When the Party Starts
Slates and confetti come down over the app when two things are true about the last shoot day. Its call sheet has gone out, and the day has run its full length. Gone out means a full send by email or SMS, or the recipients copied or drafted to in your own email app. The length is the Avg Day Shoot Duration under Auto-Draft Call Times in Globals, counted from that day's general crew call on the production's clock. With no duration set, it counts 12 hours.
- The check runs when the production is opened. A show that wraps while the app sits open celebrates the next time somebody loads it.
- It shows once per production per browser, and only in the 60 days after the last day ends. Opening an old show on a new laptop next year does nothing.
- Demo productions never throw one.
- See what we made opens the Wrap. Later closes it.
Where the Wrap Lives
Welcome tab, Wrap. It fills in as the shoot goes, and opens mid-schedule too: the top line reads "Day 12 of 30. We're on our way." until the last day is shot. It needs shoot days with dates on the Days tab. Opening it plays a shorter version of the party once per page load, as soon as one day is shot.
| View | Who sees it | What it holds |
|---|---|---|
| The Wrap | Everyone on the show | The headline numbers and the story sections |
| Day by Day | Everyone on the show | A card for every day shot |
| Producer | Producer level only | Burn and overtime |
| Share | Everyone on the show. Publishing takes an editor. | Public links. See Sharing the Wrap. |
The Story Sections
The top card carries the title the way the call sheet sets it, the company, the dates, the director and four numbers: shoot days, people, pages and locations. The sections follow in this order. A section with nothing to draw is left out, so the weather needs two shot days with a forecast and The hours needs call and wrap times.
| Section | Tagged for | What it draws |
|---|---|---|
| The shoot | Crew, ADs | Every day on the board, coloured by its scenes. Pick a day to read its card. |
| Where we shot | Crew, ADs | The map of locations and company moves |
| The scene matrix | Crew, ADs | The script by G-Matrix colour, and the stripboard as shot |
| The big days | Crew, ADs | Earliest call, latest wrap, longest day, biggest call, most pages, biggest crowd, hottest day, coldest morning |
| How our days ran | ADs, Producers | Pages, call to wrap, scenes, setups and crew call on an average day |
| Who we had on set | ADs, Producers | Crew, cast and background each day |
| The hours | ADs, Producers | Crew call to wrap, day by day |
| In the can | ADs, Producers | Pages shot against the script |
| The weather | Crew | Highs, lows and the wet days |
| All of us | Crew | Departments by size, and the cast |
The shoot
Each tile is the day's scenes in their G-Matrix colours, as wide as their pages. A dot marks a day that set a record.
Where the Numbers Come From
Everything is read from the show: call sheets, production reports, the schedule, the weather on each sheet. A day with a production report that has pages and scenes filled in uses the report. A day without one uses the schedule, and its figures show dimmed on the day cards. Wrap time works the same way: the report's wrap when there is one, otherwise the call sheet's estimate, labelled Wrap est. The Reports with totals tile under How our days ran says how many days came off reports. The Wrap only reads. Nothing on it writes back to the show.
Copying a Section as Text
Most sections carry a Copy button ("Copy this section as text"). It puts that section on the clipboard in plain sentences: the records, the weather, the credits, the averages. Paste it into the group chat, an email to the producers, or the AD's end-of-show notes. The calendar and the map have no copy.
Charts and the Map
Each chart draws itself as it scrolls into view. Hover or tap a day for its exact figures. The map pins every location the unit shot at and draws the company's route between them in shoot order. A pin wears the G-Matrix colour of what was mostly shot there and the number of the first day there. Hover or tap a place the unit went back to and it bursts into every day spent there. Base camp, crew parking and the other unit spots show as small dots around the set pin, where they have coordinates.
- Zoom with the buttons, a pinch, Ctrl or ⌘ with the scroll wheel, or a double click. Drag to pan once zoomed in.
- Play the shoot again replays the route from Day 1.
- Each location name opens its address in Google Maps.
- Locations with no coordinates are listed under Also shot at.
- If the map picture cannot load, the pins still draw on a plain grid.
Where we shot
- 1215Kessler Point Light
- 34Anchor Motel
- 5612The Cannery
- 78914Stage 2
- 1011Riverwalk
- 13Cape Road Diner
Day by Day
A card for every day shot: date, nickname, location, weather, a headcount bar, pages, scenes, call and wrap. The line at the top comes from the day's strongest record, so the longest day says "The longest day of the shoot: 14.5 hours from call to wrap." and an ordinary Tuesday reads plainly. Switch between All days and The standout days. The Copy button covers whichever set is showing. Picking a day on The shoot calendar lands on its card.
The Producer View
Producer level only. The shoot in money shows Burned, Projected total, cost per page, cost per shoot day, cost per person-day and a Daily burn chart, all off the Burn Rate engine. Overtime shows hours past the scheduled day, meal penalties and days past 12 hours, off the Hot Costs reports. A number here is the number on those tabs. AD-level members do not get the view at all, and View as AD hides it.
Presenting It
Present puts the current view full screen, for a wrap-party projector or a production meeting. The view switcher stays at the top. The X leaves full screen. The row of colour dots next to it sets the backdrop: The board, Dusk, Ocean, Forest, Neon or Plain. The choice is kept in this browser, and new share links start from it.