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 programmakers to tell their stories on multiple distribution platforms, but they 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 (CHAMP) platform 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 programmakers the platform provides fit-for-purpose cloud web apps to collaborate on a multiplatform story, using consumer devices such as tablets. In this paper a set of innovative platform web apps 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.