The production of audiovisual content involves an endless number of tasks that require strict control.

With PROA, Activa Multimèdia offers TV broadcasters and independent production companies the ideal solution for meeting production management needs.

Modules

FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

The Financial Management module allows budgets to be drafted and monitored right through to real financial data for the production.

Budget Management

• Budgets for each production based on the needs for in-house resources (equipment and staff) and external resources (artists, extras, hosts, etc.), and all other production-related expenses and revenue 
• Budget update and adjustments during budgeting stage 
• Budget management, monitoring and control for each production 
  Production expenditures inserted from the producer’s work platform and automatically linked to production 
• Inclusion of non-financial data in production monitoring (i.e., incidents, remarks, related documents, etc.) 
• Generation of reports for producers, directors, production managers and management boards  

Production Management

• Input of real costs 
• Booking of equipment and staff needs (actors, sets, locations, music, effects, costumes, make-up, props, etc.)
• Guest and audience management
• Administrative monitoring of production
• Generation of updated production monitoring reports for management
• Comparative statistics for various productions

SCRIPT PROCESSING

• Script breakdown into sequences. Sequence maintenance. 
• Sequence grouping based on different criteria (equipment and location requirements, actors, etc.)
• Generation of work plans based on sequence grouping
• Generation of reports on company’s overall production plans based on actual work plan

SHOOTING MANAGEMENT

• Creation of shooting schedules which take budgetary constraints and script breakdown into account. Work plan update.
• Graphic work plan reports.
• Generation of shooting, broadcasting and production schedules
• Input of all data needed for shooting and control on the production or episode data sheet

Advantages

• All-in-one centralized tool for producers and directors.
• Provides comprehensive management of production budgets, including monitoring and control.
• Quick access to all production-related information (financial data, versions, cast and credits, etc.).
• Facilitates planning and optimization of human and technical resources.
• Allows script breakdown using Word macros.
• Provides a comprehensive overview of all production costs, thus vastly simplifying cost control.