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Run your shoot from call sheet to wrap.
Budgets, schedules, crew, call sheets, and read receipts — built for line producers and production managers.
| Role | Name | Call |
|---|---|---|
| Director | Sarah Chen | 06:30 |
| Producer | Marcus Rivera | 06:00 |
| 1st AD | Jamie Okafor | 05:30 |
| DP | Alex Petrov | 06:00 |
| Gaffer | David Kim | 06:00 |
| Key Grip | Rachel Torres | 06:00 |
| Sound Mixer | Tom Nguyen | 06:30 |
| Sc# | I/E | Description | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | EXT | Epilogue. Maya at the overlook at sunrise. | 1 |
| 1 | EXT | Maya arrives back in town. | 2/8 |
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Budgets, schedules, crew, call sheets, and read receipts — built for line producers and production managers.
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Built for line producers, production managers, ADs, and small production companies.
Short Film — Pre-Production
Your entire production at a glance
Crew, cast, locations, budget, schedule, shot list, call sheets, equipment, art, and tasks connected under one project.
Import Final Draft or Fountain, read the screenplay in-app with proper formatting, and tag props / wardrobe / set dec by highlighting text. Clicks on characters and locations jump straight to their pages.
Update a crew rate and the budget recalculates. Move a location and the call sheet pulls fresh weather and hospital data automatically.
Log wrap times, calculate tiered OT (1x/1.5x/2x), and track amounts owed per crew member.
Email the call sheet to crew + cast in one click, attachments merged in as one PDF. Each recipient gets a unique confirm-receipt link, and your delivery board updates live as confirmations come in.
Create an org, invite your team, and share projects automatically. Build a crew directory with contact info, rates, dietary needs, and medical notes.
Track estimates vs. actuals with line items that auto-link to crew rates and equipment costs — with a Days × Units multiplier and per-day/city itemized breakdowns for the way productions really spend.
Drag-and-drop scene strips, automatic labor cost calculations, and DOOD reports in one click. Assign scenes, crew, and locations to each shoot day.
Start a project from the built-in Standard film production template (44 tasks from development through delivery) or one of your own. Tasks are assigned to roles, so a task for the Gaffer lands on your gaffer the day you hire one, and due dates follow your first shoot day.
Flag any custom field as On cards and its value shows up as a colored tag on every art item: scan a scene’s props and know instantly what’s acquired and what isn’t. And your schedule now knows what already happened: days in the past drop into a collapsible wrapped days section so the top of the list is always what’s next. Both came straight from user requests.
Pick a scene in the Camera Log and your shots from the Shot List appear as cards. Click + Add Take and roll/lens/T-stop carry forward. Behind the scenes, every take auto-fills a row in the Script Supervision Log — separate tab, ready for the supervisor to add dialogue changes and pages covered. Mark a shot complete in the Shot List and the script auto-lines, color-coded by coverage. Open the script reader and the lining shows up in the scene chapters.
Hit Send Call Sheet, pick the crew + cast for the day, and a branded email goes out with the packet, call sheet plus any attachments, as one PDF. Each recipient gets a unique Confirm Receipt link — no login required — and your delivery board lights up as confirmations come in.
| Role | Name | Call |
|---|---|---|
| Director | Sarah Chen | 06:30 |
| Producer | Marcus Rivera | 06:00 |
| 1st AD | Jamie Okafor | 05:30 |
| DP | Alex Petrov | 06:00 |
| Gaffer | David Kim | 06:00 |
| Key Grip | Rachel Torres | 06:00 |
| Sound Mixer | Tom Nguyen | 06:30 |
| Sc# | I/E | Description | Pages |
|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | EXT | Epilogue. Maya at the overlook at sunrise. | 1 |
| 1 | EXT | Maya arrives back in town. | 2/8 |
Select a shoot day. Your call sheet builds itself — crew, cast, scenes, weather, maps, hospital info. Email it to the team in one click and watch confirmations roll in live. When the day wraps, log hours and the system calculates pay with film industry OT rules.
