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ShootBuddy · Now in private beta
ShootBuddy turns your one-liner into a living coverage plan — so you shoot the right days, cover every principal, and never discover after the wrap that a key moment was missed.
Everything coverage planning needs, built for stills rather than bent out of a spreadsheet.
Upload the one-liner PDF and ShootBuddy reads scenes, cast, shoot days, locations, day/night and int/ext into a structured, searchable stripboard.
See which principals are in each scene and day, filter by cast, scene type, location and priority, then place photographers where they matter most.
Assign photographers to specific days and keep night work, travel and local-hire options visible while decisions are still flexible.
ShootBuddy highlights each character's first day, summarises what's covered, and flags principals who won't be covered while there's still time to act.
Import an updated one-liner and ShootBuddy highlights the changes that affect coverage, so you re-plan without starting over.
Export a polished coverage report for the producer, photographer and wider team, with priorities, scene notes and the brief for the day.
See the shoot as a living board, not a static spreadsheet. Days, scenes, cast, locations - all are searchable - with clever flags for an actor's first day on set and the busiest cast days to help you pick the best days for publicity coverage.
Share summaries of your publicity plan, or invite internal and external team members to view or contribute to the schedule and coverage strategy.
Schedules move because productions move. Upload the newest one-liner and ShootBuddy compares it against your current plan, then flags the changes that matter: scenes that moved days, cast now appearing on different days, locations that changed.
Instead of scanning two PDFs line by line, you get a focused change report that tells you where to look, what's at risk, and which decisions need another pass.
The shoot only happens once — whatever you capture is what the campaign has to work with: the poster, EPK, social, festival deck and press. If a principal never got a strong frame, that's not a problem you fix later.
ShootBuddy surfaces missing principals and key moments while you still have time to add a day, and shows which cast your plan includes and who is still missing.
ShootBuddy helps you discover photographers local to your shooting area, protecting the budget by cutting accommodation and travel without compromising coverage.
Search by locality, then go deeper by skills or fit — action, underwater, key art, or a particular production style. Save photographers to your roster and link them directly to shoot days.
Beta access is limited. Register your interest for a chance to become a beta tester and get early free use during the beta period.
Because photographer days are the budget. The days-out-of-days view lets you sort by how many cast are on each day and choose which cast you care about, so you can optimise limited stills days around the people who matter.
Spot the rare days when the right people are together and the group-photo opportunity is strongest.
ShootBuddy is full of practical planning tools built around the details that decide whether a stills day actually covers what you need.
Highlight the first time any cast member comes on set — so you track first days and don't miss guest actors who only appear briefly, especially when the schedule keeps changing.
Search for individual cast or specific cast combinations to spot the rare days when the right people are together and the group-photo opportunity is strongest.
The days-out-of-days view lets you sort by the number of cast each day and choose which cast you care about, so you can optimise photographer days around the key cast on set.
The cast tab of the summary page shows which actors your coverage plan includes and who is still missing, so you can adjust before press images are needed.
From unit publicists to studio photo teams, ShootBuddy keeps coverage in one place that everyone can rely on.
Manage a slate without scattering coverage across spreadsheets, PDFs, inboxes and memory.
Save money by finding local photographers and automatically counting coverage days, nights and splits — prioritising limited stills days by how many cast are on set.
Company-based access and roles help studio photo teams keep output clean and shareable with authorised people across productions.
Arrive knowing the scenes, cast, priorities, hero moments and access notes that matter that day.
You don't get a reshoot for the publicity stills. When the unit wraps, whatever you captured is what the campaign has to work with — the poster, EPK, social, festival deck and press. These are the ways coverage quietly slips:
New one-liners mean manual cross-checking
A new PDF lands. Scenes, cast, days and locations all need checking again to make sure nothing in your publicity plan needs reworking.
Coverage lives in someone's head
Questions like “have we got Elena's first day?” or “what about the beach sequence?” stay uncertain until it's too late to act.
Photographers booked on the wrong days
Stop photographers hearing “you should have been here yesterday” because the scenes moved and you missed the key moment you needed.
The schedule changes and the plan drifts
Call sheets and one-liners move constantly. The spreadsheet version of the plan quietly falls out of sync, hiding risk until the shoot has moved on.
Close the gaps before the unit wraps.
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