NeedToFilm · Production planner

Get the video your business needs, without getting stuck in production.

Need a launch film, an ad or a founder story? Tell us in one sentence. We plan it, put verified crew on it and get it made.

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

SC.01 · Who we are

  • Film
  • Robotics
  • AI
  • Technology

NeedToFilm brings cinema's taste and storytelling together with the newest technology.

Our mission: help authentic content thrive in an age of AI slop and endless short-form noise that wears attention down.

SC.02 · 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 By release the video is already out of date.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

SC.03 · 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.

  1. Shot 01
    01

    Describe it

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

  2. Shot 02
    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. Shot 03
    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. Shot 04
    04

    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. Pick a starting point.

SC.04 · 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.05 · 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.

No AI at all: C2PA verified · Captured, not generated
C2PA verified · Captured, not generated
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No AI at all

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

  • Cinematic on its own: real light, real people, real moments
  • Provably real: a signed record shows nothing was generated
  • Trusted where it matters: testimonials, finance, leadership
  • Everything is filmed on the day

Real people are never shown saying or doing something they did not say or do.

SC.06 · End slate

What are you making?