Our lighting lead/director of photography planned this diagram first on a chalkboard and then with VUE. There are two main points why diagrams like this are important:
1) Making the folder structure clear to everybody. The first row in the diagram explains the names of the folders and who’s job it is to transfer files in and out of there. As we’ve told, we are using Dropbox and it gets easily messed up if there is no plans how to name the files and folders.
2) Making the workflow clear to everybody. Even the crewmembers with “minor” roles need to know what’s about to happen. Also different deadlines are easy to set when you can visualize the path of he project.
This kind of diagram SHOULD have been done from the beginning of the project, but better now than never. It would be wise to print the whole diagram on a huge piece of paper and hang it somewhere so that everybody could see it every day. (You could even have little name-tags that would indicate the person working on a certain stage.)
The day after this was done, we found out that the composing can be done with blender. So we deleted the “After Effects”-stage, because it’s better/faster to do the job with the same programm. The point here is: make your diagrams easy to correct, because there will be corrections!
That’s clear, but what if I have only one man working? What kind of workflow I need then???? XD
In that case you can deside the best workflow for yourself. (Our diagram can help you figure out the different stages of the production and post-production)
You just have to know your resources, software, deadlines… (to name a few). And after that just make a plan for yourself to get the job done!
It’s a lot more easy because you dont have to make diagrams or write your plans down because they are most likely in the back of your head and you are the only person who has to know them 🙂