Line Producer

What this is about

A budget that assumes 18 setups a day and a schedule that delivers 12 are two documents describing different films. Reconciling them late is the most expensive correction in 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:

• Every schedule change has a number attached, and it is rarely zero
• Travel days at half rate and prep days at full is a five-figure distinction on longer jobs
• Overtime after hour 10 runs at 1.5×, after hour 12 at 2×

What the plan has to deliver

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

• Budget lines tied to schedule items, not typed twice
• Overtime and turnaround modelled, not estimated afterwards
• Travel and prep days distinguished automatically
• A version history that shows what changed and what it cost

Common pitfalls

What most often goes wrong in practice:

• Building the budget from the wish list instead of the schedule
• Leaving music licensing and archiving out of the number entirely

With TillyGen

Schedule and cost sit in the same model in TillyGen, so moving a scene shows its price immediately.

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.