Friday, January 11th, 2008
- What portion of your day is spent addressing the vision of your company? What portion is consumed with mundane business? What portion is spent “putting out fires”?
- Are your “brain surgeons digging trenches” (are your valuable artists wasting their time, your schedule and your money with low-level technical tasks)?
- Does your team approach their work like a film, or like a “science project”?
- Does your workflow “work” and “flow”?
- Is your pipeline robust, flexible, efficient and transparent?
- Do you regard pipeline problems as “normal” and/or “unavoidable”?
- Is your creative talent able to make informed decisions about work in rough form?
- How often are assets and shots sent back from one department to another for revision?
- How often do your artists find themselves on “treasure hunts” (searching for files, trying to determine the correct version)?
- How often are assets created without being deployed?
- Are there contingencies in place at every phase of your production pipeline?
- Does your pipeline efficiently accommodate “re-do” and “same-as” shots?
- Do you have a working strategy for asset re-use?
- What economies of scale are implemented in your pipeline?
- Does everyone in the production chain understand how the same decision can become more expensive at different stages of the process?
- Can your production pipeline economically accommodate last-minute story changes?
- Are you satisfied with your production environment in terms of relationships, communication, adaptation and high-quality delivery?
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