The job comes in
A production company calls. A project opens: name, dates, crew, base.
Thelocman pulls location needs from the script, brings real place suggestions, and files every frame you shot in the field into the archive by itself in the evening. A location manager's whole job in one system.
A production company calls. A project opens: name, dates, crew, base.
A full script, a one-line brief or just a reference image. All three are valid input.
The system doesn't split scenes, that's the director's job. It pulls location needs from the script and gathers scattered scenes around one geographic centre.
Mood images and real locations marked separately, grouped by province. Ready to go to the producer.
Camera card or phone, route log, voice notes. In an emergency, a 24-hour share link.
Geotag, colour-correct, shrink below 1 MB, give it a smart name, upload to the archive. Done before you reach the hotel.
Map, sun and light times, distance and drive time, contacts, budget and currency, permit tracking, layout sketch.
Locations move to the general archive. Unique, searchable, permanent. Capital for the next project.
Suggesting twelve cities for twelve scenes is easy; it's also what sinks a production. Thelocman consolidates scenes geographically: the bridge in VFX, the HQ in a corner, the hill as the command post, all around one base.
A mood image is inspiration; it claims no location. A real location is really there and comes with its source. A deck that mixes the two sends the crew to a place that doesn't exist.
Import from the card, match locations, correct colour, resize the long edge to 2560, compress below one megabyte, name it smartly, upload to the archive. Your raw master stays on disk, there if you need a large print years later.
For every location: where the sun rises and where it hits that day, the distance and drive time to the nearest base, the owner's phone, the permit deadline, the rent and that day's exchange rate. Plus a layout sketch.
When a project wraps, its locations move to the general archive: with your own photos, measurements and contact book, searchable. Three years later the answer comes from your own fieldwork, not from Google.