good old FAQ does wonders and is sorely lacking at Market7.
File management is exactly that. Upload, download, edit, delete and comment. Organization is also key here as you can create folders and put files into them. Exactly what one would expect from a file management system.
Team management allows you to assign roles, email team members,and check on what each is doing. Pretty basic and aside from roles doesn’t look like you can create groups to put say, the cast into one group and post-production crew into another.
Moving forward brings up the Events manager which is, yes, a calendar where you can schedule particular events. You can also select events and delete or print. Again, a basic but integral piece of project planning.
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