NeedToFilm · Production planner

From brief to verified crew in 24 hours.

Describe the film, campaign or video you need. NeedToFilm plans the crew, kit and budget in seconds, then puts real, verified filmmakers on it. You decide how much AI goes into the picture.

Free. A plan in seconds, a verified crew within 24 hours.

SC.01 · The position

Real people, filmed properly, at the pace of the feed.

Feeds are filling up with generated video, and audiences have learned to scroll past it in under a second. What stops them is a real person saying something true, filmed properly.

NeedToFilm makes that kind of production quick to plan and easy to staff. AI does the planning, budgeting and sourcing. Real crews do the filming.

Production has always made you pick two

  • Good
  • Fast
  • Affordable

Weeks used to go on working out the crew, the kit and the cost, then finding people who are free. That part now takes minutes, so you stop choosing between good and fast.

SC.02 · How it works

From a sentence to a crew on set.

You do not need to know what a gaffer or a DIT does. Tell us what you are making and the planner works out the production around it.

  1. 01

    Describe it

    A sentence, a script or a deck. Say what you are making, where, and roughly what you can spend.

  2. 02

    See the plan

    In seconds: the crew, kit, shoot days, deliverables and where the budget goes, as a lean, a standard and a premium version.

  3. 03

    Meet verified crew

    We check real filmmakers and suppliers against the plan and confirm who is free. Your shortlist arrives within 24 hours.

  4. 04

    Make it

    Book the team, shoot, and get the finished films. One plan carries the job from brief to delivery.

SC.03 · Your call on AI

You decide how much AI goes into the film.

Some productions must be fully authentic. Others gain from a generated shot or two. Set the level before you plan, and every crew suggestion, kit list and budget follows it.

AI plans the production.Real people are never shown saying or doing something they did not say or do.

  1. L.0

    No AI at all

    Real cameras, real people, a human edit and human captions. No generative AI anywhere in the film.

    Authentic
  2. L.1

    AI-supported VFX

    Clean-up, object removal, sky replacement, upscaling, AI-assisted grade and captions. No generated shots.

    Assisted
  3. L.2

    AI additional shots

    Generated cutaways, establishing, product and B-roll shots around real footage.

    Hybrid
  4. L.3

    Full AI video possible

    Whole generated sequences, with AI filmmakers in the team.

    Generative

SC.04 · The network

Every name on your shortlist is checked.

Directories ask which crew member you want. We start from what you are making, then check the people who can make it. Each profile says exactly what has been confirmed, so you know what you are relying on.

  1. Step 01Discovered

    We found the person or company and their work in a public source.

  2. Step 02Claimed

    They control their own profile and keep it current.

  3. Step 03Verified

    We checked who they are and what their profile says.

  4. Step 04Project verified

    A real production confirms they did the work.

  5. Step 05Availability verified

    They confirmed they are free on your dates.

The review that counts after every job: would you hire them again?

SC.05 · Works where you work

Plan a shoot from ChatGPT or Claude.

The planner runs inside the assistants your team already uses. Ask for a production plan in a chat and you get the same crew, kit and budget you see here, with a link to put the team together.

ChatGPT · Claude · Claude Code · Codex · any MCP client

YouPlan a 60 second launch film in London, £25k, no AI.

NeedToFilmCommercial, two shoot days. Producer and director, DP, 1st AC, gaffer, sound, hair and make-up. One cinema camera package, small lighting kit, two locations. Lean set-up about £24,000, within budget.

Find my team on needtofilm.com →

SC.06 · For filmmakers

For filmmakers, it starts with a real job.

We get in touch when a production matches your work: the role, the dates, the place. One click says you are available, you are busy, or who you would recommend. Your profile grows from the work you take.

Join the network
Starting in
London
Looking for
  • Producers and directors
  • Directors of photography
  • Camera and lighting crews
  • Sound mixers
  • Hair, make-up and styling
  • Editors, colourists and motion designers
  • AI filmmakers and generative VFX artists
  • Production companies and rental houses
Costs you
Nothing. You are paid for the work.

SC.07 · End slate

What are you making?