SmartShoot Producer's Blogg

New & Improved: Job Detail Pages & Custom Job Offers

We just released some new tools and improvements to the marketplace. Many of these changes were inspired by your feedback so please keep the ideas and suggestions coming – what’s working for you and what’s not . . .

The job detail pages have a new look and feel to help you more easily complete projects. The pages more clearly indicate next steps and call out the specifics for the projects. Let us know - how can we make these even easier for you. 

On the custom job front, we improved the geographic matching to better match jobs with local creatives, improved the public comments interface to display the role (customer or creative) of who is talking and made it easier for customers to manage their open job requests, including the sorting and hiding of pitches. 

Lots more improvements in the pipeline so please keep the feedback coming – feedback@smartshoot.com

Thanks

The SmartShoot Team

We're bringing you more jobs and changing our name to SmartShoot

Launching this Wednesday is our enhanced job market platform. In addition to the jobs we get from our partners (Yelp, Seamless, etc.), we will allow customers to deliver custom job request for any kind of photo or video job directly to you, enabling you to pitch for any of these custom jobs that you want. Customers select a creative based on your pitch, job history and price. You collaborate directly with the customer and upload deliverables through the platform and we transfer payment (minus our commission) from customer to you.

Also this Wednesday, TurnHere becomes SmartShoot, a name which better reflects our mission of bringing professional photos and videos to consumers and marketers by connecting them with the world's best filmmakers and photographers.

We'll use the name SmartShoot in place of TurnHere in almost everything we do - be sure to add team@smartshoot.com to your address box so that job alerts don't go to your spam filter - and please use the name SmartShoot when identifying yourself to customers we send you.

Your feedback on the process and how we can improve it as we work to create a vibrant and fair marketplace for creative talent is extraordinarily helpful so please let us know what's working, what's not and your ideas for making it better.

 

 

 

 

Haven Brothers: Legacy of the American Diner

One of our filmmakers has been in the process of putting together a documentary film he has been working on for the past 2 years. He has a new kickstarter campaign to raise funding. We wanted to show our support and help get the word out for his success!

His film is about Haven Brothers Diner in Providence, RI. It is the oldest operating diner on wheels, right in the birthplace of the American diner. Take a look at his trailer below, and if you feel inclined you can show support on Kickstarter.

 

 

 

Good luck Jeff!

"Everyday Sunshine" - New Documentary from TH Filmmaker Chris M

"Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone" - documentary trailer from Tilapia Film on Vimeo.

 

If you're in or around the San Francisco Bay Area this month we highly recommend checking out "Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone" -- this documentary was directed by TurnHere filmmaker Chris Metzler. 

The film follows the career of Fishbone; probably the most eclectic and unique alternative rock bands of the late '80s. Judging from the trailer this looks to be one rocking documentary - includes interviews with the likes of Flea, No Doubt and George Clinton.

"Everyday Sunshine: The Story of Fishbone" will be playing at the Roxie Theater in S.F. from 1/6-1/12.

Congratulations on the release Chris and the great work on the film