Story-Centric Workflows in the Cloud

After the transition to file-based workflows broadcasters and production companies are facing new technological challenges. New business opportunities encourage programme makers to tell their stories on multiple distribution platforms, but typically lack tools and platforms to do so efficiently. Furthermore, production platforms should embrace the flexibility offered by consumerization and cloud paradigms. VRT-medialab proposes a cloud hosted autonomous media production platform (CHAMP) that brings innovative production workflows to the cloud. CHAMP is a technology platform on which software and media infrastructure can be offered as a service. For programme makers the platform provides fit-for-purpose cloud webapps to collaborate on a multi-platform story, using consumer devices such as the tablet. In this paper a set of innovative platform webapps are discussed that support a real-life documentary use case. To provide interoperability a flexible story-centric data model is defined. Also public and private cloud concepts are applied to enable high resolution workflows.

Published

2011-10

Content type

Original Research

Keywords

story, cloud, transmedia, consumerization, collaboration, production, multi-platform

DOI

10.5594/M001083

ISBN

978-1-61482-940-9