Spikything recently completed a large video production project for University of London with colleagues at Imotion, involving taking many of their universities’ courses online (either as distance learning qualifications or MOOCs). Special thanks to our video editing trainee, Rita.

The project involved taking raw footage of tutors delivering lectures, keying the footage, cleaning up audio, adding graphics and branding, etc. Some of the footage was low-quality, phone-filmed, making keying tricky; while some footage was professionally shot in 4k.

The huge amount of assets and people involved means the project needed a reliable mechanism of sharing assets and tracking amends. I created a file-sharing network cluster to enable people working on or reviewing the project to keep things up-to-date easily. I also created a simple online Kanban board for tracking the status of each edit and all deliverables. This helped make the project be more ‘agile’ and kept tasks flowing.

To help the client deliver things smoothly, we encouraged WIP limits and elevation of constraints to reduce blockages, while the tutors were encouraged to involve themselves in the QA and feedback process as early as possible, to reduce feedback/amend cycle time.