The full monty

843
things Stoodiohub does.

We tried to make this page short. We failed. Here is every single feature, live today, in 32 departments. Scroll until your thumb hurts, or just ask:

…and 142 more already on our to-do list, with new ideas arriving every week from real conversations with film-makers, crews, schools and producers.

Script & drafts

35

Drop in a script. Get a production back

  • Import a screenplay PDF
  • Fountain (.fountain) scripts read exactly
  • Final Draft (.fdx) scripts read exactly
  • Import a script straight from Google Drive or a Google Doc
  • Type scenes in by number and heading when there's no script yet
  • Scene numbers, headings, INT/EXT and day/night read for you
  • Every scene's length worked out in eighths of a page
  • Characters found from the dialogue cues
  • V.O., O.S. and CONT'D stripped from character names
  • Preview every scene before anything is imported
  • Unnumbered headings flagged before you import
  • New drafts matched to scenes by what each scene says
  • Renumbered, split, merged and cut scenes spotted in a new draft
  • Change any scene pairing before a new draft goes in
  • Cut scenes archived, kept as they are, or merged into another
  • Renamed characters keep their old name as an alias
  • Characters no longer in a scene offered for removal
  • Draft colours: white, blue, pink, yellow, green, goldenrod and on
  • The next draft colour picked for you
  • Shots, props, pictures and schedule stay with scenes across drafts
  • Each scene says which draft last changed it
  • Read the whole script on screen
  • Each scene's own lines on its page
  • Highlight words in the script and leave a note on them
  • Script notes for a department, a person or everyone
  • Producers-only private script notes
  • Reply to and resolve script notes
  • Script notes by department, with a For me filter
  • Notes follow their words into the next draft
  • Notes flagged when their passage has changed
  • Export the draft as Fountain or Final Draft with scene numbers
  • Download the latest script PDF
  • Older scripts handled: camera directions, wrapped headings
  • Sample script in Fountain and Final Draft to learn the layout
  • Every scene at its own web address, by its number

Breakdown & storyboards

26

Every scene broken down before you've had a coffee

  • Scene list CSV with cast, place, props, VFX and schedule
  • Scene breakdown PDF as one landscape table
  • Industry-layout breakdown sheets, one page per scene
  • Breakdown sheet header in stripboard colours
  • Breakdown check finds characters named only in the action
  • Breakdown check suggests places for unplaced scenes
  • Hide a breakdown suggestion, undo it, or bring it back later
  • Flag a scene that takes longer than its pages
  • Plan a scene as more pages for a fight, crowd, animal or child
  • Fight, chase and stunt scenes spotted and offered more time
  • Mark a scene Filming, VFX only, Pick-up later or Cut
  • Split a scene into parts (7A, 7B…) for different places
  • Each part gets its own place, cast, slot and share of pages
  • Scene nicknames beside the number everywhere
  • Tags on scenes, one at a time or in bulk
  • AI scene pictures (with your own Gemini key)
  • Edit a scene picture's description without touching the script
  • Every AI picture asks first and shows the cost
  • Monthly cap on AI pictures
  • Flag a scene as fully CGI
  • AI storyboard frames per shot (with your own Gemini key)
  • Upload a drawn storyboard frame, or copy a prompt for one
  • Storyboard frames use location and costume photos as references
  • Storyboards page with every frame in script order
  • Storyboard PDFs per scene, per shoot day and for the film
  • A what's-next checklist for production before the first call sheet

Schedule & stripboard

42

The 1st AD's board, minus the cardboard

  • Import a schedule CSV, columns matched by name
  • Import the 1st AD's PDF schedule, day by day
  • HOLD, TBC and OMIT flags kept from the PDF
  • Preview what each schedule row keeps, adds or archives
  • Re-imports merge by scene and keep hand-edited times
  • Scene parts like 26A–26J made for you on import
  • Add shoot days on a calendar
  • Warning before removing a day that already has work on it
  • Drag slots on the day's timeline to re-time them
  • Cast calls follow when a slot moves
  • Fill untimed days: sunrise call, sunset wrap, three meals
  • Put untimed scenes on the timeline around the timed ones
  • Stripboard with one strip per scene
  • Strips coloured by INT/EXT and day/night, industry style
  • Drag strips between days or up and down a day
  • Move to… list for strips on a phone
  • Pages, scenes and cast totals per day
  • Short turnaround warnings under 11 hours
  • Company move warnings per day
  • Child-performer-working warnings per day
  • Day out of days table (SW, W, WF, SWF, H)
  • Automatic day planner drafts the schedule for you
  • Set the target pages a day for the planner
  • Try six schedule variations in one tap
  • Planner keeps actors off their days off
  • Planner keeps company moves and actors' hold days down
  • Planner keeps day exteriors before night ones
  • Compare every draft with the live schedule side by side
  • Open, tweak, copy, name and annotate schedule drafts
  • Lock a draft in as the schedule
  • Leave chosen scenes out of the planning
  • Blocks for long shoots, by place or by tag
  • Hand-pick scenes into or out of a block
  • Block picker on the stripboard and the schedule
  • Plan just one block between two dates
  • A week at a time view of the stripboard
  • Scenes no longer in the script flagged in red
  • Several units on one day
  • A 2nd unit with its own place, call, wrap, base and crew
  • Move a slot to another unit and its scenes and cast go too
  • Schedule version printed on the call sheet
  • Planned vs actual CSV per day and per slot