Pick your location and shoot date. Weather forecast, sunrise and sunset times, and the nearest hospital populate automatically — no Googling required.
Track every camera, lens, and light across projects. Monitor investment payoff, co-ownership splits, and rental income as your equipment earns revenue.
| Feature | Spreadsheets | Other Tools$29+/mo | Production SlateFrom $0/mo |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | $29+/mo | Free / $12 Pro / $20 Team |
| Budget tracking | Manual | Add-on | Included |
| Budget import/export (Excel, CSV) | Manual | ||
| Movie Magic Budget compatible | |||
| Industry budget templates (AICP, etc.) | 6 built-in | ||
| Stripboard scheduling | |||
| Auto-fill call sheets | |||
| Send call sheets + read receipts | Add-on | ||
| Live weather on call sheets | |||
| Crew directory + connections | |||
| Crew hours + OT calculator | Manual | Included | |
| Equipment sharing + ROI tracking | Included |
Start free. Upgrade when you outgrow it. Freelancers invited to a project are always free.
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A shot list is the shooting-day plan that turns a scene into a numbered sequence of camera setups. Here's what it is, who builds it, and how it relates to storyboards and coverage.
The line producer turns a script into a workable budget and keeps the shoot inside it — a different job than the producer or the UPM.
A tech scout is where department heads solve the "how" of a location after the director has already picked the "what." Here's who attends and what actually gets decided.
A copy-paste shot list template with every column a working set needs, plus a column-by-column guide for what actually goes in each field.
Three tiers. Free gets you 2 projects, 50 budget items, 15 crew, 5 shoot days, and call sheet sending to 10 recipients × 3 sends per project — no credit card required. Pro is $12/month or $99/year for individual producers: unlimited personal projects, clean PDFs, in-app script reader, Script Supervision Log + auto-lining, custom project stages, budget import from Excel / CSV / Movie Magic XML, crew payroll. Team is $20 per user per month (or $199 per user per year) — flat per-seat pricing with no base fee and no minimums, where every seat gets everything in Pro plus an organization workspace, budget Globals & Fringes, equipment sharing + partner splits, full equipment accounting, organization-shared task templates, unlimited call sheet recipients & sends, and custom org logos. Seats are billed to the organization admin's card and prorate when teammates join or leave. Freelancers invited to a single project are always free to collaborate, and call sheets they send from your project use your plan's sending limits.
Click Send Call Sheet next to Export PDF on any saved call sheet. Pick the crew + cast for the day (anyone with an email is pre-checked), optionally add a personal note, and Production Slate emails everyone the call sheet, with any attachments merged into one PDF, and a unique Confirm Receipt link. Recipients click the link and your delivery board updates live — no login required for them. If a send is interrupted, retry it and it picks up where it stopped, so nobody is emailed twice. The status panel shows who's confirmed, who hasn't, and any failed sends, refreshing every 15 seconds.
Your data is yours. Export everything as PDFs (budgets, call sheets, shot lists, DOOD reports, calendars) or download all your data as a single JSON file from Settings. Your account and all project data remain accessible indefinitely — we don't delete accounts for inactivity. Behind the scenes, encrypted backups of the entire database run nightly to independent off-site storage.
Films, shorts, music videos, commercials, branded content, web series, and TV. If your production has a crew, a budget, and a schedule, Production Slate fits.
Invite crew and collaborators to your project, set roles, and control which pages each person can access. Create an organization and every new project is shared automatically.
Production Slate is a progressive web app that works on any device — iPhone, iPad, Android, or desktop. Add it to your home screen for quick access on set.
Production Slate uses 256-bit encryption, row-level security on every table, HTTPS everywhere, industry-standard authentication, and encrypted nightly backups to independent off-site storage. Your data is stored in a secure, isolated database — not a shared spreadsheet.
Invite your crew, assign roles, and control exactly who sees what. Create an organization and every new project is shared automatically.
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