Watchtower

Interactive film production management tool. Watchtower allows you to see the big picture of a short film or episode and unpack as much information as needed, down to the duration of a shot and assets used in it. All in the space of one screen.

Features

• Grid view (for shots and assets) with grouping and filtering tools
• Detail view
• Timeline showing individual shots as well as task statuses
• Compatible with zou as data backend

Development setup

yarn install

Watchtower is a Vue application. It can be managed through the vue-cli package.

Populate with data

• Have access to the API of a working Zou (and optionally Kitsu) installation
• Follow the instructions in pipeline/README.md
• At this point it's possible to run Watchtower and check the status of your production
• For each project it's currently necessary to manually place an edit.mp4file in static/projects/<project-id>/

Compiles and hot-reloads for development

yarn serve

Lints and fixes files

yarn lint

Run in production

Use yarn build to create a build that can be deployed on a production server. The application can be served as a static website. Follow the steps in "Populate with data" to provide Watchtower with data to display.

TODOS

• Allow edits
  • Update task assignations
  • Asset casting
• Snapshotting (to compare the state of the edit/tasks over time)

JSON files data source

Watchtower can run as a standalone application, and use JSON file as data source. In this case, here is how such data should be structured:

• context.json (top level data)
• static/projects (dir. contains a list of projects)
  • <project_uuid> (dir. contains project data)
    • assets.json
    • casting.json (dir. contains casting data for all sequences)
    • edit.json
    • edit.mp4 (a copy of the latest edit)
    • project.json
    • sequences.json
    • shots.json