Cinella turns a brief into a full production day: call sheet, run of day, shot list, kit list and a clean branded schedule your client will love. Built for the crew of one to three, not the film set of fifty.
Call sheet software is built for productions with a 1st AD, a cast list and a props department. You're two people, a van and a client who wants the schedule by Friday.
Every shoot starts with copying last month's doc, breaking the formatting, and forgetting to update one call time that someone will absolutely notice at 7am.
StudioBinder starts at $42/month and greets you with script imports and cast breakdowns. You need a run of day and a kit list, not a production office.
Your client asks what time to arrive. You screenshot half a spreadsheet, crop out the crew phone numbers, and hope it looks professional. It doesn't.
Give Cinella your call and wrap time and it generates the whole day: crew call, rig, shooting blocks, a sensibly placed lunch, pickups, de-rig, wrap. Edit from a smart starting point instead of a blank page.
One shoot, two documents. The crew sees everything: phones, kit, shots, internal notes. Your client gets a clean branded schedule with none of it. Sent as a link, it makes you look like a bigger production company than you are.
Clients judge you on the experience around the shoot as much as the footage. A branded, professional schedule link is the cheapest way to look like the premium option you're charging as.
Tick off shots live on the day. Load your kit list from a template so the gaffer tape never gets forgotten. Every client gets a page with their shoot history and total booked value. Duplicate last month's retainer shoot and you're 90% done.
Flip into Set Mode and Cinella knows what time it is: your current schedule block highlighted, a countdown to wrap, and a shot list you tick off at arm's length. It's the screen that lives on your phone on set.
Every shoot gets a secure link. Your client sees the schedule, where to be, who they'll meet, and your insurance documents, and can send you briefs, logos and POs. One tap confirms the day, and you see it instantly. All under your branding.
Generate branded invoices straight from the day fee, with your logo, bank details and numbering. Statuses track draft, sent and paid, and overdue invoices flag themselves. The whole job, from call sheet to getting paid, in one place.
StudioBinder and SetHero are genuinely good at what they do: running film sets. If you have a cast, an AD and production reports, use them. If you're a small crew shooting brand content, you're paying for a production office you'll never walk into.
| Cinella | StudioBinder | SetHero | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Built for | 1-3 person commercial crews | Film & TV productions | Film sets & ADs |
| Auto-generated run of day | Yes | Manual build | Manual build |
| Branded client schedule view | Yes | Crew-focused | Crew-focused |
| Kit list templates | Yes | No | No |
| Scripts, cast & production reports | No, on purpose | Yes | Yes |
| Price | £12–£15/month | From $42/month | Film-set pricing |
£15/month at launch. Founding members lock £12 forever. 14-day free trial, no card required.
Call sheet and production day software for small video crews. Enter your shoot details once and it generates your call sheet, run of day, shot list, kit list and a clean client-facing schedule. One place instead of four documents.
They're built around film sets: scripts, cast breakdowns, production reports. Cinella deliberately does less, because a two-person brand shoot needs less, and charges a fraction of the price for it.
Cinella is built by a working UK production company that got tired of rebuilding the same Google Doc before every shoot. Every feature exists because it was needed on a real job first.
The timed schedule for your shoot: crew call, setup, shooting blocks, lunch, pickups, de-rig, wrap. Cinella builds one automatically from your call and wrap times, then you tweak it.
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Founding members get access first and lock £12/month for life; the price at public launch is £15. Join the waitlist and you'll be at the front of the queue.