Services
The LABEL ELEMENT offers producers a variety of “à la carte” services that are fully flexible according to the needs of the latter or, conversely, full-service.
We work with a wide network of professionals: laboratories, mixing and dubbing studios, translators, artistic directors, creative agencies, graphic designers, editors, and other audio-visual professionals in France and in Europe.
You will find below a description of the services offered by ELEMENT.
01.
Agreements and Technical Appendices
When establishing the initial budget of an audiovisual programme, we control all information related to the technical elements contained in the contracts with the various partners. We thus work on behalf of the producers, to:
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- Analyze and negotiate the clauses and technical appendices of distribution and financing agreements at the beginning of the project
- Collaborate with post-production teams to estimate and financially adjust deliveries and integrate them into production budgets
02.
Deliveries
We support producers by supervising, producing and fully delivering the materials stipulated in the technical appendices of financing contracts and agreements, in compliance with the national and international standards and contractual deadlines.
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- Selection of technical industries
- Quote negotiation
- Full technical and artistic supervision of projects
- Subtitles in all languages: proofreading, attendance at simulations and recording sessions
- Dubbing in all languages
- DCP re-packaging
- PAD TV
- Supervision of trailer production
- Tracking material shipments to rights holders until acceptance
- Drafting of letters of access, which, upon acceptance of the material, complete the delivery of distribution and financing agreements
- Ensure compliance with regulations of the CNC (French National Center for Cinema), such as return transfer to photochemical medium, digital preservation, legal deposit, and compilation of files for certification, legal deposit, financial aid for subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing and audio description
- Support solutions for paper deliveries (administrative and legal documentation) and preservation of marketing elements
03.
Archiving & heritage
The digital environment has definitely changed how audiovisual master copies are stored and archived. While in the past, everything was left to the care of laboratories, digital files today require special attention and new methods to preserve the technical aspects of a film for the future. When considering both intellectual rights and work durability, the preservation contract becomes an essential step in the life and trajectory of a film asset.
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Long-term preservation requires a detailed and exact inventory of film heritage. This exact and geographical knowledge of the material makes it possible to safeguard it, no matter what is at stake: pledges, catalog repurchase, new broadcast, while taking into account migration, replication and reversibility requirements.
We collaborate with producers and audiovisual rights and catalog holders to:
- Establish a complete inventory of the materials based on the state of existing catalogs
- Selecting elements to be preserved by mutual agreement with the rights holders so that the work is protected for the future
- Researching and negotiating the best-suited archiving solution and draw up a contract
- The day-to-day legal and technical management of these archives
04.
Restoration
Enhancing or reselling a film or catalogue of films often requires image restoration and programme remastering, within strict budget and deadline constraints. We work along with producers, catalogue and audiovisual rights holders to supervise the revaluation of their works: restoring or remastering in current formats, with the necessary upgrades.
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We work along with producers, audio-visual rights holders and catalogues, to:
- Supervise the revaluation of their works: restoring or remastering in current formats, with the necessary upgrades
- Analyse distribution requests, research and negotiate the best restoration configuration with service providers, and support the establishment of funding aid applications
- Supervise the production and delivery of the new elements resulting from the restoration/mastering process
05.
Acquisitions
During audiovisual work acquisition or co-funding procedures, involving acceptance of contractual material, we can contribute at different levels:
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- Supervise the acquisition of the material, its verification, storage and archiving or its migration to the most suitable laboratory or service provider
- Coordinate the production of the elements required for distribution of the work acquired (cinema, video, VoD, TV, international sales)
06.
Management & certification
To support rights holders in a constantly-evolving dematerialized environment, the ELEMENT label is dedicated to consulting, management and follow-up of digital archiving in order to promote film assets and heritage in a long term approach of the work. Our priority is to make it available to our clients:
> see more
- A permanent interface throughout the life of the work, sustainable and operable between the rights holders on one side, and the geographical and technical location of the material and data sources on the other
- Support for catalogue transfers, facilitating the mobility of tangible assets (valuation and smooth transfers of ownership)
- Long-term monitoring certification issued for all economic partners involved in the physical ownership of the work and in guaranteeing its durable existence, including for the beneficiaries of pledges and other securities over the tangible assets (banking institutions, guaranteed financial partners, catalogue credit lines)
01.