Locations & map

36

Every pin, path and parking space, sorted

  • Map of every filming location and point of interest
  • Add a pin by standing on it with GPS
  • Add a pin by tapping the map or searching for it
  • Same-place check for pins within 25 m
  • Pins only move after you press Move
  • Street, satellite and OS footpath map layers
  • Search the film's pins as you type, even with no signal
  • Search any village, address or postcode
  • Coloured map areas: unit base, parking, welfare, no-go
  • Drone flight areas drawn on the map
  • Pin colours for option, confirmed, alt, rejected and shot
  • Filter pins by status, shoot day, department or character
  • Today, not shot filter for the 1st AD
  • Sun direction at each slot's start time
  • Real walk and drive times from the unit base
  • Water & snacks flag on far-off pins
  • Arrows at the map's edge point to off-screen A&E and fuel
  • Several places per film, each with its own unit base
  • Nearest A&E found for you
  • Nearest police station, pharmacy and fuel found for you
  • Vet added to nearby places if there are animals
  • Found-for-you pins wait for someone to check them
  • Swap to one of the four nearest alternatives
  • Place checklist for parking, toilets, first aid and muster point
  • Weather and sun for each place
  • QR code for every location
  • Each department's own notes on every pin
  • Location photos, queued when there's no signal
  • Sets with no map position for studio builds and ships
  • Floor plans per floor, from a picture or a PDF
  • Draw rooms, camera positions, kit and no-go on a plan
  • Actors' marks and moves on a floor plan, per scene
  • Print a floor plan with numbered marks and a key
  • The day's floor plans PDF, a page per scene
  • Call sheet names the set inside a location
  • Download a place's map tiles for offline use

Recces & location management

27

Scout it, sign it off, keep the owner sweet

  • Location management: owner, permission, fee, access, power
  • Permission tracked: asked, agreed, refused, not needed
  • Parking spaces, toilets and restrictions per location
  • Location fee shown to producers only
  • Owner's contact details encrypted
  • Owner log of calls, emails, visits and promises
  • Owner promises carried into the location release
  • Missing permission flagged before each shoot day
  • Site visits (recces) with a meeting point and stops
  • Recce route in driving order with arrival times
  • Recce route sketch plus Open in Google Maps
  • Invite people, whole departments or outside guests to a recce
  • Recce invites pushed to phones
  • I'm coming or Can't for a recce, even with no signal
  • Recce checklists per department, edited by the heads
  • Recce checklists filled in offline
  • Rough noise-level reading from the phone's mic
  • Record the phone signal at a location
  • See where the sun will be at the scheduled times
  • Hazards ticked on a recce go straight into the risk assessment
  • Score each place 1–5 on a recce
  • Recce actions become tasks for a department
  • Recce photos keep the time they were taken
  • Compare candidate places for a scene side by side
  • Director and producer both pick a place to confirm it
  • Recce pack PDF per visit or per place
  • Owner's copy of the recce pack with private notes left out

Risk assessments

24

The 1st AD's biggest chore, mostly done for you

  • A risk assessment per place, per scene and per day
  • The place's assessment is the master for every scene there
  • Scenes store only their changes: hide, re-score or add
  • A scene with no changes is covered by its place's approval
  • Hazards suggested from the scene, its props and its conditions
  • Suggested hazards for weapons, drones and night exteriors
  • Suggested hazards for fire, smoke, wet ground and weather
  • Suggested hazards for fights, animals, crowds and rigs
  • Suggested hazards for under-18s and long days
  • Suggested hazards when A&E is 30+ minutes away
  • Hazard library of 29 hazards with standard controls
  • 5×5 likelihood × severity scoring, banded low to very high
  • Who's responsible and further controls for every hazard
  • Sign as prepared, then a producer approves
  • Each approval saved as a versioned PDF
  • DRAFT watermark until approved
  • Approved assessments filed in Paperwork automatically
  • A scene flagged when its place's assessment changes
  • Crew tick I've read it on My day, even offline
  • See who has read each assessment
  • Day assessment PDF carries every scheduled scene's
  • Unapproved assessments flagged before each shoot day
  • Insurance pack PDF: policy, places, schedule, every assessment
  • Risk summary on the detailed call sheet

