Travel Day

What this is about

Distant locations create days where people are unavailable for other work and no footage is produced. Whether those days are paid, and at what share of the normal fee, follows agreement rather than a market rule: reduced travel fees are common, long journeys are sometimes folded into the shoot day, and productions that pay nothing tend to lose crew to better offers. For planning the point is simpler — a travel day still consumes hotel, catering, transport and a slot in the calendar. Count it in the schedule and the budget before the location is confirmed.

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

In planning terms, that means:

• A travel day blocks the same calendar slot as a shoot day although no footage is produced
• Hotel, catering and transport still apply, so travel rarely shows up in the fee line alone
• Whether travel is paid, reduced or absorbed belongs in the booking, not in the invoice

With TillyGen

TillyGen places travel days into the schedule as entries of their own, so distant locations reveal their real cost early.

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.