I'm an independent producer interested in outsourcing some of the
support work often handled (poorly) by an intern or (expensively) by
an assistant.  I am very happy to consider offshore companies (e.g.
Your Man In India) Please recommend the best/cheapest company to
handle the following work:

- locating footage based on television transcripts
- finding/reviewing/drafting basic legal documents related to
licensing footage and music rights
- researching interview subjects and other people featured in films
- publicity support (finding reviewers, issuing press releases, etc.)

Thanks

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Request for Question Clarification by muhammad-ga on 25 Aug 2005 05:38 PDT

Hello!

I am interested in your question and would like to embark on the
research journey, but before that, I would like to draw your attention
to the pricing of questions. Your question would require me about 3-4
days to complete, after I get the clarifications listed below. Please
see http://answers.google.com/answers/pricing.html for ?How to Price
your question??

Outsourcing to India does not need any introduction since it has
become the de facto modus operandi for all businesses looking for
cutting costs. Movie outsourcing is the latest trend in this segment.
Animation is one major field of Films? outsourcing which is catching
up fast, with biggies like Walt Disney, Imax, Warner Brothers and Sony
sourcing their animation work to Hyderabad, Bangalore and
Mumbai(Bombay).

CLAFIFICATION NEEDED ON
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I need to know few things about your question to narrow down the
search. Ideally, my approach of researching this question would be to
get a list of some prospective companies & people from web search and
local yellow pages search here in Mumbai, where I am based, and also
from my personal knowledge of Media businesses of India, and then
communicating with each prospective service provider regarding your
specific query, and subsequently providing you with the list.

1. What are you looking to outsource and what is the quantum of the
work to be outsourced?
There are hundreds, if not thousands, companies in the outsourcing
business mostly doing business in various verticals such as  contact
centers, back-office data processing, financial data processing, email
management, customer support, technical support etc. What is the
nature of support work that you are looking to outsource? A
clarification to this will help

2.  Please elaborate on ?locating footage based on television
transcripts?. Are you looking for companies which hold the copyrights
to TV transcripts or Stock photography companies or libraries where
you can get the footage?

3. Regarding ?finding/reviewing/drafting basic legal documents?, are
you looking for a law firm to do this or online information about Laws
about footage? One more clarification, I like to know is whether you
are interested in TV or movies or both?

Please post your reply to above questions and kindly review the
pricing to help me provide you with relevant information.

I wish you all the best in your outsourcing-to-India plans.

Regards,
muhammad-ga

Hi, I am from New Delhi, India. I can help you get your job done from
here. I would need a some more details on the types of work and their
related billing that you are willing to pay.

Hello, My only suggestion to you select small and expertise in firm ,
Who can give you best results in the the Low cost. If you like i can
give you list of small company who like to work with you.

I am new in the Google Answer, How can i send you List of company?

Ms. Sunita