I make science documentaries. They involve organization of both written research, media. (video, images, charts, etc.), and the creation of a video script with scenes and metadata.
Just to engagement bait a bit, a lot of you have probably seen them.
These films use a lot of b-roll and stock footage, sometimes hundreds of clips. So a big part of my creative process is figuring out where to place media in the script.
The first system I built was using google docs.
- Write script in google docs
- Media uploaded to cloud media library.
- Add comments on individual sentences with
- media to be placed here
- editing notes
- captions, etc.
- Record Voiceover
- Submit to editor and he figures it out.
The big problem is the comments on google docs are not structured or searchable. So thereās no way to keep track of or get an overhead view of what media goes where.
Then I tried scrivener. I built a pretty good system there. Some advantages:
- I could keep all of the research files, and script in the same browser.
- Multipane editing Great for going back-and-forth
- better organization of the script, I could split it up into segments with Metadata, and have lots of different views available.
- The card view is great for visualizating a film. I add screenshots of media as thumbnails to all of the scenes and get a good ovehead view in card view.
- Slightly more robust comment functionality for notating media placements and editing notes.
But obviously scrivener is a bit clunky and not very good for media management.
I am an absolute newb to obsidian, but just seeing some demonstration of its functionality I have a feeling obsidian could be revolutionary for this process. I can kind of picture an organized database of notes, script, and media alias files synced with the cloud library. All on one living canvas where I can really map out the structure of a film.
So my questions:
- Any advice?
- any helpful templates or links you can point me towards?
- Not sure if itās appropriate to ask here, but if someone was an absolute wizard with obsidian, and is very confident they could build this functionality and help me get setup. Iād probably pay you a couple thousand bucks to help me.