Film pre-production

From script
to wrap.

Upload your script: PrepWrap breaks it down, builds the shooting schedule, prepares the call sheets and supports the locations team until the shoot wraps. You stay in control of every element.

Free beta test · invitation-only access.

Three steps, an afternoon saved

Import

PDF, Final Draft (.fdx), Fountain or Word. On import, the script is split into scenes, with their sets, the characters who speak and each scene's length in eighths of a page (one page = 8 eighths, the standard unit of a schedule). Everything else is read in the next step.

Break down

The AI reads every scene and suggests cast, bit parts, background, props, wardrobe, vehicles, effects… Each element quotes the exact line of the script. A few minutes for a feature. You approve, rename, merge.

Schedule

The shooting schedule groups sets shot at the same real location, respects your days off and the number of days the production gives you. Each day gets its call sheet, with what's still missing and the changes from one version to the next.

What PrepWrap does

Checkable breakdown

Nothing made up: every suggestion points to the exact line in the script. If an element can't be found in the scene, it's rejected and you see why.

Continuity warnings

Same set spelled two ways, an isolated DAY within a NIGHT sequence, a character who exits then speaks without re-entering, an age that changes: flagged with the passages involved.

Script revisions

Script rewritten? Upload the new draft: PrepWrap shows what changed, scene by scene, and the impact on the schedule before you apply it. Breakdown, notes and reports are kept.

Shooting schedule

Sets at the same real location are grouped, cast and location availability is respected. 30 days imposed? PrepWrap works out the pace. A scene that can't be placed is flagged, with the reason.

Department lists

Hair & makeup, props, prop weapons, set dressing, camera, sound, effects: each department gets its list, with dates from the shooting schedule.

Call sheets

One sheet per day: times, cast, locations, hospital, sun times and the location's weather forecast. What's missing is flagged, each new version shows its changes, and every department gets its day sheet. Your own layout, logos and access map.

Keep the crew posted

A secret link opens the published call sheets on a phone, no account needed, with the production's announcements on top. Everyone can subscribe to their shooting calendar, crew or character, which updates when the schedule changes.

Telegram, WhatsApp and text

The PrepWrap bot posts every call sheet and announcement to the crew's Telegram group on its own, with a reminder the evening before. Texts ready to send from your phone, or sent to everyone through your own Twilio account.

Production

Sets and locations, permits scene by scene, vendors, crew, cast, and the roles required by the shooting country.

Locations and on set

Contracts, parking holds, neighbors and tasks, with deadlines that follow the schedule. On set, the run of day, incidents and petty cash are logged on a phone, even offline.

Reports and post-production

Camera report and rushes sheet, script supervisor's report, and every evening the daily production report: progress, behind schedule, media, incidents. Then the post-production schedule.

Budget and expenses

Estimate from the schedule and the breakdown, with your own rates: a line without a rate is flagged, never estimated. Invoices are compared category by category. Cash vouchers and a petty cash book. Plus a printable production book.

Budget on the official template

The budget follows your funder's template: CNC (features, shorts, TV), ICAA, FFA, MiC (Italy), OFC or BFI, with their chapters and accounts. Versions compared, Excel export with formulas. No amounts provided.

Excel import and document templates

Coming from other software? Import your breakdown or schedule (Excel or CSV). And PrepWrap gives you, country by country, the list of essential documents with the official texts, plus letters ready to fill in.

Team, access and backups

Each team member has their own access and rights on prep and production. Every night, a copy is saved for 30 days. You can go back at any time. Plus a contact book shared by all your films.

The interface

Screenshots of a demo project: a fictional 14-scene script written for the example.

DashboardPages, scenes, sets, cast, shooting days and prep progress at a glance.
Script breakdownEvery element with its category, its scenes and the line of the script behind it. Approve, rename, merge.
Department listsEach department's list, with the scenes and shooting days involved.
Sets and locationsLink script sets to a real location: the shooting schedule groups them.
Call sheetsTimes, cast, sets and nearest hospital, with a list of what's missing before you send it. The preview matches the printout.
Locations & scoutingContracts, neighbors, safety and deadlines for each location, updated whenever the schedule changes.
On-set locationsThe day's run, opening and closing the location, incidents and contacts, on your phone even without a signal.
Camera reportRolls and cards per camera, footage or running time, and the rushes shipment to the lab with who's in charge.
Script supervisor's reportPages, scenes and screen time shot each day, takes and notes for the editor.
Post-production scheduleYour steps, their durations and how they depend on each other: dates are worked out from the last shooting day.
Script revisionsChanges scene by scene, and their impact on the shooting schedule, before you apply them.
Daily production reportEvery evening: planned and actual times, scenes shot, ahead of or behind schedule, media and incidents.

Make it yours

Everyone has their habits. Theme, font and strip colors change in one click, and so does the vocabulary.

Dark, Courier PrimeThe default: a screening-room background and the screenplay font.
Light, Atkinson HyperlegibleA light theme, and a font designed for legibility. The theme can also follow your device.
Dark, IBM Plex SansFive fonts to choose from: Courier Prime, Atkinson Hyperlegible, Lexend, IBM Plex Sans, Source Sans 3.
Your strip colorsPick any color you like for each of the six strip types: interior day, exterior day, interior night, exterior night, start of day and end of day. On screen and in print.
SettingsLanguage, regional variant, vocabulary, theme and font, saved to your account so they follow you to any device.

Eight languages, your region's vocabulary

The app speaks English, French, Spanish, German, Italian, Thai, Vietnamese and Afrikaans. In English, French, Spanish and German, industry terms were checked against each country's professional sources, and you choose your variant: US or UK, France or Québec, Spain or Latin America. Don't like a term? Replace it with your own.

Shooting schedule
FRplan de travail
QChoraire de tournage
ENshooting schedule
ESplan de rodaje
DEDrehplan
Call sheet
FRfeuille de service
ENcall sheet
ESorden de rodaje
LatAmhoja de llamado
DETagesdisposition
First assistant camera
FR1er assistant caméra
US1st AC
UKfocus puller
ESfoquista
DE1. Kamera-Assistenz

Your next shoot starts with a script.

PrepWrap is invitation-only during launch.