Photo and video collaboration platform

A system for creatively directing a video collection campaign, the system comprising:

• a server-based software application comprising:
• a web-interface executed on a computing device, comprising a graphical user interface configured to allow a curator to:
• establish the campaign by:
• automatically authorizing one or more individuals each having image capture devices as remote contributors to contribute videos to the campaign based upon the one or more individuals and their respective image capture devices meeting one or more pre-determined criteria,
• setting up the campaign to automatically begin for the one or more individuals and their respective image capture devices having met the one or more pre-determined criteria based upon the meeting of the one or more pre-determined criteria;
• and
• creating a list of shot templates for desired videos for collection through the campaign,
• the web interface-further configured to generate a push notification indicating to the one or more individuals that the one or more individuals has been automatically authorized to contribute to the campaign from the graphical user interface, and
• the server-based software application further configured to send the push notification to the one or more image capture devices of the one or more of the remote contributors;
• and
• a downloadable software application executed on the one or more image capture devices configured to receive the push notification on the image capture device.

A non-transitory, tangible computer readable storage medium, encoded with processor readable instructions to perform a method for creatively directing a video collection campaign the method comprising:

• establishing the campaign via a graphical user interface of a computing device by:
• automatically authorizing one or more individuals each having image capture devices as remote contributors to contribute videos to the campaign based upon the one or more individuals and their respective image capture devices meeting one or more pre-determined criteria;
• setting up the campaign to automatically begin for the one or more individuals and their respective image capture devices having met the one or more pre-determined criteria based upon the meeting of the one or more pre-determined criteria;
• and
• creating, via the graphical user interface of the computing device, a list of shot templates for desired videos for collection through the campaign,
• generating a notification indicating to the one or more individuals that the one or more individuals has been automatically authorized to contribute to the campaign from the graphical user interface, and;
• sending the notification through a remote server to one or more of the image capture devices of one or more remote contributors.