The craft
Why the tools look the way they do
Every surface in a production office has a hundred years behind it. Here is the craft: what each tool is, why it works, and what Lunita does with it.
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The Stripboard
Why film schedules are still made of strips: the century-old production board, and how a modern stripboard moves them for you.
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The Day-Out-of-Days (DOOD)
The studio-era grid that prices your calendar: cast against shoot days, and why the Hold row is the one that matters.
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The Call Sheet
The industry's daily contract of record: one page that ends every argument on the day, and why it goes out on paper.
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The One-Liner
The whole shoot, one line per scene, in shooting order: the printable digest of the stripboard you can read in an elevator.
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The Daily Production Report (DPR)
The day's sworn testimony: scheduled versus shot, hours, meals, penalties, and why clean DPRs get a production financed twice.
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The Budget Topsheet
The first page of every film budget for fifty years: the whole picture by account, standardized so any financier reads it in thirty seconds.
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The Script Breakdown
The bridge between story and logistics: reading every scene for what it needs, and where a script stops being literature and starts being a plan.
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Make the movie. Luna Manager runs the office.
Bring a script, or just an idea of one. Luna Manager turns it into a schedule, a budget, and a call sheet your crew can confirm tonight.
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