Production Efficiency & Studio Move Consultant

Audit the current production operation

• Audit stages, homes, standing sets, props, wardrobe, art, lighting, camera, sound, facilities, storage, offices, and crew flow.
• Establish current production baselines and future KPIs, including shoot days per episode, reset time, stage utilization, cost per finished minute, crew flow, and bottlenecks.

Evaluate the new facility

• Recommend how stages, offices, production spaces, storage areas, department zones, shared infrastructure, and crew pathways should be configured.

Identify asset reuse and changes

• Identify which current sets, assets, equipment, workflows, and infrastructure should be reused, modified, rebuilt, retired, or replaced.

Assess emerging technologies

• Assess whether virtual production, green screen, LED walls, AI tools, game engines, pre-lighting, pre-rigging, or other emerging technologies could realistically make DMS faster, cheaper, or more creatively flexible.

Recommend production improvements

• Recommend stage layouts, standing set strategies, modular set systems, swing sets, redress systems, storage approaches, lighting infrastructure, camera packages, sound workflows, and other practical production improvements.

Build capital spend/ROI framework

• Create a capital spend/ROI framework so every major investment is tied to measurable efficiency, quality, or cost savings.

Pressure-test new technology and processes

• Pressure-test new technology, processes, and operating modes through practical pilots before major spend.

Translate recommendations into clear plans

• Translate recommendations into clear operating plans, diagrams, vendor scope recommendations, staffing implications, budget logic, decision frameworks, and implementation guidance for the Project Manager and internal teams.

Support art department

• Support the art department in creating many distinct looks without adding unnecessary complexity, cost, or reset time.

Coordinate with vendors and contractors

• Coordinate with vendors, contractors, department leads, and project-based resources as needed.

Document and communicate

• Create strategic documentation, operating principles, and handoff materials required for internal teams to execute and sustain the new operating model.