Location management software - scouting, permits and travel.

Scouting, permits, logistics and travel - mapped, with sun-path and carbon built in. Locations autoseed from the breakdown, INT/EXT with day-night and a scene count.

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The Locations app for Origin: Ascension with tiles reading 17 total locations, 3 scouting, 14 confirmed, 14 geocoded, 0 permitted and 0 rejected, a second row showing 14 of 17 agreements signed, 8 days booked from the shoot-day spine, £519,650 of fees tracked across shoot, prep and strike and 14 of 17 permits cleared; below, a card per location with its thumbnail, status and address, from Earth, Moon and Space still scouting to the Sumerian City, the Alien Mothership and Origin Studios stages confirmed and mapped.
The Locations app's location edit modal for Human Body at Origin Studios, Water & FX Tank Stage, Leavesden, marked confirmed, with actions for the agreement, a print sheet and a sun and golden hour lookup, tabs for Details, Scene Dressing, Staging & Lighting, Logistics & Permits, AI Reference and Moodboard, a tile picture uploader, and fields for location name, status, address, location type, category, a £12,800 day rate, unit base and parking, power and amenities.
The Locations app's Location Map with tiles for 17 locations in the project, 14 on the map at 82% geocoded, 3 not geocoded and invisible to the map and route, and 3 with no address set; below, a Location Plot showing 14 geocoded locations in company-move order on a map of the London and Home Counties area, with clustered pins for Human Body, Origin Studios stages A and B, the unit base at Pinewood and the production office, joined by a dashed route line and an 'open the whole route in Maps' action.
Locations
Every location in the film with its status, its address and its picture: 17 locations, 14 confirmed, 14 geocoded, 14 of 17 agreements signed, 8 days booked from the shoot-day spine and £519,650 of fees tracked across shoot, prep and strike.

What's inside Locations

Location management and scouting.

  • The nearest A&E is a required field - a location without one is flagged as unsafe to call sheet, in red, before the sheet can go out
  • Travel matrix - estimated distance and time between every pair of locations, with a fuel calculator that turns the company move into litres, cost and truck-kilometres
  • Company-move carbon pushed into the production carbon model, which otherwise defaults transport to zero and quietly excludes the largest line on most shoots
  • Permits tracked per location with status, and a map that plots every geocoded location in company-move order
  • Interactive map with pins for every scouted location
  • Permit status chips - click-to-cycle between pending, approved, expired, rejected
  • AI Artist location concept renders - interior, exterior, day, night, weather
  • Insurance, contact, fee tracking with 30-day expiry alerts
  • Tech-scout photo galleries with annotations + lightbox EXIF
  • Company-move distances auto-calculated for the schedule (travel matrix)
  • Scene-to-location linking with reverse lookup
  • Connected to the Locations + Permits Directory - find vetted spaces with permit timelines and rate cards in one place
  • One-click KML export for Google Earth + location maps pasted into call sheets
Get started Replaces: Legacy location-management apps and map screenshots and spreadsheets

The pipeline

Where Locations sits in the production flow.

Where the production actually happens. Locations sits between the breakdown's INT/EXT extraction and the call sheet's daily address. Every confirmed location flows automatically to the call sheet, the schedule's company-move logic, and the producer's risk dashboard.

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This app

Locations

Owned by: Location Manager + 1st AD

Feeds downstream into

Scout and secure

Know the light before you sign.

Before you commit to a location you already know where the sun lands at call time, how far the unit has to move and what the day costs the planet. The recce facts travel with the address, not in someone's notebook.
Locations app for StoryboardCanvas film production software - Location management and scouting.

DollyAI™ in this app

AI commands wired into Locations.

A few of the 200+ DollyAI commands across the suite, here in Locations. Every one shows its credit cost before you commit, and every response is anchored in your real project - not a generic prompt.

Concept render

25 cr

Send the location's notes + scout photos to the AI Artist for a style-locked concept render - any aspect ratio, any time of day.

Permit risk scorer

2 cr

Reads the location's permit status + jurisdiction + scout timeline + flags shoots at risk of going live without a valid permit.

Travel-matrix optimiser

3 cr

Re-orders shoot days to minimise total company-move time across the schedule.

Frequently asked

Common questions about Locations.

Can I track multiple permit statuses per location?

Yes - each permit row carries its own status chip (pending / approved / expired / rejected) and expiry date with 30-day alerts surfaced on the producer dashboard.

Does the travel matrix know about real driving distances?

Yes - distances + drive times auto-calculate between every scouted pin pair. The day-order optimiser reads from it to minimise total company-move time across the schedule.

Can the AI Artist generate location concept renders before I scout?

Yes - per-location Send to AI Artist generates a style-locked concept render of any location at any time of day. Pre-visualise interior, exterior, day, night, weather before scouting day.

Can locations export as KML for Google Earth?

Yes - one-click KML export ships all scouted pins with metadata. Plus a per-location embed lands on every call sheet PDF.

The Promise

Locations is on every tier.

No locked features, no Pro-only exports, no surprise paywalls. Every Locations tool on this page ships on every plan - Hobbyist to Enterprise.

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More in the suite

Works with every app around it.

See it for yourself

Step inside a real production, completely free.

Open the actual software on Origin: Ascension, a finished short film, and explore every app exactly as the crew left it. Read the script, walk the boards, open the budget, print the call sheet. Fully read-only, with no sign-up. Nothing you touch is saved.

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Live demo · Origin: Ascension
The AI Artist app in the free demo, generating an Origin: Ascension storyboard frame in the project's locked house style.
The Draw studio in the free demo, painting over an Origin: Ascension storyboard frame on the GPU canvas.
The Animate app in the free demo, playing back the timed Origin: Ascension animatic.
The Call Sheet app in the free demo, showing a finished Origin: Ascension shoot-day call sheet.

Script · breakdown · boards · animatic · call sheets · budget

The demo is a view-only copy shared for exploration. Some features need a paid subscription to run.

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