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Commercial Production Template
Learn how to produce a commercial for broadcast television or web with this template from Jenny Napier, producer for Digital Kitchen.
Looking to produce a television commercial for your company? Hired by an agency or production company to produce a TV spot? First you need a plan.
This template will provide you with a complete roadmap, including pre-production, production and post-production, to take a professional commercial from concept to final delivery. Get started with a full commercial production calendar, professional folder structure, and documents such as a call sheet template, shot list template and more.
This template has been designed by Jenny Napier, a professional commercial producer for Digital Kitchen with over 15 years of experience.
Click Use Template to get started with this template today.
What is Included in this Commercial Template?
This template includes a full production timeline, including tasks for every step of production from start to finish.
The phases in this template include:
Creative Development
Budgeting
Casting
Location Scouting
Art & Wardrobe
Production
Post-Production
In addition, this template also includes a professional folder structure for organizing your documents, files and assets from pre through post, as well as document templates for shot lists, location scouts, call sheets and much more.
How to Use the Commercial Template
Upon opening the commercial template, you'll be presented with a fully built commercial project. You can then customize this project as needed to suit your unique project needs.
1. Setup Your Project
To get started, add your project name and company name, and then enter your project start date.
2. Review the Calendar
Once the project is setup, the entire calendar and task list will be auto-built based on your start date. Your calendar, along with all associated tasks, will be laid out for you to review.
3. Make Changes to the Commercial Template
You can then shift tasks on the calendar simply by dragging and dropping, adding or removing tasks, or making any other modifications based on the needs of your project.
4. Organize Your Documents and Assets
In the project sidebar, you'll find all of the pre-built phases, organized with subfolders to help you keep track of your documents, files and assets from the start to finish of your project.
5. Invite Your Team
Finally, start inviting your team and assigning them tasks to get the project kicked off.
Producing a Commercial with Assemble
Assemble enables producers to create a centralized hub to manage their entire project from start to finish - including calendars, task management, documents and asset management.
By using this commercial template, you'll get access to all of Assemble's powerful features so that you can not only set a project up in seconds, but keep production moving quickly and efficiently with our advanced collaboration tools built for producers.
Get started for free today by clicking Use Template and begin exploring all of Assemble's powerful features.