Humans, Automation, and Workflow: Seeking Balance in Service of Art

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Publisher: SMPTE — White Plains, NY, USA
Doc Type: Journal Article
Content Type: Original Research
Abbreviated Title: SMPTE Mot. Imag. J
Volume: 130, No. 10, pp. 24–34
Abstract: Since the advent of “workflow” during the Industrial Revolution, companies have been continually seeking to increase efficiency while reducing extraneous tasks or human interaction, including through automation. The media and entertainment (M&E) industry has followed a similar trajectory, accelerated most recently by the transition to digital. While automation is inherent to modern workflows, M&E relies on creativity and the subjectivity of art and therefore requires human intervention. Mitigating issues of algorithm bias, over-reliance on technology, and limited or flawed data inputs creating flawed outputs is vital in promoting healthy collaboration that allows elevated creativity.
Publication Date: 2021-11-01
DOI: 10.5594/JMI.2021.3114847
ISSN: Print: 1545-0279 | Electronic: 2160-2492
Link: https://doi.org/10.5594/JMI.2021.3114847
Author(s): Stacy Chaet
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Stacy Chaet has more than 12 years of experience in a variety of video post-production specialties. Currently, she is a director of workflow at Picture Shop (Formerly Sim), where she oversees media workflow teams from dailies to delivery across multiple facilities. Her teams’ mission is to implement cutting edge workflows as well as act as liaisons between different departments of production. She holds a BFA in film production from Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT), Rochester, NY, and is a graduate of the HPA’s Young Entertainment Professionals program. She has a genuine curiosity for solving technical puzzles as well as a passion for the merging of art and technology. Additionally, she is a travel enthusiast and is a mental health, diversity, and inclusion advocate.
Payton List
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Payton List, a LA-based Chicago native, is a general manager and workflow specialist at Picture Shop. She leads a team of incredible dailies, conform, and deliverables workflow gurus. She strives to help make clients’ lives easier, so they can focus on the creative intent of their projects, and to maintain industry relevance through R&D of new technology and software. As a leader, she values the art of effective communication, technical knowledge, diversity and inclusion, education, and collaboration. In her free time, she volunteers on the HPA Young Entertainment Professionals and Women in Post committees and enjoys speaking on industry panels.
Rachel McIntire
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Rachel Mcintire is a workflow producer with more than ten years of experience in dailies, VFX, and post workflow. Currently, working at Picture Shop (formerly Sim), McIntire has traveled around the world, setting up remote dailies and training new technicians. Graduating from Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, in 2007, and working in post ever since, McIntire is also an award-winning editor, avid outdoor person, and believes strongly in promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion in post. McIntire is agender and uses no pronouns.
Keyword(s): Algorithm, Algorithmic Bias, API, Artificial Intelligence, Neural Network, Automation, Deep Learning, Diversity, Human-in-the-loop (HITL), Machine Learning, Media and Entertainment, Science, Engineering, STEM, Workflow
Copyright: © 2021 SMPTE

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