Reel-Scout™’s flexibility means it can adapt itself to your needs, play to your strengths, and shore up your weaknesses. Read on.
The Metro Orlando Film and Entertainment Commission, like all film offices, was constrained by limited budget and finite resources, and yet activity was increasing regularly. Keeping up with demand was proving more and more difficult. Adding another employee was not an option, but adding Reel-Scout™ was. Now Orlando has both the system it has always needed and, in effect, the additional employee as well. Think of the most dependable, reliable, consistent, tireless, and professional employee you've ever worked with. Now think about that person working 24/7 -- gladly, willingly, without complaint, and without benefits. That's Reel-Scout™ for Orlando.
The Utah Film Commission, long one of the more respected film offices in the country, had invested in an on-line digital library not too long after that technology became available. By design, they were not the first commission to create an on-line library; but once enough reconnaissance had been conducted to understand options, the library was built. A year later UFC invested in Reel-Scout. Why? Because despite UFC’s investment in an on-line library, its contact and project databases were not integrated. Tracking projects and managing all the offices contacts – be those location or project contacts – was becoming increasingly difficult and inefficient. Problem solved. Reel-Scout means better processes, better data management, and better use of staff time for Utah.
The Maryland Film Office desired that its Reel-Scout™ system integrate seamlessly with its existing website. Particularly, MFO wanted the digital library component of Reel-Scout™ to house all of its digital images — both those that would be kept internal and those that would be made available for searching and viewing on the public website. MFO desired that the Reel-Scout™ functionality allow the staff to “select” which images from the library would be pushed out to the website, but that the location data associated with those images be kept private. MFO wanted to label only certain images for public consumption, and, regardless of which images were selected, remove from those images the data that had previously been logged with them – all in the click of a finger. Reel-Scout™ delivered. Reel-Scout™ means better location management for Maryland.
The three film offices representing Miami and Dade County (Miami-Dade Mayor’s Office of Film & Entertainment—representing both the city of Miami and Dade County; the Miami Film Office—representing the City of Miami; and the Miami Beach Film Office—representing the City of Miami Beach) desired to collaborate more in project management but be less dependent on one office for response to inquiry. Before getting Reel-Scout™, two of the offices were dependent on the third for responding to inquiry and for the management of all digital images. Two of the offices weren’t equipped to manage and/or respond with their own locations. Similarly, since these jurisdictions overlap, it was becoming increasingly important that each office be able to contribute to the recruiting and management of a project in conjunction with the other offices, not independent from. Reel-Scout™ has provided the platform by which each office can manage its own locations, keep apprised of all steps that have been taken to land and/or work a project by the other offices, and contribute to the process itself as needed. Reel-Scout™ means more collaboration, and yet more autonomy, for all of Miami.
The Texas Film Commission wanted to replace its current, mostly-manual process of responding to inquiry with a technological one. The response-to-inquiry process of Reel-Scout™ was to be customized to mirror the way by which Texas fulfilled requests. The final product of the Texas response process was a nicely-bound folder containing high-resolution, uniquely-printed images of the desired locations. TFC desired that Reel-Scout™ user be able to able send an entire location file to the printer, and the system would then queue the multiple images of that location properly, sort through the three versions of images (thumbnail, medium-res, and high-res) that Reel-Scout™ stores for that (and all) location(s), cull the high-res images from that location, print only the high-res images, and deliver a document that was printed in the same unique configuration as before which could then be bound as usual. Not a problem for Reel-Scout™. Reel-Scout means more efficiency for Texas.
