Building a Sustainable Media Management Workflow

Master Your Media (Virtual)

December 1, 2026 | Online 6:00-9:00pm EST

A Zoom link will be shared via email 24 hours in advance

ABOUT THIS WORKSHOP

Documentary projects can generate years of footage across different cameras, drives, locations, and collaborators. Without a clear system, media can quickly become difficult to track, back up, share, and hand off.

This workshop teaches documentary filmmakers how to build a clean, sustainable organizational structure for their projects. We’ll cover folder and drive organization, naming conventions, camera originals, audio, proxies, project files, working media, exports, backups and checksum verification, as well as how to keep the system clear when working with different editing platforms and collaborators.

Intended audience: Beginner to intermediate documentary filmmakers, especially those working independently or in small teams and managing their own media and post-production.

Key learning outcomes: Participants will learn how to organize a documentary from the start, safely manage and back up original media, understand where proxies and other working files belong, create consistent naming and folder conventions, and build a structure that remains easy to navigate, relink, share, and hand off as the project grows.

The session will combine instruction, real-world examples, and a hands-on exercise where participants build or evaluate an organizational structure for a documentary project.

TEACHING ARTIST: Diana Corgam

Diana Corgam is a San Francisco–based colorist, filmmaker, and educator working across narrative, documentary, and branded projects. With a background spanning cinematography, editing, color, and finishing, she brings a practical, end-to-end understanding of how media moves through post-production. Her work emphasizes robust media management, project organization, backup and archival practices, and workflows designed to keep complex productions secure and manageable from ingest through delivery. She teaches DaVinci Resolve, color grading, and post-production workflows, helping filmmakers build professional systems that support both the creative and technical demands of their work.

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