CineLog’s Cast and Crew feature is designed to manage team collaboration securely. Organize your roster in the industry-standard hierarchy, add your own custom roles where the standard list falls short, number your cast for call sheets, and control who has access to your project data.
Industry Standard Hierarchy
Organizes all members into a 3-level structure (Group → Department → Role) reflecting how real productions staff. When the standard list doesn’t have the role you need, create a custom one — it becomes available across your whole workspace.
Intelligent Role Planning
Start delegating unassigned Vacant Slots during pre-production without needing to know exactly who you’re hiring yet. The Script Breakdown can create numbered Talent slots for your characters automatically.
Cast Numbers & Characters
Every Talent slot carries a cast number and can be linked to a character from the breakdown. The numbers print on call sheets, and dragging cast rows renumbers the whole cast in order.
Role-Based Access Control
Share your vision securely. Control what each role is allowed to access across your project, ensuring the right people see the right information.
Dual Perspectives
Quickly sort your network via the visual department Kanban board, or cycle through your global unified Contacts rolodex list.
Planning Your Crew (Vacant Slots)
You don’t need a single contact in your rolodex to begin staffing. Add standard industry roles (e.g. “Key Grip”) to create a Vacant Slot. Once you hire someone, simply assign an existing or newly-invited contact to the slot. The role you assigned is then remembered on that contact for future projects.
If the role you need isn’t in the list, type it into the role search field and pick Create ”…” as a custom role. Custom roles belong to your workspace, so every project in it can use them, and they gather in their own Custom department at the end of the board. See Managing Cast & Crew for the details.
Cast Numbers & Characters
Talent slots carry a cast number — the number the call sheet and the Day Out of Days use. The Script Breakdown creates numbered slots for your characters automatically, or you set numbers by hand on the slot’s Character section, which also links the slot to a character (“Jane Doe as MARIA”). Press and hold a cast row and drag it to reorder — the whole cast renumbers to match the new order, Talent first, then Background.
Dual Views of Contacts
Working on a phone or a large monitor? Pick your view. The Cast and Crew View gives you a Kanban-style board representing department slots (e.g., Camera -> Grip -> Key Grip). The Contacts View acts as a flat, simple rolodex of your contacts natively scoped across your entire workspace.
Granular Project Access & Invitations
Assigning a contact to a project role automatically sends them an email invitation, setting their access to pending until they accept. They get only the permissions their role grants, and CineLog intelligently resolves individual overrides against departmental defaults so you can confidently adjust an individual’s scope. Use the Intent Toggle to turn access off for contacts who should stay on call sheets only.