Workflows in Media
~3 m
Workflows in Media
These range from low level device control of lens settings to high level lifecycle management of assets delivered direct to consumer.
This course is dedicated to giving you an introduction to workflow thinking. With many practical exercises and using tools that you’re likely to find or be given, we’ll work through some examples of workflow design, workflow debugging and how AI can be used to improve your performance instead of being just a buzz-word.
The course is the second part of the wonderful Broadcast Technical Assistants Skills Bootcamp that is a Free two-week training introducing you to the fundamentals of Broadcast Engineering and live production.
To sign up for the course, visit All Spring Media and click on the Go To Application button.
Pre-requisites
- You will need an email address that you can access during the course. This can be a burner email address from yahoo, gmail, outlook, protonmail or other established email suppliers
- You will need to create free accounts with services like ChatGPT, Perplexity.ai and others to try the tools
- You will need to create an account with https://mrmxf.com to progress through the online aspects of the course
What is a workflow
An exploration of different workflow types featuring:
- Role play of how an AI will interpret tasks
- Investigating the steps for generating a news / sports story on a news show
- Replicating those steps and using AI tools to create a story
- Looking at tools for archiving that story
AI background for Workflow
An exploration of what AI is and how it works & fails:
- Artificial Intelligence vs Machine Learning
- Large Language Models - what they are, how they work, how they fail
- AI Agents - what are they, how they work, how they fail
- Generative AI - what is it, how does it work?
- AI terminology - what you need to know
- Looking at tools for archiving that story
Business & Lifestyle workflow
To many emails? Need content in a different format? Want notifications from tools that don’t generate them?
- Workflow vs Automation - is there a difference?
- IFTTT & Zapier - make life easier
- Node-Red - it’s free, it’s powerful, it’s sometimes easy
- n8n, prismatic, roll-your own & good old claude-code
- Google opal - a game changer?
Visibility, observability & post-mortem
What to do when things go wrong - designing in visibility & observability
- Everything will eventually break - make a plan
- Some stories of mega-ooops. Crowdstrike, Reply-all oops, fragile filenames, shared drives live-on-air post-its on monitors etc.
- Think like a baddie - security start with line 1 of your plan, zero-trust
- red team / blue team speed dating - will your workflow survive your colleagues?
Putting it all together
Now your learning has matured, there will be a selection of challenges to choose from including:
- Low level workflow - using low level tools to make a device workflow
- QC workflow using Saas tools to perform captions QC
- Distribution workflows using
- Content workflow using AI
- Roll your own custom workflow with Node Red & claude code
- Axle.ai workflow using Connectr
Complete 2 or 3 of the challenges during the day, we’ll do a group presentation before lunch and a final one at the end of the day.
