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Everything you need to build your Crew Card, get discovered, put out Crew Calls, and run a shoot. New here? Start with What is ScenePaper.
Getting Started
New to ScenePaper? Start here.
What is ScenePaper?
ScenePaper connects film productions with verified crew — discovery, hiring, and on-set tools in one place.
Creating your account
Choose a Crew or Production account, sign up, and complete your profile.
Crew or production — which account do I need?
What the signup choice actually decides, and what it does not.
The ScenePaper glossary
Every ScenePaper term, mapped to plain language.
Your first week on ScenePaper
What to actually do first, in order, for crew and for productions.
Is ScenePaper free?
Yes. What that covers, and what it does not.
How ScenePaper decides who is real
Gate Check, verified credits, guilds and wrap reports — and their limits.
Why can't I…?
The most common blocks, and what each one actually means.
For Crew
Build your Crew Card, get discovered, and get booked.
Building your Crew Card
Your Crew Card is your professional profile. Here's how to build one that gets you found and booked.
Getting Cleared (verification)
How Crew Card verification works — from In the Gate to Cleared.
Getting discovered in Scout
How productions find crew, and how to make sure they find you.
Finding and submitting to Crew Calls
Browse open jobs, filter to what fits, and submit — with a cover note, self-tape, and your rate.
Tracking your submissions and bookings
Follow every submission from Submitted to Booked, respond to callbacks, and see your confirmed work.
Messaging with Comms
Talk to productions (or crew) directly, share files, and keep everything in one thread.
Wrap Reports
The peer-review system that builds trust on ScenePaper.
The Diary — your shooting calendar
Every day you are booked, held or pencilled, across every project.
Your auditions
Self-tapes, callbacks, and where you are in the process.
Scripts shared with you
Where scripts and sides a production has given you access to live.
Your scenes on a project
The scenes and shots you appear in, without reading the whole script.
The Lot — the industry feed
Posting between jobs, and what belongs there.
The Green Room — crew knowledge
Lessons from crew who have solved the thing you are stuck on.
Equipment — renting and listing gear
Listing kit you own, and hiring kit you need.
Film festivals
A directory of festivals, with what each one wants.
Director profiles
A director's own page — filmography, awards, and gallery.
For Productions
Set up your Production House, put out Crew Calls, and book crew.
Setting up your Production House
Create your company profile so crew know who's hiring.
Posting a Crew Call
Put out a job, reach the right crew, and start receiving submissions.
Reviewing submissions and booking crew
Work through submissions, hold your favourites, run callbacks, and book.
Call Sheets
Build and share the shortlist of who's needed on set.
Team and permissions
Invite people to your Production House and control what each can do.
Contracts
Send a contract to booked crew, and track it from sent to accepted.
The Screening Room
Profiles you have looked at recently.
Your crew's history with your house
Every person you have hired, what they did and were paid, how reliable they were, and what your team thought — private to your house.
Telling the Story
The Story Room — premise, spine, characters, scenes and the threads that tie them together.
The Story Room, and the order to use it
What each room is for, and why the order matters more than it looks.
Your premise, and why it gets locked
The one line the whole film is measured against — and what the Compass asks for.
The spine — what it is and why you need one
Seven load-bearing beats, and what goes wrong without them.
Creating characters
Five questions that turn a name into a person, and how relationships are mapped.
Outlining scenes in the Story Room
Hanging scenes off the spine, drafting them in versions, and what a scene has to answer.
The Payoff Sheet — plants, payoffs and the Story Map
How scenes connect, what you planted and never fired, and seeing the whole shape at once.
From story to script, and on to the floor
How story characters map to script characters, and how a scene becomes a real one.
Who can read your script
Access levels, sharing, expiry, and plainly what the encryption does and does not protect against.
The Writers' Room — a manual
Everything the screenplay editor does, in the order you will need it.
Starting a script
Fifteen templates, importing what you already have, and what the parser reads.
Writing in the editor
The six elements, every shortcut, and the four things the editor does so you do not have to.
Drafts, revisions and the editing lock
What saves automatically, what does not, and why only one person can type at a time.
Sides and distribution
Sending an actor only their scenes, watermarks, expiry and the download log.
Running a Production
Inside a project — script, breakdown, schedule, call sheets, and wrap.
Creating a project
The four steps of the New Project wizard, and what each answer actually changes.
How a project works, end to end
The whole production path — what each step needs, what it feeds, and what deleting it does.
Writing or importing your script
The Writers' Room, the Story Room, and how revisions are tracked.
Breaking down your script
Tagging what each scene needs, and why everything after depends on it.
Scheduling and the stripboard
Turning broken-down scenes into shoot days, and reading the Day Out of Days.
Shot lists and storyboards
Planning coverage shot by shot, and tracking what has been got.
Casting your characters
Linking real people to the characters in the script.
Daily call sheets
Building, issuing, revising, and knowing who has actually read it.
Dailies, takes and continuity
Logging what actually happened on the day.
Budgets and change orders
What you planned, what you have committed, and what it will actually cost.
Department workflows
Props, VFX, music, post and deliverables, each with their own track.
Ordering junior artistes from a contractor
Order a count from a coordinator, count them at call and wrap, and pay only for the heads that worked.
Planning who is needed on each day
Sets, the crew each shoot day needs, who is held or confirmed, and what happens when the schedule moves.
Allowances and the pay run
Bata, per diem and night allowance on the day; bonuses, loans and vouchers on the settlement; and the payout file for the bank.
Paying cast and crew: per call or on contract
Daily crew are paid by the call; your lead and director on a fee. Each booking says which, and hold days pay what the production sets.
Who can edit the schedule
Which roles can move strips and shoot days by default, and how to change that for one production.
Deleting scenes, shoot days, draft call sheets and shot lists
What can be deleted, what is refused and why, and what is reversed instead of deleted.
Checking the unit in on the day
Crew tap "I'm here" on their own call-sheet link; the AD marks the rest. Real arrival and wrap times go straight onto the day's pay.
The Daily Production Report
What each shoot day was — planned against shot, takes, setups, attendance, delays and cost — signed at wrap and sent as a PDF.
Unit registers: kit, vehicles, damage, incidents and permits
Who has which piece of kit, each vehicle's log, what was damaged and who bears it, the incident log, and the permits that cover each location.
Making sure everyone has seen tomorrow's call sheet
Day-before reminders, automatic follow-ups for anyone who has not confirmed, and messages in the unit's own language.
Account & Settings
The Booth — manage your account, notifications, and privacy.
Managing your account in The Booth
Notifications, privacy, following, job alerts, and your profile — all in The Booth.
Referrals and credits
How referral credits are earned, what they're worth right now, and what happens when paid plans launch.
Call Times — your notifications
What ScenePaper tells you about, and what each kind of alert means.
Who can see what
What is public, what is not, and what only you can see.
On Mobile
The ScenePaper app for iOS and Android.