Importance of Media Management

Managing your media is very important because you need to be able to easily see and access the files you need quickly and efficiently. Making sure that they are organised and filed correctly, will help with the overall process of creating or editing a film. For example you would be able to clearly see where certain files/clips are saved, and that way you would know where everything is. Managing your files will also decrease the chances of losing important documents or clips, as you would know where you had originally saved them. This is because you have organised your sound, footage, soundtrack, etc in the correct separate files, so it is easy to find the specific elements of a film or project.

Here is a link to a behind the scenes video of 'Gone Girl' which shows the importance of media management. In the video, it shows you that more than one person is working on the editing process, at the same time as the actual scenes are being filmed, which saves a lot of time.