{
  "meta": {
    "title": "FFILM.org production context",
    "contextPath": "/development",
    "developerPath": "/developer",
    "updated": "2026-04-04"
  },
  "creditPolicy": {
    "headline": "First come, first served — within each department",
    "rules": [
      "Credit order is chronological by confirmed commitment inside the same department (writers, camera, sound, post, production, art department, music, other).",
      "Signing up earlier in your lane secures a higher position in that department's block in the final crawl — not a global race across departments.",
      "Cross-department work still lists you once per department you materially contributed to, each ordered FCFS within that block.",
      "Producers may merge tiny same-day tie-breaks for readability; disputes default to timestamp of first written commitment in the project thread."
    ]
  },
  "productionQueue": [
    {
      "id": "discovery",
      "order": 1,
      "name": "Discovery & brief",
      "summary": "Intent, audience, tone, and constraints — what we're making and why.",
      "typicalRoles": ["Producer", "Director (early)", "Writer (research)", "Community liaison"]
    },
    {
      "id": "development",
      "order": 2,
      "name": "Development",
      "summary": "Bible, beat sheets, drafts — story and world before greenlight.",
      "typicalRoles": ["Showrunner / lead writer", "Writer's room", "IP / continuity", "Storyboard (early beats)"]
    },
    {
      "id": "preprod",
      "order": 3,
      "name": "Pre-production",
      "summary": "Scheduling, budget, locations, casting, shot design, tech scout.",
      "typicalRoles": ["Line producer", "1st AD", "Locations", "Casting", "DP", "Gaffer", "Sound designer (prep)", "Art director", "Costume", "H&M"]
    },
    {
      "id": "production",
      "order": 4,
      "name": "Production",
      "summary": "Principal photography / capture days — set discipline and dailies.",
      "typicalRoles": ["Director", "DP", "Camera dept", "Sound mixer & boom", "Script supervisor", "Grip / electric", "Art / props", "Stills / BTS"]
    },
    {
      "id": "post",
      "order": 5,
      "name": "Post-production",
      "summary": "Picture cut, sound edit, grade, VFX, delivery masters.",
      "typicalRoles": ["Editor", "Assistant editor", "Sound editor / mix", "Colourist", "VFX", "Composer", "Music supervisor"]
    },
    {
      "id": "delivery",
      "order": 6,
      "name": "Delivery & launch",
      "summary": "Accessibility passes, captions, platform specs, premiere and archive.",
      "typicalRoles": ["Post supervisor", "Online / mastering", "Distribution", "Marketing / social", "Accessibility"]
    }
  ],
  "departmentLanes": [
    "Writers & story",
    "Camera & lighting",
    "Sound",
    "Editorial & post",
    "Production / producing",
    "Art / costume / HMU",
    "VFX & graphics",
    "Music",
    "Other / generalist"
  ],
  "fitHints": [
    { "ifYouMention": ["write", "script", "story", "dialogue"], "stages": ["development", "preprod", "production"], "lanes": ["Writers & story"] },
    { "ifYouMention": ["camera", "dp", "dop", "focus", "grip"], "stages": ["preprod", "production"], "lanes": ["Camera & lighting"] },
    { "ifYouMention": ["sound", "boom", "mix", "audio"], "stages": ["preprod", "production", "post"], "lanes": ["Sound"] },
    { "ifYouMention": ["edit", "premiere", "davinci", "avid", "cut"], "stages": ["post"], "lanes": ["Editorial & post"] },
    { "ifYouMention": ["produce", "schedule", "budget", "locations"], "stages": ["discovery", "preprod", "production", "delivery"], "lanes": ["Production / producing"] },
    { "ifYouMention": ["art", "props", "set", "wardrobe", "costume"], "stages": ["preprod", "production"], "lanes": ["Art / costume / HMU"] },
    { "ifYouMention": ["vfx", "after effects", "compositing"], "stages": ["development", "post"], "lanes": ["VFX & graphics"] },
    { "ifYouMention": ["music", "score", "composer"], "stages": ["development", "post"], "lanes": ["Music"] }
  ],
  "claudeBrief": {
    "role": "You help FFILM.org (Welsh community film and digital storytelling, Upper Swansea Valley) place volunteers in an honest production queue.",
    "mustDo": [
      "Treat https://ffilm.org/development as the canonical written context if this JSON and the page disagree — prefer the page.",
      "Explain FCFS credits per department lane, not globally.",
      "Name the production stages in order and say which are most relevant to the volunteer today.",
      "Suggest one concrete next step (who to talk to, what to prepare, sample artefact).",
      "Stay grounded: no guarantees of paid work; community and credit order depend on actual contribution."
    ]
  }
}