Intro to publishing
Most people on a production don't work in your project. They need the paperwork: the call sheet for tomorrow, the latest script pages, their sides. Publishing turns your working plan into fixed PDF documents you can send to them, and keeps a record of every version.
Publications
A publication is a snapshot of a document at the moment you publish it. It doesn't change when you keep editing the project. To update it, you publish a new revision, and FilmKit numbers each one. You can publish four kinds of documents:
- Call sheets: Published from a shooting day's call sheet, as a preliminary or final version.
- Script revisions: Colored revisions issued from a screenplay.
- Sides: The script pages for a shooting day, published from its call sheet.
- Shot lists: The project's shot list as a PDF.
See Publish and distribute documents.
The Publications page
Every project has a Publications page that lists everything published from it, grouped by kind, with the revision number, stage, and date. You can download the PDF of any revision from there. People who only have view access to a project also see this page, so it's the shared record of what's official.
Sending documents to cast and crew
When you send a call sheet or an issued script revision, each recipient gets an email with a private link. The link opens the latest revision, lets them download the PDF, and asks them to confirm that they received it. Recipients don't need a FilmKit account. You can see who opened and confirmed each call sheet. See Receive published documents.
Festivals
When the film is finished, you can submit it to festivals that list themselves in the FilmKit directory, and festivals can review what they receive. See Submit to and run festivals.