The third major improvement is all about the departments. In the past StudioBinder used to provide a single grid of all of your talent crew extras and clients all mixed together.
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In the new StudioBinder we break our crew into departments for you automatically. Best of all if you go to a call sheet page they’ll also be grouped in exactly the same way.
So if I go to an existing call sheet, and you can see I’ve added a bunch of contacts here, and if I scroll down to crew they will be bucketed correctly for me.
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Now, again, I didn’t have to do anything. This was all laid automatically. This makes it much more intuitive to not just to create a call sheet but to be able to navigate and read the call sheet.
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Let’s say you want to modify the positions ordering or department names. Take for example, this one here that says Agency. Say I want to replace Agency with the name of my company. If you go to your Manage page, you’ll see a new Departments section where you can rename and reorder departments and positions in any way that you like.
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I’m going to go ahead and rename Agency to the name my production company. We’ll call this “Gravity Productions,” and let it save. Then, when I go back to the same call sheet, I’ll scroll down to the Crew section here. Instead of seeing Agency you can now see that it shows Gravity Productions.
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If you don’t like department names, positions or ordering, you can customize your default settings and from there on out it’s personalized for you.