Call sheets

35

Sent, opened, Got it. No WhatsApp chasing

  • Call sheet PDF built from the schedule and breakdown
  • Email everyone the call sheet in one tap
  • Tap Got it to acknowledge the call sheet
  • See sent, opened and acknowledged for each person
  • Chase only the people who haven't said Got it
  • Phone alert when a new call sheet version is out
  • Share-to-WhatsApp line for the day
  • Crew marked Off that day aren't sent it
  • Versioned call sheets, each kept exactly as sent
  • Emailed call sheets have phone numbers stripped
  • Sends to a whole crew in the background, even on a hotspot
  • Weather, sunrise and sunset on the call sheet
  • Nearest A&E with its drive time on the call sheet
  • Emergency numbers for the country on the sheet
  • Nearest police, pharmacy, fuel and vet on the sheet
  • Production logo, key contacts and safety notes
  • Weapons lines under the slots that use them
  • Music on screen and playback lines
  • VFX shots today line
  • Cast with numbers, pick-up, call and on-set times
  • Child performers and their chaperones on the sheet
  • Background, equipment and crew calls
  • Crew list by department or by call time
  • Each crew member's radio number on the crew list
  • Four layouts: UK one-pager, detailed, indie compact, night
  • Turn call sheet sections on or off and reorder them
  • Pick the columns of the scene and cast tables
  • A4 or US Letter, portrait or landscape, text size
  • QR code to directions to the hospital
  • Advance schedule for the next shoot day
  • Live preview of the call sheet layout
  • One call sheet per unit, or every unit in one PDF
  • Everyone gets their own unit's call sheet
  • Extra lines and safety notes on every call sheet
  • Send a call sheet to Google Drive

My day

14

Your day, your call, your scenes. Nobody else's

  • Nothing shown to crew until the call sheet is released
  • My day: your call, your scenes and your pins
  • Walk times and Navigate links to every location
  • Parking, muster, toilets, first aid and hospital on My day
  • Cast see only their own scenes
  • My day trims itself to your job
  • Visitors get a simple essentials view
  • Your own call shown when it differs from the unit's
  • Sides PDF for the day
  • Sides button on every scene
  • Principals get the whole script, background get their sides
  • What people see: show or hide each box per group or person
  • Hide menu items per group or person
  • Each person's call sheet copy shows only their sections

On set

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The whole set, live, on every phone

  • Live board of where every actor is
  • Actor statuses: arrived, in make-up, in costume, ready, on set
  • Running late and Can't find flags
  • Actors can say I'm here, running late or on my way
  • Animals and background groups on the board too
  • Prop statuses from being prepped to on set, or missing
  • Each department ticks itself ready for the next slot
  • All ready alert when the whole slot is good to go
  • Full-screen board for the 1st AD's tablet
  • Board refreshes itself every 15 seconds
  • Phone alerts when an actor is ready, travelling or late
  • Actual start, end and outcome for every slot
  • First shot, lunch and wrap logged
  • Wrap summary: shots got and slips against the plan
  • Each department's to-do list for the day
  • Who's in when roster: in, half day, standby, visiting, off
  • Own call and wrap per person per day
  • Reasons for days off: sick, holiday, travel, released early
  • Set a whole week for many people at once
  • Short rest before a call flagged on the roster
  • Visitors grouped by organisation, with a safety induction tick
  • Visitors listed on their day's call sheet
  • Sign yourself in and out on your phone
  • Sign-in tablet with big name buttons
  • Sign in by scanning a printed QR code
  • On site today register: who's expected, in and gone
  • Live fire roll call of everyone on site
  • Every sign in and out kept, with how and by whom
  • Alarm when someone isn't in after their call
  • Alarm when someone's still signed in after wrap
  • Timesheets with paid hours, overtime and rest
  • Unpaid lunch taken off timesheets automatically
  • Timesheets as a payroll CSV or a PDF
  • Lanyard name cards, 8 or 10 to an A4 page
  • Crew, cast and visitor colour bands on lanyards
  • Controlled props signed out to actors and back in
  • Alert at lunch and wrap if a weapon is still out
  • Drone wind warning from the day's forecast
  • Tablet screens for sign-in, runners and the kitchen

Shots, takes & continuity

27

Every take logged, even with no bars

  • Shot list per scene
  • Shot names given automatically (7A, 7B…), skipping I and O
  • Shot names frozen once slated
  • Only a producer can correct a slated name, with a reason
  • Full shot form: framing, lens, move, rig, camera, FPS, MOS
  • Shot list for the whole film in script order
  • Drag shots to reorder; unshot names follow
  • Happy-to-miss shots listed but never counted
  • Outcome per shot: got it, not got or dropped
  • Reason, best take, note and continuity note per shot
  • Add a shot on set, even offline
  • Shots added offline flagged for details later
  • Take log for the script supervisor, on a phone or tablet
  • Next take with a running clock and a Cut button
  • Take length timed or typed
  • Quick tags: Flub, NG sound, NG camera, Line change, Good end
  • ★ Preferred take marks the shot got
  • No-good reasons: focus, performance, sound, boom in shot
  • Camera card, clip, sound file and timecode per take
  • Director and 1st AD add their own notes to takes
  • Two phones logging one shot never clash take numbers
  • Shot log PDF and CSV per day
  • Continuity photos straight from the phone camera
  • Continuity side by side with the signed-off reference
  • Pinch-zoom each continuity photo on its own
  • Continuity compare works offline once loaded
  • Continuity photos upload with a progress ring

