We write the must-have frames first: the still that prints, the shot the edit cannot live without. Everything after that is a bonus with a time attached.
Locations get a backup that is not ‘we will find a wall’. If the square is closed, the alley is already permitted.
Talent, catering, and camera department see the same document. Versioning a call sheet in three chats is how a lunch becomes a missed window.
On mixed stills/motion days the stills block is a named hour, not ‘we will grab it’. Grabbing is how the hero still is shot in leftover light.
Wrap includes a five-minute stills pull for social if the producer asked in the brief. It does not include a new concept invented at 18:40.
Digitwest produces commercial stills and branded films from Plzeň. Photography leads; motion follows the same key so a campaign does not split in public between a pack shot that looks like noon and a cut that looks like dusk. The rooms on Náměstí Republiky hold a north window, tabletop, and a colour desk. Clients review tethered stills and a calibrated picture in one visit. We travel in Czechia and nearby with a small crew; local support when a story needs more hands. Square light first. Bounce and a quiet key that match the sandstone, not a sunset someone remembered from a stock library. If the window dies we add a small key that mimics it. We do not start over with a second look. Finishing stays in the same building as the tabletop. Masters are named for the media plan. We keep a working project for the revision window written in the estimate, then an archive another team can open without a private scheme.