BACKBONE Film 1.5 is a Filemaker Pro program for Film Production companies and certain Advertising Agencies‘ or larger client TV Production Departments, able to run cross-platform simultaneously over Windows and/or MacOS computers, speedy as heck in your company network .

BACKBONE Film 1.5 is a powerful database system for all aspects of the film production business, and the interlinking power of the system will make it literally the BACKBONE of your company.

Its modular design allows maximum quality of information management. Consider the following totally interlinked features:

• CONTACTS
• PERSONS
• DIRECTORS
Store all Contact-relevant information in the Contacts and Persons Bones. Keep track of all your Directors and their Films, their Showreels, their Mail and their Projects via the Director‘s Bone.

• PROJECTS
Manage your projects with the Projects Bone. Create Projects, view their Status at a glance. Create detailed Shooting and Post Production Schedules, shift those Schedules, item by item, or totally, backwards and forwards in time!!! View a Conflict Calendar with up to 5 selected Projects to sort out those nasty overlaps of availabilities. Print the Schedules, order from detailed lists all a Project’s Crew and Equipment, run all Documents related to your Projects, like Call Sheets, Contracts, Casting Lists etc., without opening another Program ever except your Budget.

• SHOTMAKER
Use the brand new ShotMaker to totally run the logisitcs of a shoot. ShotMaker will store your Script and your Locations, and you can create Scenes and link Scenes to Shots, including into each shot all the necessary items needed for any particular shot. You can link Shoot Days to Locations and Actors as well, thereby creating the ultimate Call Sheet and Shooting Schedule. ShotMaker will soon outdate all other Movie scheduling programs on the market.

• FILMS
Store any number of Films and screenshots in the Film Bone, watch the films you have stored on your server on the Film Bone as well.

• SHOWREELS
Create Showreels of all kinds from the Showreels Bone. This easy-to-use bone enables you to edit showreels for particular client's needs. See where the Reels have gone at a glance.

• PERSONAL PLANNER
Have all your To-Do's and Appointments at your fingertips with the Planner Bone. Project-related to-dos appear as Coloured blips in the Planner too, for all the Users working on the particular Project. The Planner has Daily, Weekly and Monthly views, and Contact or Project-related GO! Buttons attached, for speedy access to the specific people involved.

• MAIL
• MASS-MAIL
Write letters, faxes and e-mails from the Mail Bone. No external word program is needed. (Eudora Pro or Entourage are preferred as your default emailer) Use the Mass Mailer to send group mail as letter, fax or email to any kind of group one has searched out in the Contacts bone. These mails can have up to 3 attachments if sent as email.

• INVOICES
• DELIVERY NOTES
Outgoing Invoices and Delivery Notes are created in BACKBONE Film 1.5 as well. Alarms are available for overdue Invoices, and different terms of payment are easily set up for each client.

• SEARCH ENGINES
All lists of all Categories are easily accessed via 3 powerful Search Engines and all lists created from the Search modes are printable from any module in any order. This is a huge benefit when planning marketing trips.




BACKBONE Film 1.5 - the true power is revealed when it comes to linking information. The layout is simple and extremely user-friendly, especially for Users who don’t really enjoy symbols and icons. BACKBONE has labelled buttons which even beginners will love, and people who are not often in your company will benefit by not having to be taught how to use it. Sit down, be given a Password, get entered into a Work Group on the particular Project you are going to be working on, and GET ON WITH IT !!! Each User immediately has his or her own Personal Planner and all documentation and Mail is immediately labelled as written by the User. The new User is given the desired Security Level, and this prevents certain company-sensitive information (like Invoices) from being copied, viewed, or erased.

Various other features such as Intranet News and a Birthday-Reminder, as well as a Latest Showreels Window, which shows where the last showreels sent have gone, support your marketing activities very efficiently. Instant access to the Internet via hotlinking www Website buttons on the Contacts Bone is also a feature of BACKBONE Film 1.5.

As BACKBONE Film 1.5 runs best inside a company’s computer network, and everybody in your company will benefit from sharing the constantly up-dated information. No special Saving is needed for your documents. FileMaker needs no special “Save As..” function – simply clicking out of a document immediately saves it...making instruction easier for new Users.

BACKBONE Film 1.5 has been developed with the Know-how of a Film Production Company and the experience of Filemaker Pro experts. It is a cross-platform database for both Macintosh and Windows. Same data at the same time on different computers and platforms.

Shared knowledge = higher efficiency.