Camera, sound & lighting

27

Setups, mics and lamps, logged once

  • Camera, Sound and Lighting cards on every scene
  • Reusable camera setups: body, lens, rig, ISO, shutter, ND
  • Reusable lighting rigs and sound setups
  • Change a setup and the shots still to get follow
  • Finished shots keep exactly what they were shot with
  • ISO, white balance, shutter and ND logged on the day
  • Lighting log per shot: fixture, position, modifier
  • Colour temperature, intensity and gel for every light
  • Fixtures offered from the lighting kit list
  • Copy the last setup's lights in one tap
  • Lighting log works offline
  • Lighting reference stills per scene
  • How many of the day's shots have their lights logged
  • Mic plan per day: a radio mic and track for each actor
  • Change the mics for a single scene
  • Mic placement: chest, collar, hairline and more
  • Mic status from planned to fitted to de-rigged
  • Batteries-in time per mic, amber after four hours
  • Batteries reminder an hour before crew call
  • De-rig and charge reminder for mics at wrap
  • Boom operator per day, or per shot
  • Sound list of atmos and wild tracks per scene
  • Sound notes per scene
  • Sound log to match a pickup
  • Whose voice is on each track printed on the shot log
  • Drone wind limit and paperwork kept on Camera's page
  • Tech specs: aspect ratio, frame rate, resolution, codec

Costume, hair & make-up

24

The continuity bible, minus the ring binder

  • Costume looks per character, picked scene by scene
  • Hair and make-up looks kept separately
  • Every character has a Default look
  • Looks go Design, Sourcing, Build, Fitting, Sign-off
  • Source each look: own, stock, hired, made or mixed
  • Reference photo sessions, dated and numbered
  • Angles: front, three-quarter, left, right, back, face, details
  • Add the film's own angles, like hands or a tattoo
  • Tap-to-take tiles for each angle
  • Start a new session from a previous one
  • Producer signs off reference photos or asks for changes
  • Waiting for sign-off card for producers
  • Session history grid for every look
  • Make a new look from a session
  • Costume bible day by day and by character
  • Look not chosen flagged in amber
  • Dressed, Done, Repair and Note per character per day
  • Repairs-to-do list
  • Wardrobe notes work offline
  • Actor's height, weight, hair and eyes from their profile
  • Cast sheet PDF with looks, stats and props
  • Actors see their look's photo on My day
  • Background group members dress from the group's look
  • Costume and HMU kit can name the character it's for

Art, props & set

14

Every prop, every scene, every armourer

  • Props and set dressing list
  • Tie a prop to many scenes, a location and a character
  • Prop status: to do, sourced, on set, done
  • Ready count per shoot day
  • Props that always go with a character
  • Reference pictures and video up to 60 MB each
  • Bigger videos attached as Drive links
  • Search the film's props before adding a new one
  • Controlled props for weapons and valuables
  • Weapon types: replica, blank-firing, bladed, soft
  • Armourer and safety note per weapon
  • Full custody trail for every controlled prop
  • WEAPONS row on the call sheet
  • Set & conditions per scene: rain, smoke, low light

VFX

19

Previs to final, nothing falls through

  • VFX assets list with status, scenes and references
  • VFX shot list made from shots flagged in the shot list
  • VFX-only scenes get their own VFX shot
  • VFX toggle and note on every shot of a scene
  • VFX shot IDs built from film, scene and shot
  • VFX shot IDs locked once a plate is shot
  • Work types: comp, roto, paint-out, set extension, CG and more
  • Complexity, assignee or vendor, and due date
  • Status from not started through previs to final
  • Previs pictures and video
  • Choose plates, clean plates and reference takes
  • Comp to another shot, a take or an asset
  • Notes and issues thread per VFX shot
  • On-set checklist: clean plate, HDRI, markers, witness cam, LiDAR
  • Lens height and distance recorded on set
  • VFX on-set ticks work offline
  • VFX shots today on My day
  • VFX shot list CSV and PDF, per vendor if you like
  • Needs some VFX flag and overview note per scene

