Stylist

What this is about

Wardrobe is the department most dependent on other people's timing. Fittings need cast, cast needs casting, and the number of looks a day can carry is written in the schedule long before it is written on the rack.

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:

• Every wardrobe change on set needs a slot in the day, and slots are schedule currency
• Scenes with rain, food or action need continuity doubles bought before the shoot, not after the first stain
• Patterns that moiré and logos that need clearing are camera problems styling solves in advance

What the plan has to deliver

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

• Final sizes early enough for fittings and alterations
• Change slots visible in the schedule
• Continuity doubles for messy scenes agreed in prep
• Logo and pattern checks before the shopping day

Common pitfalls

What most often goes wrong in practice:

• Confirming looks before casting is final
• Planning more looks into a day than its schedule has change slots

With TillyGen

TillyGen counts wardrobe changes as schedule items, so the look plan and the day plan agree before the fitting.

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.