Video Production Tracking

[mb81]

Hello All,

 

I have a new project that I wanted to share with you and see if anybody had anything similar and could provide any helpful information, tips or tricks on database structure, etc.

 

The project is a video production tracking system. The client is a marketing and production company that produces weekly television shows for a variety of clients. What they are looking for is a full service tracking system that can manage what videos they are producing, when they are delivered to the television studio, when they are, the content of the videos, etc.

 

Some important keys to development:

- Each different show may have different production milestones. For example, some of the programs are shot in the studio, and some are shot by the client, some of them have post-production, some don't. Each production milestone must be tracked.

- Each show has a weekly air date and a weekly "log" date (this is the deadline by which it must be at the studio). The log date is different based on what day of the week the progam is aired and on what network.

- They know the air schedule in advance, but the production of the videos is done with only a few days notice, including notification that the show will be a rerun from previous weeks, so we must track the production of the show before we can label it with a number or title.

- In cases where there are reruns, the production cycle changes for the show that week (the tape would still be at the television studio).

 

Has anybody had any experience with this type of system and could provide any helpful suggestions regarding db structure or algorithms that they had to overcome?

 

Thanks,

mb81