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.

1. From research to edit
New ways of collaboration within documentary production
Nico Oorts | Sven Rousseaux

2. 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

3. 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.

4. 003. | Our Partnership
Joint research effort on next generation production platforms

5. 004. | Researcher Project: Objective
Design an online production platform for factual formats

6. Researcher Project

7. Researcher Project

8. 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

9. 006. | Researcher Project: Current Toolkit
§ Word & Excel for writing & planning
§ Devonthink & Evernote for research
§ Standard mediaplayers for screening
§ Dropbox & WeTransfer for file sharing

10. 007. | Researcher Project: Issues
§ Tools are not TV-production specific
§ Tools are not integrated
§ Collaboration is hard

11. 008. | Researcher Project: Fundamentals
back to the art of
storytelling

12. 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

13. 009. | Researcher Project: Workflow
Docuboard Story Editor
Shaping

14. 010. | Researcher Project: Docuboard
Docuboard Story Editor
Shaping

15. docuboardget a grip on your research

16. 010. | Researcher Project: Docuboard
Ideas, concepts, online resources & documents
collected on one
BOARD
Add clips and quotes later

18. 010. | Researcher Project: Docuboard
Features
§ Tags & tag groups
§ Docuclipper (browser based extension)
§ Support for notes, documents, web resources, audio & video files
§ Searchable

19. 011. | Researcher Project: Story Editor
Docuboard Story Editor
Shaping

20. story editorback to the art of storytelling

21. 011. | Researcher Project: Story Editor
Create your story outline and refine story parts continuously
Support your story by adding docuboard snippets, clips and quotes

23. 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

24. 012. | Researcher Project: Shaping
Docuboard Story Editor
Shaping

25. shapingget your story together

26. 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

28. 012. | Researcher Project: Shaping
Features
§ Assemble sequences per story part
§ Select bucket items for export
§ Export to Final Cut, Avid or Adobe Premiere

29. 013. | Researcher Project: Workflow
Docuboard Story Editor
Shaping

30. 004. | Researcher Project: fundamentals
metadatabrighten your production

31. 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

32. transcriberfrom interview to quote

33. 015. | Researcher Project: Transcriber
Transcribe your interview and select quotes
Get assisted by automatic speaker recognition

35. 015. | Researcher Project: Transcriber
Features
§ Use automatic speaker recognition
§ Transcribe speech fragments
§ Select quotes
§ Add question/answer structure

36. 016. | Researcher Project: Technical Solution
FLOW Juice
set of media workflow components

37. 017 | Researcher Project: Testing

38. 018. | Researcher Project: Q&A
nico.oorts@limecraft.com sven.rousseaux@vrt.be
www.limecraft.com innovation.vrt.be
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