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TIF DI4 Grant Report
Center for Instructional Technologies
Production workflow and cost analysis
The total cost of implementing any production strategy includes capital and personnel time expenditures.
Capital expenditures:
- AV equipment to record/encode events
- AV hardware and software for producing media products
- Server(s) for distributing media products
- Media backup and archiving technologies
Personnel time expenditure is broken down into tasks and where they occur in the production timeline:
Initial
- Gather requirements and establish budget boundaries
- Collaborate/design overall system
- Source and purchase systems components
- Install/integrate and troubleshoot system components
Pre-event (event-specific)
- Plan and coordinate recording/encoding events
Event (event-specific)
Post-event (event-specific)
- Produce media products
- Archive projects
- Administer servers and coordinate distributing media products
Ongoing
- Collect feedback, test, and integrate tools and processes to increase efficiency and/or quality; troubleshoot and upgrade components of production systems
In order to estimate costs for webcasting and video production, CIT developed
a production specification worksheet using Excel. This tool allows a developer
to select from a list of goals, tasks, equipment, conditions, and workflows
for a video production, from pre-event, to event, to post-event. The tool
then calculates total hours required to complete tasks and meet goals.
Download CIT's video production specification tool (Excel doc)
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