Five Views, One Grid
Transpo is the same grid shape as Lodging: people down the side, days across the top. The view switcher changes what a cell holds.
| View | What each cell holds |
|---|---|
| Crew Transpo | Which working vehicle this crew member drives or rides in |
| Cast Shuttling | How this performer gets to set that day |
| Cast Holding | Where this performer sits between setups |
| Footprint | Which trucks, trailers and facilities are on the lot |
| Vehicles | The vehicle list itself: capacity, driver, rate, MPG |
Defaults and Exceptions
Each person carries a transpo profile: their usual shuttle mode, the working vehicle they drive, and for cast their usual holding space. The profile fills every day. A cell you set by hand overrides the profile for that day alone, which is what a location with its own green room looks like on the grid.
How People Get to Set
Six modes cover almost everything a show does. The code is what prints in the cell.
| Code | Mode | Takes a parking space? |
|---|---|---|
| SH | Shuttle | No |
| U | Uber | No |
| SR | Self-Reporting | Yes |
| PA | Private PA | No |
| RC | Rental Car | Yes |
| CC | Rides w/ Crew | No |
Where Cast Wait
Holding is the part location managers care about, because trailers take space and rooms in a building do not.
| Code | Space | Basecamp cost |
|---|---|---|
| PVT | Private Room | Shares a banger trailer |
| SHR | Shared Room | Two performers to one room |
| 2BG | Double Banger | 4 spaces per 2 rooms |
| 3BG | Triple Banger | 4 spaces per 3 rooms |
| HW | Honeywagon Stall | 4 spaces per 8 stalls |
| CUB | Cubicle | Shares a cubicle trailer |
| MH | Motorhome / Star Trailer | 4 spaces, one performer |
| CHG | Location Changing Room | None |
| GR | Location Green Room | None |
| TENT | Authorized Tent | None |
The Footprint Total
The Footprint view lists the trucks, trailers and facilities a show carries and asks one question per day: is this on the lot. The total underneath is the number a location manager wants.
- Every present row contributes the vehicle spaces it occupies
- Cast holding converts into trailers at your show's ratios, rounded up to whole trailers
- Each motorhome is one performer and 4 spaces of its own
- Crew, cast and extras parking add one space per car
- Location-provided holding adds nothing
| Performer | Gets to set | Holding | Codes |
|---|---|---|---|
Marisol Vega ANA | SH / MH | ||
Dev Ramanathan GEORGE | SH / PVT | ||
Priya Nair DET. HALE | U / PVT | ||
Cole Barrett YOUNG MAN | SR / 2BG | ||
Renee Adjei NURSE | SH / CUB | ||
Bram Kowalski SECURITY | CC / CHG |
| Trucks, trailers and facilities | 21 |
| Cast holding units | 16 |
| Crew parking | 18 |
| Cast parking | 1 |
| Extras parking | 6 |
| Total | 62 |
Your Show's Ratios
The conversion from rooms to trailers depends on what your show actually rented. Set it once in Globals under Transpo and every day recounts.
| Setting | Default | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Private rooms per banger | 2 | A standard double banger |
| Rooms per cubicle trailer | 6 | Cubicle trailer capacity |
| Honeywagon stalls | 8 | Stalls in one honeywagon unit |
| Prep days before | 7 | How far before D1 the logistics grids open |
| Wrap days after | 3 | How far past the last shoot day they run |
The Vehicle List
Vehicles come in three categories: working trucks the departments run, rentals the production pays for by the day, and personal cars. A one-click pre-populate seeds the twelve standard working vehicles, from the Art Truck to the fuel truck. Each vehicle holds capacity, driver names, pickup and dropoff addresses, a daily rate and MPG.
- Working vehicles are assigned to crew in the Crew Transpo view
- Rentals are drawn as possession windows the same way a hotel stay is drawn
- Capacity drives the overload warning when more people are assigned than seats exist
Background Performers
Extras get shuttled and held like everyone else, so they appear in the Cast Shuttling and Cast Holding views and in the day cells. They never appear in Lodging and never get a stay. Their parking count feeds the extras line of the footprint.