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Location Scouting Software For Film & TV

We help film and video studios streamline their location scouting process by giving them a suite of location scouting tools designed to make the location scouting process more collaborative and efficient.


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Store all of your location scouting work in one central directory and embed our location scouting software on your own production studio’s website.
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Production Software That Organizes Your Locations

Store all of your location scouting work in one central platform.

Your film and video locations are your stage. Locations can make or break a production. There is a lot that goes into selecting ideal locations. You need to consider sound, pricing, dimensions, electrical capacity, design, lighting and much more. Stencil helps you manage your production studio’s locations in one central platform.

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Location Scouting Tools

Stencil comes with many built-in location scouting tools that allow you to centralize your location scouting efforts within one application. 

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Link Locations to Projects

Each project will require their own locations. Within Stencil you can link any project to your directory of already added locations. This can be a huge time saver.
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Add Stylish Interactive Maps

The location scouting tools within Stencil come with the ability to add maps. We’ve ensured the built-in maps within Stencil are not only useful, but also stylish.

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Upload Location Images

You can upload images when adding new listings to your location scouting directory. 

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Location Directory

Admins within Stencil can create a central location scouting directory where they can store locations, images and addresses to be re-used.

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Link Locations to Project Scenes

Each scene within your film, documentary, series, commercial or music video will require their own location. Stencil lets you link your scenes to locations.

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Link Locations to Call Sheets

Your cast and crew need to be kept in the loop regarding when and where daily filming is taking place. Stencil allows you to automatically add location details to call sheets.

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Automate Call Sheet Location Details

Automatically add location details to call sheets when sending them out.

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All-In-One Film Production Software

Stencil comes will all of the tools you need to manage your film production studio. We help you manage storytelling, budgeting, casting, location scouting, storyboarding and so much more!


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Location Scouting Tools With Team Collaboration

Finding the best locations for your productions is of paramount importance.

Stencil comes with location scouting tools built into our film production management software. Our location scouting tools are collaborative meaning that multiple members of your production can be granted access to work with the locations of a film or video project.

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Location Scouting Tools With Images & Video Tours

Allow your location scouts or location managers to upload video tours of the locations they’ve found

Within Stencil, your location scouts or location managers can add location video tours to each new location added within a project. This will allow other members of your team (including directors, producers and cinematographers) to login and view detailed information about each location.

Modern & Beautiful Location Maps 

Each time you add a new location to your project, the location will show up on a beautiful embedded map

Stencil will figure out your locations latitude and longitude coordinates and pin your locations on a stylish map to the right of your location listings. Each map marker can be clicked on to bring up the details of any listing.

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Customizable & White Label Location Software

You can make Stencil’s location scouting software your own by branding it match your brand’s colors.

You can embed Stencil’s location software (as well as all of our other production tools) on your own film or video production website and change the colors to match your brand’s colors.

Location Scouting Tools: Permissions & Restrictions

Within Stencil you can set user permissions to grant read, write or edit access to your location scouting tools.

You likely won’t require that all members of your film, documentary, music video or commercial production to have access to your film’s location scouting software. For this reason, you can set your users roles to accordingly based on the level of access you want to grant to each user.

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A Small Price to Pay to Create Better Films

Our film production management software was designed by filmmakers for filmmakers. All of the tools built into the software are designed to help you create higher quality films. Subscribing to Stencil is an investment in your film production studio, not an expense.

Sterling, Stencil Developer

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FAQ

Still have a few last questions before taking stencil for a test drive?

We’ve tried to make Stencil as easy to use and user-friendly as possible. However, we’ve included an FAQ to the right to answer the most common questions we receive.

What's the cost?

A full featured version of Stencil is free to try for 7 days (without a credit card). After 7 days, if you want to keep using the software, the cost is as low as $99 / month.

Can I suggest a new feature?

Yes please! We want to make Stencil as powerful of a film production aid as possible. if you have ideas you can simply click on “suggestion box” in the left sidebar.

Are there contracts?

No. There are no contracts. Our pro members pay as a little as $99 / month. If you ever want to cancel you can do so in one click on your “account settings” page.

Can I use it for casting crew and actors?

Yes. Each of our paid plans come with our casting tool built in. Simply look for the plan that has the usage limits that you require.

Do you offer offline access?

No we don’t offer offline access. Currently you must have an internet connection to connect to Stencil. We are primarily a web application since most production work is best done collaboratively and live.

Who owns the content I create?

You do. We claim no rights whatsoever to the work you create within Stencil.

Can I whitelable Stencil?

Yes. All of our plans come with the ability to embed Stencil on your own film studio’s website. You can also change the colors to match your film studio’s brand. your entire team / castings etc can all be managed from your own domain.

I need help putting Stencil on my studio website.

We’d be happy to help. Simply click on “contact us” in the sidebar and let us know what you need. There is no cost for this service.

I have a question

If you have a question that’s not covered on our website, simply reach out to us by clicking on “contact us” in the left sidebar.

Is your product for indie filmmakers or studios?

We built Stencil to handle our own studio needs. Therefore, it’s primarily built to handle the needs of many different types of production studios working on various project types (i.e. films, documentaries, commercials, music videos etc.). However, solo filmmakers also use our software to manage smaller productions.

How can I learn more about your company?

Visit our “contact us” page in the sidebar to learn more about us.

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