Why a glossary on a software site
Production runs on shared vocabulary. A new coordinator who mixes up a call time and a crew call, or a client who hears picture lock for the first time, can cost a team an afternoon. We wrote these definitions for the people who join a production from outside the trade: clients, marketing teams, students and new hires.
Each page gives a short definition first, then the detail a working team needs, then one honest paragraph on where the term appears in CrewDesk. Where CrewDesk does not produce a document on its own, we say so, and we say what a custom version built by TECHMA could do instead.
How the terms fit together
Most of these words follow the life of a project. In development and pre-production you meet the script breakdown, the stripboard, the shooting schedule, the location scout and the casting call. During the shoot you live by the call sheet, call times, the slate, takes, coverage and the daily production report. After the wrap come dailies, the rough cut, picture lock, color grading and the deliverables.
CrewDesk follows the same path with five stages: Development, Location scout, Pre-production, Shooting and Delivered. Every production in the app sits in one of them, so the whole team sees the same picture.