Catering

29

Menus, orders and allergies, sorted by lunch

  • Breakfast, lunch, dinner and other meals per day
  • The film's usual meal times on every new shoot day
  • Menus built from courses and dishes
  • Courses: pick one, pick one or none, pick any, help yourself
  • Main, sides and dessert set up in one tap
  • Diet labels per dish: vegan, vegetarian, gluten-free and more
  • Vegan dishes count as vegetarian without extra ticks
  • Copy a menu from another meal
  • Set menus that follow the caterer onto any film
  • Orders close at a time you set
  • Extras count for spare plates
  • Release a menu, or take it back down
  • People only see dishes that suit their diet
  • Not eating at this meal is an answer
  • Reminder banner on My day until you choose
  • Who hasn't chosen yet, at a glance
  • Remind one person or everyone by email
  • Send a runner to take someone's order
  • Order for people without a login
  • Totals per dish for the kitchen
  • Kitchen sheet PDF with diets and allergies
  • Food's ready alert to everyone eating
  • Kitchen tablet screen with totals and allergies
  • Snacks and the urn: stocked, running low, out
  • Anyone can say the snacks are running low
  • Packed lunches for a second unit, with 24 hours' notice
  • Dinner held at a restaurant or pub, with the booking
  • Cast who aren't called can say they'll be on set
  • Crew fed according to the roster

Travel, stays & lifts

35

Beds, lifts and pickup points, sorted

  • Accommodation: stays, rooms, single and double beds
  • Stays added by name and address, pinned on the map
  • Door and key-safe codes encrypted, shown to occupants
  • Two to a double only if they share or both say they're happy
  • Night-by-night room plan
  • Your room tonight on My day, with Navigate
  • Beds suggested by distance from home
  • Beds suggested after a late wrap and early call
  • Beds suggested by role, like principal cast
  • Ask for a bed on a night from My day
  • Need a bed? on Home for every film that puts people up
  • Say a bed isn't needed after all
  • ADs confirm or decline beds night by night
  • Book all crew or every cast member working, in one tap
  • Undo the last bed decision
  • Bed booked alert to the person and their guardian
  • A booked bed before a day off flagged
  • Room occupancy on the map pin
  • Over-full rooms and missing beds flagged
  • Under-18s sharing with an adult who isn't their guardian flagged
  • Turn accommodation off for films that go home each night
  • Vehicles: crew cars and rentals with seats, bags and kit space
  • Crew cars read from the owner's profile, never copied
  • Unit drivers recognised from the crew list
  • Plan the day's lifts automatically
  • Shared pickup points at a fuel station keep addresses private
  • Home pickups are opt-in
  • Pickup times worked back from each person's call
  • Your lift on My day, with pickup time and place
  • Not coming, making my own way or leaving early, offline
  • Driver's view: stops, riders, bags and Navigate
  • Driver taps On the way and Arrived
  • Licence warnings for minibuses, motorbikes and provisionals
  • Business-use insurance check on own cars
  • Over-full seats, bags or kit space flagged

Kit, hire & radios

19

Every lens, lamp and walkie accounted for

  • One kit list tagged by department
  • Owned, rented or borrowed, and from whom
  • Kit status: needed, booked, with us, returned
  • Condition: OK, needs repair, repaired
  • Back-by dates, overdue in red
  • Returns list: cleaned, checked for damage, returned
  • Kit costs seen by producers only
  • Search kit by name, supplier or owner
  • Charge at wrap reminder for batteries and the set Wi-Fi bag
  • Kit updates work offline
  • Radios numbered with serial, channel and accessories
  • Add radios 1 to N in one go
  • Who has each radio, and on which channel, per day
  • Copy radio assignments from the day before
  • Radios signed out and back, even offline
  • Still without a radio today list
  • Radio wrangler gets the not-back-yet list
  • Your radio and channel on My day
  • Put your radio on charge reminder at wrap

Runners & tasks

25

Errands posted, taken and done in minutes

  • Runners' board anyone can post to
  • Post a job with a pin or a place in words
  • As soon as you can, or needed by a time
  • Urgent red flag
  • Take a job, mark it done, or let it go
  • Jobs go amber then red if nobody takes them
  • Runners get a phone alert for every new job
  • Unclaimed jobs counted in the menu
  • Big-type runners' board for a tablet
  • Pictures for each job from its words
  • Faces on jobs about a person
  • Jobs from catering close themselves when done
  • Done today and helped today
  • Earlier days' jobs with who did them
  • Runner log CSV with minutes to take and finish
  • Film-wide task list
  • Give tasks to one or more people, with a due date
  • Tasks linked to a scene, shoot day or place
  • Repeats: daily, weekly, every shoot day, every N days
  • Mine, everyone's, overdue and this week views
  • Task costs: estimated, actual, paid, for producers
  • Alert and email when a task becomes yours
  • Reminder the day before a task is due
  • My tasks card on Home
  • Ticking tasks works offline

