What it asks of you
Nothing daily.
For a line producer / upm
See post from the production side
Post is where the schedule either holds or quietly stops holding, and you usually find out at the point it costs money.
Tape days connect to air dates
One tape day can serve several broadcast weeks, and the board resolves that rather than making somebody work it out.
Slip is visible early
Stages have real dates derived from your cadence, so drift shows up while there is still room to act.
Pre-production is in the same place
The paperwork spine for each show lives with the episodes it belongs to.
The question that stops
“"Are we going to need another week of online?"”
Everyone else
It has to be worth something to every link, or it gets abandoned
A board only stays true if the people upstream and downstream of you are also getting something out of it. Here is what it does for them.
- Post SupervisorStop being the place answers live
- Post CoordinatorThe status chase ends
- Post ProducerSee the whole season without a status meeting
- EditorBe told what is yours, then left alone
- Assistant EditorStop being asked for the same file twice
- Online EditorKnow the cut is locked before you conform
- Audio / SweeteningGet the handoff with the version on it
- Captioning / LocalizationOne place that says what is ready and what is cleared
- Standards & PracticesYour note is attached to the episode, not an inbox
- Showrunner / EPOne screen, no status meeting
- Network / DeliveryKnow what shipped, where, and whether it passed
- IT / EngineeringNothing new is exposed to the internet
See it on a real board
The demo is the actual software on a made-up show. Open it and look at the part that is yours.
Walkthroughs are with Kevin Kelsey — 15 years an assistant editor, Children's & Family Emmy-nominated, and the person who built this. More about him.