Floor Plan

What this is about

During the tech recce someone sketches the room, and that sketch starts working immediately: the DoP marks camera positions A, B and C, the gaffer draws lamps and cable runs, the AD sees where video village and staging fit. On the shoot day the plan answers the question every department asks separately — where will the camera be — before anything heavy gets carried to the wrong side of the room. For stunts and crowd scenes the floor plan doubles as a safety document.

A term only helps when everyone on set means the same thing by it — so what follows is how it is used, not a dictionary definition.

What runs differently here

Where this differs from the general case:

• Camera positions get letters, shots get numbers — the plan and the shot list cross-reference.
• The overhead view reveals 180-degree-line problems before the crew stands in the room.
• A phone photo of a hand sketch beats no plan; precision matters less than agreement.

With TillyGen

In a TillyGen production plan the floor plan sits beside the shot list, so positions and shot numbers describe the same scene.

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.