We are thrilled to hear that one of our clients, Rita McClenny, Director of the Virginia Film Office, recently received the much-coveted and prestigious 2010 Theresa Pollak Award for Excellence in the Arts for her outstanding work in the area of Films.

After lots of thinking, planning, and hard work (not to mention gallons of coffee), our beautiful new website is finally up and running. It’s a beloved project and we can’t wait for you to check it out.

The Greater Fort Lauderdale Broward County Film Office, known as Film Broward, has chosen Reel-Scout™ as its location and project management solution. In doing so, the Film Broward becomes the 10th Florida film office to use Reel-Scout™.

As added value for Reel-Scout film offices, the Reel-Scout™ system now includes the ability to automatically generate geocodes (also known as the latitude and longitude) of a given location. When creating a new location, film office staff simply have to enter the location address and then click the “validate address” button on the Location Detail page. The Reel-Scout™ system will then pull the address information entered by the film office staff and generate the latitude and longitude from that address. If no address has been entered, the system will generate the latitude and longitude coordinates for the city or town in which the location sits.

Sharon Pinkenson, Executive Director of the Greater Philadelphia Film Office, was the keynote speaker at the recent 2010 Annual Meeting of the Philadelphia Bar Association's Younger Lawyers Division (held on March 31, 2010).

Any Reel-Scout™ client whose system includes the RS8-Admin module can now get an accurate snapshot of the amount of data that its Reel-Scout™ system contains – namely total storage space for locations, total storage space for documents, total number of locations, total number of images, total number of contacts, total number of correspondences, total number of projects, total number of users, and total number of crew records (if the film office is using the Reel-Crew module).

We have good news to report! It looks like California’s economy is picking up again in the film and television industries.

P3Update Magazine recently features Reel-Scout in its October 2009 issue.

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The Baltimore Film Office has chosen Reel-Scout to build an SEI (Search Engine Integration) which allows Baltimore locations sitting in the Reel-Scout gallery of the Maryland Film Office to be displayed seamlessly through the Baltimore Film Office website. In doing so, Baltimore becomes the second film office in Maryland to use Reel-Scout™.

The Dallas Film Commission has chosen Reel-Scout™ as its location and project management solution. For the Dallas Film Office, Reel-Scout™ will provide a digital location library, a contact and project management system, and its newly-released crew module. The Reel-Scout™ functionality will allow the office to refine current practices, to respond quickly to inquiries, and to replace an outdated crew management database.

We now have a new module for Reel-Scout that allows the public (homeowners, brokers, etc.) to submit location information and photos on-line from your film office website. The module will be configure to your film office branding and from the link anyone can upload directly into your Reel-Scout™ system – no password or login required. Once submitted and the location will in real-time display in your Reel-Scout™ system as “unapproved.” You then have the choice of approving them (or not). A few items worth noting:

The Minnesota Film & TV Board has selected Reel-Scout™ as its location and project management solution. In doing so, the film office becomes the 34th state film office to choose Reel-Scout™.

Did you know that the public locations search functionality and the internal locations search functionality are different? As public, visitors can only select one category/subcategory combination to search at a time. When the public visitor selects a main category, the relevant subcategories appear. In addition, [general] and “all” options appear with each category. If [general] is selected, then the only the locations that were identified as [general] are returned. When “all” is selected, then ALL locations (including those identified as [general] and any other subcategory) are returned.

The Alaska Film Office, desiring to capture the interest in Alaska generated by the state’s new film-incentive program, has chosen Reel-Scout™ as its location and project management solution. In doing so, the film office becomes the 33rd state film office to choose Reel-Scout™.

The Missouri Film Commission has selected Reel-Scout™ as its location and project management solution. In doing so, the film office becomes the 32nd state film office to choose Reel-Scout™.

If you are familiar with the locations in Reel-Scout, you can quickly and easily add multiple locations to a package with a single click. Available both on the BROWSE page and the SEARCH RESULTS page is the blue ‘+’ icon. Clicking this icon will immediately add the location to the package. Once clicked the red ‘x’ will display to toggle the add/remove functionality in the package.

f you’ve upgraded to RS8 and have made your locations library publicly available by linking it to your website, you can now track various levels of activity. Now available as a complimentary service with your Reel-Scout system is access to your daily web statistics. Reel-Scout has deployed SmarterStats 4.0 for all fully hosted/maintenance clients.   

This week by popular request, we implemented the ability for users to quickly access location records, not just alphabetically, but also by locations that start with a number or by going directly to the page number. Now it’s easier and faster to get to just the right location!

If you have edit level access to locations, modifying the location data is easy. Simply select the appropriate location. You will notice the gray background highlighting the individual location as you hover over each record. Once you’ve selected the location of interest, just click on the “edit” text and the hyperlink line will appear to lead you to the page of all the data fields.