Cast, background & child performers

19

Principals, crowds, kids and the odd dog

  • Cast list with cast numbers
  • Background groups with numbered members
  • Cast calls follow the schedule automatically
  • Cast statuses for the day: W, SW, WF, H
  • Change actor, uncast, and see who had the part before
  • Uncast parts reopened as open positions
  • Animals cast like actors, with a handler
  • Animal welfare and feed notes
  • Call sheet bills animals with their handler
  • Under-18 flag with guardian details
  • Child's performance licence: number, council, expiry, hours
  • Day checked against the child's licence hours
  • Warning when a child is called before the licence allows
  • Warning when a licence has expired or is missing
  • Chaperone named per call, the guardian by default
  • Warning when the chaperone is working that day
  • Guardian sees the child's call times
  • Child's calls in the guardian's call sheet email
  • Character pages with looks, scenes and props

PAs & guardians

20

Someone looking after everyone

  • Name a PA for an actor or a background group
  • PA for the whole shoot or a single day
  • Background groups default to the 3rd AD
  • PA shown on the cast and people lists
  • My people today card for the PA
  • Roll call and head count for a group
  • All in for a whole group in one tap
  • PA taps Got it on the call sheet for their people
  • Set one dish for a whole group, skipping clashing diets
  • Ask a runner for a whole group
  • PA gets the alerts of the people they look after
  • Actors see what their PA did for them
  • Health notes to a PA only with the person's okay
  • Every look at health notes logged
  • Okay on paper recorded for people without a login
  • Releases and contracts always signed by the person
  • Parents add children from their own profile
  • Guardian orders the child's meals
  • Only a guardian can list an under-18 on the wrap page
  • Child's profile handed over to them at 18

Editorial & post

25

From card to cut without a spreadsheet

  • DIT card log per shoot day
  • Cards ticked offloaded, checksum OK, to the editor, formatted
  • Copies made counted against copies needed
  • Card goes red if formatted before it was safe
  • Card log ticks work offline
  • Match clips to takes by timecode, read on the device
  • Nothing uploaded when matching clips
  • Camera clock offsets worked out for you
  • Practice card download to try clip matching
  • Nightly reminder when takes still have no clip
  • DaVinci Resolve metadata CSV per day or for the film
  • Resolve keywords to filter on Preferred, NG and tags
  • Coverage per scene: got, missed, still to get
  • Editor's note per scene
  • Post schedule with owners and deadlines
  • Usual post steps dated from the last shoot day
  • Your post deadlines on Home
  • Editor's daily log in the order shot
  • Editor's report by scene across every day
  • Whole-film coverage report for the start of the edit
  • Editor's reports as PDF, daily log as CSV
  • Send a report to editorial and the director
  • Sent reports kept exactly as they went out
  • Music cues per scene
  • Music on screen list for clearances

Credits, reports & releases

31

The paperwork around the shoot, already typed

  • Credits built from the crew and cast lists
  • Head credits: directed, written and produced by
  • Cast in cast-number order
  • Supporting artists credited by name
  • Crew credited by department
  • Credit names and job titles as people want them
  • Leave someone out of the credits
  • Reorder credit blocks and jobs
  • Credit roller preview
  • Credits as PDF or text for the editor's titles
  • Daily production report PDF
  • Pages shot against the plan
  • Setups got, added on the day, and takes
  • Planned against actual call, lunch and wrap
  • Incidents as a count only on the report
  • Cards safe of cards logged
  • Send the production report to production and producers
  • Releases: appearance, location and materials
  • Location release filled from the place and its dates
  • Sign a release on this phone, no email needed
  • Or send the signing link by email
  • Under-18s' releases signed by a parent or guardian
  • Outsiders sign without joining the film
  • Signed releases filed and copied to the signer
  • Location sheets PDF, or QR codes only
  • Cast sheets PDF, one per character
  • Cast where and when PDF
  • CSV exports of locations, schedule and cast
  • Pitch deck PDF from the film's own data
  • Pitch deck by title or codename
  • Wrap survey: what crews still printed outside the app

Marketing & social

17

Stills approved, posts planned, embargo kept

  • Marketing stills with a caption and credit
  • Producer approves stills for social media
  • Social post planner
  • Instagram, Facebook, TikTok, X, LinkedIn and Threads
  • Character counter per platform
  • Warnings for too many hashtags or pictures
  • Hashtags tidied for you
  • A different caption for one platform
  • Shape hints when a still will be cropped
  • Producer approves each post
  • Can post from date keeps the embargo
  • Social calendar by month
  • Time to post alert to whoever's posting
  • Copy caption and download stills in one tap
  • Mark posted with the link, or failed with why
  • Public films page by codename and stage only
  • Hiring badge on public films

