Building Better Tools for the Writer’s Room with Josh Kline
Description
We explore the world of script collaboration with Emmy-winning technologist and CEO of Scripto, Josh Kline. He shares how his early work with Digital Dailies revolutionized how directors review footage, and how those lessons now inform his work modernizing script collaboration. He explains the deep limitations of traditional formats like PDFs and highlights how platforms like Scripto bring real-time version control, security, and inter-operability into the writer’s room. From late-night TV to feature films, Josh talks about the collaborative demands of different production environments and how cloud-based workflows are streamlining everything from on-the-fly rewrites to executive approvals.
Josh also reflects on the growing role of automation and AI in the production process, emphasizing that while tools can accelerate workflows, human judgment remains irreplaceable.
About Wrapbook
Wrapbook is a smart, intuitive platform that makes production payroll and accounting easier, faster, and more secure. We provide a unified payroll platform that seamlessly connects your entire team—production, accounting, cast, and crew—all in one place.
Wrapbook empowers production teams to manage projects, pay cast and crew, track expenses, and generate data-driven insights, while enabling workers to manage timecards, track pay, and onboard to new projects from any device. Wrapbook brings clarity and dependability to production payroll, while increasing the productivity of your whole team.
For crew: The Wrapbook app eliminates the headaches of production payroll by providing a fast, transparent, and secure solution for workers to complete startwork, submit timecards, and track pay.
Trusted by companies of all sizes, Wrapbook powers payroll for some of the industry’s top production companies, including SMUGGLER, Tuff, and GhostRobot. Our growing team of 250+ people includes entertainment and technology experts from SAG-AFTRA, DGA, IATSE, Teamsters, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook, and more.
Wrapbook is backed by top-tier investors, including Jeffrey Katzenberg’s WndrCo, Andreessen Horowitz, and A* Capital.
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