A small crew gathered around a phone on a tripod beside their van at sunset, checking the shot
The CinemaCrew app icon — a line-drawn walkie-talkie in front of a clapperboard

CinemaCrew

The set, in everyone's pocket.

Call sheets, comms, errands and capture. No group texts.

Everyone on the crew gets today's call sheet, their department's channel and the errands assigned to them. The office gets read receipts and a live map of who is where.

  • iPhone and Android
  • Free for crew

Joining takes one scan

The production office prints a QR code on the call sheet. Scan it and you are on that production, with no account to set up and no password to remember. Open the app and you see the day you are working.

An invite covers one production. You or the PM can switch a device off at any time, and access ends when the show wraps.

One day on the crew

What the app does, in the order a shooting day does it.

A crew member with a coffee checking her phone beside a car with the boot open at dawn

Today's call sheet

Everyone gets today's call sheet with their own call time on top. The office sees who has opened it.

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Your department's channel

You're auto-joined to your own department's channel, and the PM can grant cross-department access when a day needs it.

Numbers, only if you share them

Share your number with your department, and tap a name to call. You opt in, and you can stop any time.

A runner carrying a tray of coffees outside a corner shop at night, checking her phone

Errands, updated from the road

Assigned, en route, done. Runners move an errand along from the truck instead of over the walkie.

The errands board with tasks in Assigned, En route and Done columns

The board the office watches

Every errand sits in one of three columns, and it moves as the runner moves. The office knows what has landed without asking.

A live map of downtown Los Angeles with six crew member markers

Runners on a map

Crew who share their location show up with a short trail behind them. Each person turns it on or off.

The whole day, in one hand

The map, the switch that puts you on it, and your department's rooms. All of it on the phone already in your pocket.

Walk a room, and they walk it too

Scan a location with the phone. The department heads walk the scan from the office.

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Shoot it, and it files itself

Photos and video shot in the app file against the scene, location, scout item or errand you were on. When you can't be at the monitor, the camera feed comes to your phone.

Access ends when the show wraps

One invite covers one production. Every device is listed, and any of them can be switched off.

Get the crew app

One app for each phone, plus the production office in your browser.

The app is free for everyone invited to a production. The office side is the Cinema Set Free dashboard the production already pays for.

What you can do, and where

Everything is on both phones unless this says otherwise.

What you can doiPhoneAndroidThe office
Today's call sheet, with your own call time
See who has opened it
Join by scanning the code on the call sheetissues the code
Your department's chat room
Tap a name to call them
The errands assigned to you
Update an errand from the roadwatches the board
See where the runners are
Shoot photos and video that file themselvesupload
Watch the camera feed on your phone
Upload takes from the day
Scan a room in 3Dcomingview only
Wrap ends your accessrevokes it

Crew without the app get their call sheet by email.

Questions people ask

No. The QR code on the call sheet joins them as a guest. Accounts are for people who work across several productions.

A person answers these, by email.

Try it on one day

Publish a call sheet through the app and watch the read receipts come back.