TheiAssist software system - Immersive engagement for film students

TheiAssist is a new iteration of software that I developed for the immersive education of film students. It features a standardized script evaluation form that modifies virtual budgets allocated to students for the production of their original work. Students have bank accounts and pay each other guild rates for working on their films. They access equipment through the software which also charges day rates based on rental house research. There is also a head shot database for casting student productions with short monologue audition clips attached. The software also guides and tracks students through their productions and frames faculty and student interactions to mimic industry standards, while governing the flow of equipment checkouts, check-ins and faculty approvals. This system preserves project histories, including script revisions to aid in assessment and provide exemplars. Soon the system will be linked to completed projects, so that student payment histories will include production credits that are linkable to the finished work. Consequently students may search for crews and cast and see past work as an indication of appropriateness for a given job, making collaborations more rational and less social/relational. This increases the potential for unexpected collaborations which may yield more interesting work, and helps to lance the development of exclusive cliques. The software renders transparent the production process and all of the work going on in the school. This should allow for more crew hires across disciplines and academic levels so that peer mentoring raises the work across the program.