Planning tools for your kind of shoot

Commercials

How commercial producers go from agency boards to an AICP bid, a shot-based schedule, and call sheets that work for crew, agency, and client on the same set.

Corporate video

How corporate video producers plan shoots inside working offices: executive time windows, employee releases, legal approvals, and a call sheet the client can read.

Documentaries

How documentary producers plan interview days, verite shoots, b-roll, and archival clearances from an outline, and budget a film whose story changes as you shoot.

Indie feature films

How indie features plan a shoot: breakdown, stripboard, cast day counts, budget and incentives, and call sheets, with the paperwork that decides whether you finish.

Music videos

How music video producers plan from a treatment: performance passes, playback, artist looks, locations, and a fixed budget, with the shot list doing a script's job.

Nonprofit films

How nonprofit film producers plan shoots at program sites: informed consent from the people served, grant-ready budgets, fixed gala deadlines, and multiple cutdowns.

Short films

How to plan a short film shoot: realistic pages per day, favors and free locations, a small budget that holds, releases, and call sheets for a volunteer crew.

Student films

How student film crews plan around class schedules, equipment checkout, school approvals, and releases, and how instructors run production assignments in Storiara.

Unscripted and reality

How unscripted and reality producers plan shoots from a format bible: multicam units, participant releases, story beats, location logistics, and data-heavy post.

Vertical dramas

How vertical drama producers plan a season of short episodes: high page counts per day, story-day wardrobe continuity, 9:16 framing, and fast call sheet turnaround.

Web series

How web series producers cross-board a season, number scenes by episode, track wardrobe continuity across episodes, and keep recurring cast day counts under control.

Line producers

How line producers build a first budget from the script, keep cast days tied to the schedule, and test incentive assumptions before the numbers go to financiers.

Casting directors

How casting directors estimate work days from the script, collect actor availability in one format, and keep offers in step with the shooting schedule.

Film schools

How film school instructors run pre-production courses in Storiara with class join codes, assignments with due dates, and student project submissions.

Producers

How producers pull a day count, a first budget, and incentive estimates from a script before hiring a line producer, and keep one version of the project.

Location managers

How location managers map script sets to real addresses, hold dates against a moving schedule, plan crew parking, and hand clean details to the call sheet.

Production companies

How production companies keep scripts, schedules, budgets, and crew access consistent across a slate of features, commercials, and documentaries.

Production managers

How UPMs read the stripboard for cost, rent specialty gear against the days it's used, track crew deals, and keep the prep calendar from slipping.

Screenwriters

How screenwriters prepare a draft for production: consistent scene headings, knowing which pages cost money, and reading page counts the way an AD does.

Directors

How directors count setups before the schedule locks, build a shot list the 1st AD can board, and keep location picks and notes with the project.

First assistant directors

How 1st ADs move from the first script read to a locked one-line in prep, balance pages across a week, and absorb revisions without losing the board.