How to Work on Multiple Post-Production Projects

Video Transcript

"TRAVIS JOHNS: Hi. I'm Travis Johns with Expert Village, and I'm going to talk to you about staying organized on multiple projects in your home video post-production studio. As I mentioned before, as a freelancer, you're probably going to have to be working for a few different clients at a time to make sure that you're bringing money in all the time. Obviously, you want to label all of your folders on your hard drives specific to those projects. You also want to make sure that any e-mail, telephone, and note correspondence is in a separate place so you're not looking through one, say, legal pad, which has notes from a bunch of different projects all at once. It's better to save yourself the trouble and make sure that you have a specific legal pad for one project, depending on your style of taking notes, et cetera. You also want to make sure that any correspondence isn't going to overlap and, say, go to the wrong person. Sometimes you'll be on the phone while you're writing an e-mail, depending on the deadline. You want to make sure that you've set it up to where, even though you could be in a situation where you're focused, could be going a couple of different places at once. The organizational steps you've taken at the beginning will avoid any confusion at the end. Another useful tip when working on multiple projects at once is to have a calendar or some sort of database with color-coded items based on that client or that specific project so you always know for instance, green means client 1, red means client 2, and blue means client 3. That way, when you're going through setting up your deadlines, making sure that you're not missing anything, that it's quick to find based on the color, and this cuts down on any wasted time as you're going through your work."