Crew & cast profiles

25

Fill it in once, take it to every film

  • One profile that travels to every film
  • Profile tabs: work, sizes, food and health, emergency, photos
  • Each tab says who on a production can see it
  • Headshots and photos
  • Showreel, Spotlight, IMDb and socials
  • About me for applicants
  • Driving licence categories, full or provisional
  • Vehicles you can bring, with seats and boot size
  • Profile minimum: phone, emergency contact, food
  • Getting started card: install, alerts, profile
  • Delete my details, keep the login
  • Profile link to send to production
  • Productions can find me, opt-in
  • Postcode district only, never the street, for travel
  • People list tabbed by department
  • Import the crew sheet as CSV
  • Crew matched to logins by email
  • Duplicate people spotted and merged
  • Similar names suggested as the same person
  • Add a job title to the film's list
  • Faces beside names
  • Crew Socials: a password-protected wrap page
  • Wrap page lists only people who said yes
  • Each person controls their listing, links and photo
  • Wrap page expires and can be revoked

Films, positions & offers

27

From stranger to signed in a few taps

  • Film visibility: private, link only, listed or public
  • Codename, stage and region for each film
  • Films directory with a hiring filter
  • Film summary page with logline and dates
  • Open positions for crew and cast
  • Every uncast part made a position in one tap
  • Paid or volunteer, with an optional fee shown
  • I'm interested button
  • Open jobs matched to your profile on Home
  • Applicant's work profile in one view
  • Showreels play in place
  • Ask applicants for a self-tape
  • Self-tape sides cut from the script
  • Or upload an audition script
  • Ask every other applicant for the part too
  • Self-tape deadline reminders
  • Shortlist self-tapes
  • Self-tape links cleared six months after the part is filled
  • Casting tick for people who only cast
  • Find people on the app who want to be found
  • Send an offer to a login or any email
  • Producers add the fee and contract
  • NDA and contract sent with the offer
  • Accept, sign, and you're on the film
  • Shoot days filled in from the offer
  • Offer reminders after three days, chase any time
  • Declines carry a note

Contracts & paperwork

32

Signed, filed, fingerprinted, found

  • Paperwork cabinet: contracts, releases, insurance, licences
  • Loan agreements, permits and risk assessments filed too
  • File paperwork about a person, location, prop or the film
  • New versions kept, old ones never lost
  • Expiry reminders 14 and 3 days ahead
  • Every file encrypted on the server
  • Fingerprint of every file as filed
  • Every look at a file logged
  • One-way copy to a producers-only Drive folder
  • Contracts from your own templates
  • Name, role, fee, dates and company filled in
  • Address and agent filled in from the profile
  • Light formatting: headings, bold, numbered clauses
  • Changed from the template shown line by line
  • Warning for blanks left before sending
  • Signing link by email, valid 30 days
  • Signing link dies when signed, withdrawn or edited
  • Sign with a typed name and a drawn signature
  • Signing refused if the words have changed
  • Record of signing page with both fingerprints
  • Producer countersigns
  • Signed PDF filed and emailed to the signer
  • Phone alert when a contract is signed
  • Withdraw a contract
  • File contracts signed on paper
  • Check a PDF is an exact copy of one you filed
  • 19 starter templates for England & Wales
  • Unpaid work written as volunteer agreements
  • Child performer contract signed by the guardian
  • Templates shared across a production company
  • Copy a template for one film or job
  • Find, filter and page through hundreds of contracts

Companies & film schools

23

Run the slate, or the whole course

  • Production companies with their own page
  • Company details: legal name, address, number, VAT
  • Company details flow into contracts and call sheets
  • Company logo used when a film has none
  • Company's default insurer, overridden per film
  • Encrypted production office note for producers
  • Company staff are producers on all its films
  • One shared set of contract templates per company
  • Films tab: stage, dates, call sheets sent, contracts signed
  • Film schools with cohorts, lecturers and students
  • Join a school by email domain
  • Join a cohort by invite code or link
  • Add students by pasting a column of emails
  • Auto-approve or approve each join
  • Privacy note shown before anyone joins
  • Lecturers see their cohorts' films, read-only
  • Lecturers never see students' private profiles
  • Step in on a student film for 24 hours, with a reason
  • Hand a film over or archive it
  • Owners emailed when a lecturer steps in
  • Graduation ends oversight; students keep their films
  • Made at… credit line for school films
  • Reminder 30 days before a cohort ends

