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Massif — Location database and collaboration workspace for production teams

Bringing the work behind every filming location into one workspace

Massif — Location database and collaboration workspace for production teams

Location managers and scouts spend years building an archive of photos, notes, permits, and contacts. Each new production should benefit from that work. But with material scattered across Dropbox folders, SmugMug galleries, email threads, and presentation decks, even finding what already exists can be a challenge.

Teams rebuild location selections for each project, while feedback is scattered across calls, chats, and PDFs. Past scouting work becomes difficult to reuse, and decisions become difficult to track.

Working with Massif’s founding team — producers, location managers, and engineers building from firsthand industry experience — we designed a platform around how location work actually happens:

  • A private database that keeps location material organized and reusable
  • Natural-language search to find relevant images across the archive
  • Tools to quickly turn locations into presentation-ready selections
  • A shared workspace for shortlisting, commenting, and deciding together

The result was one connected workflow, from finding locations to deciding together — a vision that brought four production companies on board as development partners ahead of launch.

What we did
Understanding the location work
We talked with location managers, scouts, and producers to understand how they work today and where the process breaks down
Product definition
We reframed the product around a clear need: a shared workspace that connects a team’s location database with how they find, present, and review locations
Product design and prototyping
We designed and prototyped the core workflows for each role, from location managers organizing their archives to producers and directors reviewing selections
Concept validation
We tested the concept with more than 50 producers and 20 location scouts, confirming demand for the platform
Location database
Photos, videos, contacts, notes, and permit details — all connected to the location they belong to. We designed a private database that brings scattered material together and makes past scouting work easier to reuse.
Massif — Location database and collaboration workspace for production teams
Search the way you think
“The white villa with blue doors from last summer’s shoot.” We designed a search experience that lets teams describe what they remember — or what they’re looking for — and find relevant images across their archive in seconds.
Massif — Location database and collaboration workspace for production teams
Massif — Location database and collaboration workspace for production teams
Massif — Location database and collaboration workspace for production teams
From feedback to final choice
We brought comments, votes, and shortlists into the workspace, keeping feedback attached to each location. Location managers, producers, and directors can review options together and keep track of decisions.
Massif — Location database and collaboration workspace for production teams
Massif — Location database and collaboration workspace for production teams
Massif — Location database and collaboration workspace for production teams
Client-ready in minutes
Turn existing location material into presentation-ready selections in minutes. Teams can build on past scouting work for each new project, without pulling files from folders and rebuilding decks.
Massif — Location database and collaboration workspace for production teams
Massif — Location database and collaboration workspace for production teams
A clear introduction
We shaped the homepage around the journey from organizing location material to choosing locations together. Production teams can recognize their own process at every step — and see how Massif makes it easier.
Massif — Location database and collaboration workspace for production teams
QUOTE
“It has been great working with Resonate. From product design to market research, their precision and attention to detail stood out. Backed by a team that's genuinely dedicated to getting it right I look forward to continue our work together.”

Lilja Ósk Diðriksdóttir, CEO

Massif
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