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NeedToFilm · Production planner
From brief to verified crew in 24 hours.
Describe the film, campaign or video you need and get a production plan straight away: crew, kit and budget. Then keep it, expand it with AI, or have a producer check it and line up real, verified crew within 24 hours.
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SC.01 · The position
CinematicFastAuthentic
You don't have to choose anymore.
The volume route
Thousands of generated UGC clips
Cheap and endless. Audiences have learned to scroll past AI slop in under a second, and it rarely sells.
The agency route
Six months for one film
Line up your team, the agency's team and a crew, then wait through rounds of edits. By release the video is already out of date.
NeedToFilm
We shrink production time
A plan for your shoot in minutes. A producer checks it and lines up verified crew within 24 hours. Every deliverable is planned before the shoot, so editing starts while you're still filming.
5,000+Videos produced
20M+Views
150+Video infrastructure projects deployed
OnMcCainComcastHyroxHuaweiNespressoand other global clients
0:27 · The process
From one sentence to a crew on set.
No sound needed
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SC.02 · How it works
Tell us what you are making. We work it out.
You do not need to know what a gaffer or a DIT does. The planner works out the crew, the kit and the budget around your idea, and a producer takes it from there.
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Describe it
A sentence, a script or a deck. Say what you are making, where, and roughly what you can spend.
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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.
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Meet verified crew
We check real filmmakers and suppliers against the plan and confirm who is free. Your shortlist arrives within 24 hours.
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Make it
Book the team, shoot, and get the finished films. One plan carries the job from brief to delivery.
Stage 02 · The plan branches
Every brief can be made more than one way. We show you which path works best.
Request
A launch film for a new running shoe, two London locations
Plan built · 4 paths priced
Path A
Book the crew yourself
Take the plan and the crew list and book them direct. You run the day.
Plan nowCrew rates only
Path BBest for this brief
We put it together
A producer books verified crew and kit and schedules the shoot around you.
Confirmed within 24 hoursPlan plus a producer
Two locations and moving shots need crew booked and a schedule that holds.
Path C
Nothing to book, nothing to schedule
Record when it suits you. Lighting, sound and the edit are handled for you.
Opening soonThe fastest route
Path D
Generated with AI
No shoot at all. Scenes are generated from your brief and labelled as generated.
DaysLowest cost per scene
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SC.03 · Your call on AI
You decide how much AI (if any!) goes into your production.
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.
C2PA verified · Captured, not generated
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No AI at all
Cinematic on its own: real light, real people, real moments
Provably real: a signed record shows nothing was generated
Everything is filmed on the day
Real performance · Set extension · Atmosphere
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AI-supported VFX
The same real performance in a grander world
Enhance or fix what the day gave you
Every change is listed in the file's record
Generated establishing shot
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AI additional shots
Aerials, vistas and product shots without another shoot day
Fewer locations to book
Generated shots are labelled as generated
Fully generated world
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Full AI video possible
Unlimited flexibility: any world, any effect
The lowest cost per scene
Reads as generated; not for testimonials
Real people are never shown saying or doing something they did not say or do.
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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.
Step 01Discovered
We found the person or company and their work in a public source.
Step 02Claimed
They control their own profile and keep it current.
Step 03Verified
We checked who they are and what their profile says.
Step 04Project verified
A real production confirms they did the work.
Step 05Availability verified
They confirmed they are free on your dates.
The review that counts after every job: would you hire them again?
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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.
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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 →
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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.
