Hi Product Hunt, I'm Erik, a working television director in Germany. I've directed comedy series like Pastewka, Sketch History and Ladykracher, and I co-created a children's character called Bernd das Brot. About twenty years on set. Blocking apps exist. I used them for years, and they all stop at the same place: right after the blocking. The shot list came out flat in scene order, although you shoot by camera position, so I re-sorted it by hand every time. There were no time estimates, so it was never really a schedule. And on the shoot day itself none of them helped, because there was nothing to tick off and a white screen is unusable on a blacked-out stage. The app stayed in prep and paper came to set. So I built the second half. In Back-to-One you place actors, cameras, lights and walls on a top-down canvas, and the same setup generates the shot list, an animated playback of the blocking and a viewfinder preview in your shooting format. Move a camera and the list updates; edit the list and the canvas follows. The shot list is grouped by camera setup, so it reads in the order you actually shoot. Every shot carries a time estimate with totals per setup and per day, which makes it a schedule you can argue about with your first AD. Shots get ticked off live on set, and full-screen, dim and red-light modes keep it readable in the dark. A few things underneath: field of view computed from real sensor sizes and focal lengths across six formats including anamorphic, a 180-degree checker that flags axis breaks during prep instead of in the edit, real sun position for exterior shoot dates, and script import from FDX or PDF that builds the project scene by scene. Out the back come set PDFs per camera position, call sheets, lighting plots and the shot list as PDF, Excel or CSV. It's Apple-only on purpose: iPad and Mac, synced and shared through iCloud, with no server of mine anywhere in the product, no account and no tracking. Unreleased scripts stay in your own iCloud. German and English throughout, including the exported paperwork. Free to download with a 7-day full trial, then EUR 8.99/month, EUR 89.99/year, or EUR 199.99 once for lifetime. I'd genuinely love feedback from people who block for a living. Where does the tool stop and the paper start for you? I'll be here all day. https://back-to-one.de

Back-to-One

Blocking apps stop after the blocking. This one doesn't.

Blocking apps stop after the blocking. This one doesn't.