Editor

What this is about

An edit can hide a weak performance, but it cannot invent a missing reverse shot. Whether a scene cuts together is decided in the shot list, weeks before the first bin is created — which makes the editor the quietest stakeholder of pre-production.

Every department needs the same plan in a different view. That is exactly where document collections fail: they only ever serve one perspective well.

What runs differently here

In planning terms, that means:

• Cutaways and inserts are the first shots dropped when a day overruns, and the first thing the edit reaches for
• A dialogue scene without a neutral wide has no exit when continuity breaks between takes
• Naming and folder conventions agreed before the shoot save the entire first day of the edit

What the plan has to deliver

A production plan is useful to this role when it provides the following:

• Safety coverage marked per scene in the shot list
• Circled takes and notes that travel with the footage
• A reaction and a cutaway for every dialogue scene
• Naming conventions fixed before the first card is formatted

Common pitfalls

What most often goes wrong in practice:

• Assuming coverage exists because the storyboard promised it
• Starting the edit without the shot list the material was shot against

With TillyGen

In TillyGen the shot list carries safety coverage per scene, so the edit inherits decisions instead of accidents.

Change one constraint and the consequences travel through the whole plan: affected shots are flagged, the call sheet is regenerated, and nobody keeps working from yesterday's version.