Money

36

Rates to receipts, producers' eyes only

  • Rates per person per job: day, hour, week or flat fee
  • Deferred and volunteer rates
  • PAYE or self-employed flag
  • Kit and box rental per day or week
  • Rate changes from a date, earlier days untouched
  • Rates filled from accepted offers
  • Fee words read for you: £150 a day, £12.50/hr
  • Overtime by half hour, hour or minute
  • Short turnaround penalty
  • Night premium
  • 6th day, 7th day and bank holiday rates
  • Paid travel time and mileage
  • Holiday pay for PAYE crew
  • Catering cost per head per day
  • Per diems for units away
  • Costed timesheets per person per day
  • CSV for the accountant
  • Cost of each shoot day, with a running total
  • Spent against committed
  • Budget per department against actual
  • Total row: budget, spent, committed, left, % used
  • Deferred pay list with terms
  • Cost of the day on the producer's production report
  • Mark a fee paid or log part payments
  • My pay: your rates, days and running total
  • Travel cost estimate to set per person
  • Car or public transport rates per mile
  • Purchases logged by any department
  • Receipt photo on every purchase
  • Film card, petty cash or own money
  • Owed back list for own-money buys
  • Producer can query a purchase
  • Spend by character and costume look
  • Card statement CSV matched to purchases
  • Card takings pulled from SumUp hourly
  • Every figure encrypted

First aid & emergencies

16

One tap gets help. One tap gets everyone out

  • First aiders listed, tap to call
  • Someone's hurt alert to every first aider
  • Alert email says only where and when
  • Incident reports: injury, treatment, items used, outcome
  • Witnesses, follow-up and RIDDOR tick
  • Photos and video on incident reports
  • Reports numbered IR-001, IR-002
  • Incident reports encrypted, every opening logged
  • End-of-shoot incident report PDF
  • Incident photos never purged
  • Emergency alert to every phone on the film
  • Emergency alert can't be switched off
  • Emergency alert names the muster point
  • Emergency text ready to share to WhatsApp
  • Medical notes for first aiders behind a logged reveal
  • Fire roll call at the muster point, even offline

Phones, offline & alerts

23

Built for woods, fields and no bars

  • Installs on a phone's home screen like an app
  • Works with no signal
  • Changes queue on the phone and send when signal returns
  • Waiting changes shown with a dashed amber outline
  • Latest change wins, whatever order they arrive
  • Changes that can't apply listed, never lost
  • Save the whole film for offline in one tap
  • Saves itself on Wi-Fi every six hours
  • Shows what's saved and how big
  • Call sheets, sides and the script saved for offline
  • Map tiles downloaded per place
  • Photos queue and upload when there's signal
  • Upload bar with megabytes and speed
  • A photo sent twice is stored once
  • Logging out clears the phone's saved copy
  • Phone alerts on Android and iPhone
  • Choose which alerts each phone gets
  • Send yourself a test alert
  • A newer alert replaces the older one on the lock screen
  • Alerts show on a paired watch
  • Tapping an alert opens the right page
  • Share any page's link from a share button
  • Built phone-first, with laptop layouts

Privacy & security

27

Private by default, logged when it isn't

  • Everything behind a login
  • Roles: owner, admin, head, crew, cast, viewer
  • Producer tick for money and paperwork
  • Under-18s only listed publicly with a guardian's yes
  • Phone numbers only for heads and above
  • Profiles split into parts by who needs them
  • Allergies shown to catering and first aid, not the whole crew
  • Measurements shown to costume and make-up, not everyone
  • Address and date of birth only for production
  • Sensitive details revealed by a click that's logged
  • Personal details encrypted in the database
  • Profiles never printed, bar the kitchen's allergy list
  • Sign in with fingerprint or face (passkeys)
  • Email when a passkey is added
  • Passwords at least 10 characters, checked against breaches
  • Email changes wait for confirmation, with an Undo
  • Old address warned of an email change
  • Rate limits on logins, sign-ups and links
  • Shared links are unguessable, expire and can be revoked
  • Shared pages hidden from search engines
  • No third-party requests from the wrap page
  • Under-18s can't register; guardians manage them
  • Wrap page photos deleted when consent is withdrawn
  • Personal data cleared 12 months after a film is archived
  • Archived photos purged after 30 days
  • Share a PDF outside by expiring link or email
  • Every change written to an activity log

Admin & housekeeping

25

The boring bits, already done

  • Many films on one account, switch between them
  • Your films and what you are on each, on Home
  • Film Home: next day, weather, scenes, contacts, hospital
  • Department pages anyone on the crew can read
  • Menu by stage: pre-production, shoot, post
  • Department pages tabbed by stage
  • What this film uses: switch whole parts off
  • Switched-off parts hide, never delete
  • Approve new sign-ups
  • Users list with search and filters
  • View the app as any member
  • Show and restore archived items
  • Nothing deleted, only archived
  • Help guides: So, you want to…
  • Take me there opens the page with the button pulsing
  • New here? card with your guides
  • Guided tour on a demo film
  • Try anything on the demo film first
  • Nightly backups, copied offsite and encrypted
  • Logins and roles managed per film
  • Google Drive browser fenced to the film's folder
  • Attach Drive files to scenes, pins, props and days
  • Upload-only Drive page for crew and cast
  • Drive images and video preview in the app
  • Every link on the film in one list

That’s it

843 things. For now.

142 more are already on the to-do list, and every week brings new ones from real conversations with people who make films for a living.

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