What is Jason talking about?

Why does it feel sometimes like the way we make television is stuck in 2008?

Maybe it’s because the way we make television is stuck in 2008.

I love building user-friendly interfaces to bring our processes into the modern age. This looks differently for every production, but some of what I’ve been able to accomplish:

• Implement easy to use input forms for field producers. Rather than typing up a bunch of inscrutable thoughts into dozens of separate Google Docs, put it into a form so that information is indexable and organizable in a way that everyone can follow!

• Build dashboards so everyone is on the same page. Now that our data from the field is easy to deal with, I build customized web apps that allow producers and editors to find what they need fast. Gone are the days of searching through folders for notes documents. Say goodbye to hours of building network grids. It’s all where you need it when you need it!

• Automate where it makes sense. Network deliverables now happen at the push of a button. Grids make themselves. Notes live where they belong. It just all happens.

The future of the television shows that matter will not going to be AI generated slop. I avoid AI tools wherever possible. But even if we’re not going to sell our soulds to ChatGPT, we should at least move on to making computers work for us on the boring stuff and get to the creaing that much faster!

Thank you reading my manifesto, now go tell a human you love them.