Production Consulting

Fuse leverages its wide-breadth of experience with a big-picture approach early in the pre-bid process; helping to ensure that creative interpretations, production specifications, budgets, and calendars align with the brand teams expectations.

Fuse continues involvement throughout bidding, production and post production processes by managing brand teams expectations, evaluating costs, consulting on shooting matters, improving processes and helping clients obtain the best value possible; while not sacrificing the creative, production value and message.

  • Our Services Domestic and International: TV, Radio, Print, New Media management
  • Creative brief stage
  • Pre-Production: confer on pre-bid meetings
  • Review all pre-bid materials: scripts, storyboards, production /post-production / casting / music – specs, calendars, reels, web flowcharts, retail message maps, App navigation.
  • Review all bid materials: Production bids, director treatments, editorial reels, effects & online finishing bids, music reels, sound- design, production company comments, International service companies, exchange rates, cinematographers, talent
  • Evaluating Directors’ Reels/Photographer Portfolios/Website/App developers
  • HD vs. SD finish
  • Vendor evaluation; Assess all vendors for parity in competitive bid process
  • Bid evaluation for quality bids
  • Calendar evaluation
  • Identify cost-saving opportunities and areas that can be better negotiated
  • Ensure client expectations are met (assess changes to creative through bid process if any)
  • Confer on pre-pro meetings
  • Domestic and International: Internet content, TV, Radio, Print, New Media management
  • Production Monitor shoots
  • Track expenditures
  • Work with advertising agency to analyze overages
  • Post-Production Monitor editorial progress
  • Audit processes and transactions
  • As this is data that it is paperwork (specs etc) Putting in pre-pro
  • Recommend changes to Best Practices as appropriate and implement where necessary
  • Talent evaluation of rights issues and spot potential conflicts before they become critical mistakes.
  • Assess contractual requirements for talent, music, stock footage and other production elements.
  • Define standards for rights negotiations
  • Assist with negotiations, when necessary
  • Coordinate solutions with agencies, vendors and legal counsel
  • Production Analysis Create & Implement a system of Best Practices
  • Analyze historic rights data.
  • Production Budgeting
  • Production Plug Development