Freelance filmmaker

What this is about

Without a production office behind you, every hour spent formatting a call sheet is an hour not spent on the work that got you hired. The paperwork still has to be right — a client judges professionalism by it.

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

Where this differs from the general case:

• Client-facing documents are part of the product, not overhead
• A quote without a setup count is a guess you have to honour anyway
• One weather day without a cover set can erase the margin of a small job

What the plan has to deliver

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

• Client-ready documents without a production office
• A quote backed by a setup count
• A call sheet that takes two minutes
• Everything in one place when the job comes back a year later

Common pitfalls

What most often goes wrong in practice:

• Pricing by day rate without checking whether the shot list fits the day
• Skipping the call sheet because the crew is only three people

With TillyGen

TillyGen gives a one-person operation the same paperwork a production office produces, without the office.

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.