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CrewDesk/Who it's for/Commercial production

Three weeks from brief to air. Nothing dropped.

Commercials compress a whole production into days. Every approval, fitting and permit has a date, and the date is close.

One click, no account. The demo is filled with sample productions and rebuilt every day.

The situation

An agency brief, a client with opinions, a shoot day that cannot move. Between the two, dozens of small tasks, each waiting on someone else's yes.

What CrewDesk changes

  • A waiting status for tasks blocked by an approval, so they are chased instead of forgotten.
  • Priorities and due dates on the dashboard every morning.
  • Cast and wardrobe matching to prepare a fitting in minutes.
  • Task templates for the steps every spot repeats.

Keep the client thread in one place

Decisions made on a call go in the project notes. When the question comes back two weeks later, the answer is written down, with its date.

The three weeks, mapped

  • Week one: Development and Location scout. Brief approved, director's treatment, locations shortlisted, casting started.
  • Week two: Pre-production. Callbacks, fittings, tech scout, production meeting, call sheet.
  • Week three: Shooting and delivery. One or two shoot days, then the edit, the client rounds and the masters.

Each step is a task with a name. On a three-week job, a task that slips two days is ten percent of the schedule.

Terms used on this page

Call sheetCallbackLocation scoutPre-productionTech scout

Questions

Asked before the first call

Can clients or agencies get access?

The demo is built for the internal team. A client view with approvals is a frequent request in custom versions.

Can we track several spots of the same campaign?

Yes. Each spot can be its own production, or the campaign can be one production with a task group per spot.

Does it manage usage rights and talent buyouts?

Dates and terms can be noted on the production and on cast profiles. Dedicated rights tracking with expiry reminders is a custom addition.

● Rolling

See it run.

CrewDesk is a working application, not a mock-up. Open it, move a project to the next stage, assign a task, and judge it on what it does.