Although the survey sample is made of 11 professionals only, I tried to apply it to people with different specializations who have worked in small, medium, and large productions. For example, the production company "Dynamo Producciones" is the largest in Colombia and has a close relationship with Netflix, frequently producing content for this streaming platform. There's also "Mr Woo", a Mexican production company that produced "The House of Flowers", among others. At the same time, there are also startups and medium-sized companies that either work with clients or make their own productions.

The biggest takeaway that I drew from the survey is that the very same issue I encountered both as a film student and later on as a young professional also exists in the many branches of the audiovisual industry: workflows are completely fragmented due to the lack of a platform that facilitates collaboration and provides the right tools. Most of them rely on Google Drive to store files, which in theory shouldn't be an issue, but Google Drive makes managing files really difficult when many people are collaborating and there are tons of documents that are hard to be found in a very organized manner.

Linked to that issue is the fact that, as reflected by the respondents, traditional software is still used for most of the documents: Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets are still the norm for budgeting and databases; Microsoft Word and Google Docs for general documents that mostly involve word processing but also image attachments; Adobe Photoshop for graphic tasks like storyboards; Final Draft for scripts and even chat groups or e-mails for most communications involving documents, including directories.

Another thing that became clear was that although there are templates out there to follow, each company and project needs certain adjustments that accommodate the nature of the work and therefore they are always changing. Yet, according to the responses, the standardization of many aspects is still needed and wanted, but since the creation of documents is behind in terms of practical tools (still relying on Word or Sheets, with alternatives being too complex) and collaboration (because of the lack or disregard of some platforms), it's difficult to develop a consensus that provides intuitive use.

As described by them, it is also evident that the film industry is full of collaboration on many levels and a film can have a big group to sustain it, with the constant addition of external collaborators. Documents are created by a few or many, and then shared with plenty of the members of the production group (unless there are legal and financial documents that can't be disclosed). The film industry is pretty similar to other industries, like the design industry and other agencies - or even tech companies -; but where it tends to differ is in the amount of diversity in terms of types of documents (which mix creativity and formality), the backgrounds of people involved in the teams, and the changing nature of the members involved from project to project, whether simultaneously or consequentially.

Finally, it's important to highlight that those surveyed have stated that they would find it useful to have a platform that gives them what they need without the extra complications of confusing documents and cumbersome interfaces that try to emulate the physical management of data. There is also a consensus that there needs to be an accessible price and good availability to large, medium, and small projects and/or teams. This would save time, provide organized work, reduce confusing tools, and make way for true collaboration, just like face to face meetings or the actual shooting process.