Agreements and Technical Appendices
When establishing the initial budget of an audiovisual programme, we control all information related to the technical elements contained in the contracts with the various partners. We thus work on behalf of the producers, to:
> see more
- Analyze and negotiate the clauses and technical appendices of distribution and financing agreements at the beginning of the project
- Collaborate with post-production teams to estimate and financially adjust deliveries and integrate them into production budgets
02.
Deliveries
We support producers by supervising, producing and fully delivering the materials stipulated in the technical appendices of financing contracts and agreements, in compliance with the national and international standards and contractual deadlines.
> see more
- Selection of technical industries Quote negotiation
- Full technical and artistic supervision of projects
- Subtitles in all languages: proofreading, attendance at simulations and recording sessions
- Dubbing in all languages
- DCP re-packaging
- PAD TV
- Supervision of trailer production
- Tracking material shipments to rights holders until acceptance
- Drafting of letters of access, which, upon acceptance of the material, complete the delivery of distribution and financing agreements
- Ensure compliance with regulations of the CNC (French National Center for Cinema), such as return transfer to photochemical medium, digital preservation, legal deposit, and compilation of files for certification, legal deposit, financial aid for subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing and audio description
- Support solutions for paper deliveries (administrative and legal documentation) and preservation of marketing elements
03.
Archiving & heritage
The digital environment has definitely changed how audiovisual master copies are stored and archived. While in the past, everything was left to the care of laboratories, digital files today require special attention and new methods to preserve the technical aspects of a film for the future. When considering both intellectual rights and work durability, the preservation contract becomes an essential step in the life and trajectory of a film asset.
> see more
Long-term preservation requires a detailed and exact inventory of film heritage. This exact and geographical knowledge of the material makes it possible to safeguard it, no matter what is at stake: pledges, catalog repurchase, new broadcast, while taking into account migration, replication and reversibility requirements.
We collaborate with producers and audiovisual rights and catalog holders to:
- Establish a complete inventory of the materials based on the state of existing catalogs
- Selecting elements to be preserved by mutual agreement with the rights holders so that the work is protected for the future
- Researching and negotiating the best-suited archiving solution and draw up a contract
- The day-to-day legal and technical management of these archives
04.
Restoration
Enhancing or reselling a film or catalogue of films often requires image restoration and programme remastering, within strict budget and deadline constraints. We work along with producers, catalogue and audiovisual rights holders to supervise the revaluation of their works: restoring or remastering in current formats, with the necessary upgrades.
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We work along with producers, audio-visual rights holders and catalogues, to:
- Supervise the revaluation of their works: restoring or remastering in current formats, with the necessary upgrades
- Analyse distribution requests, research and negotiate the best restoration configuration with service providers, and support the establishment of funding aid applications
- Supervise the production and delivery of the new elements resulting from the restoration/mastering process
05.
Acquisitions
During audiovisual work acquisition or co-funding procedures, involving acceptance of contractual material, we can contribute at different levels:
> see more
- Supervise the acquisition of the material, its verification, storage and archiving or its migration to the most suitable laboratory or service provider
- Coordinate the production of the elements required for distribution of the work acquired (cinema, video, VoD, TV, international sales)
06.
Management & certification
To support rights holders in a constantly-evolving dematerialized environment, the ELEMENT label is dedicated to consulting, management and follow-up of digital archiving in order to promote film assets and heritage in a long term approach of the work. Our priority is to make it available to our clients:
> see more
- A permanent interface throughout the life of the work, sustainable and operable between the rights holders on one side, and the geographical and technical location of the material and data sources on the other
- Support for catalogue transfers, facilitating the mobility of tangible assets (valuation and smooth transfers of ownership)
- Long-term monitoring certification issued for all economic partners involved in the physical ownership of the work and in guaranteeing its durable existence, including for the beneficiaries of pledges and other securities over the tangible assets (banking institutions, guaranteed financial partners, catalogue credit lines)