Studios or Production Companies choose Engine
Primarily to contract freelance crew members to their projects.
To accept an offer to work on a project who are using Engine, you'll need your own Engine account.
You use that account to save your personal startpack information & attachments once, and re-use it to join future projects.
You'll never complete a start form again!
Engine offers additional services
Engine offers additional services
A project can choose to add on:
Timecards - record & approve crew working hours, with calculated overtime & penalties
Send - aka 'Distribution'. Manage groups and securely share watermarked documents
Diversity - anonymous surveys entirely controlled by the Company
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The contracting process
Project sends the crew member an Offer via Engine
Crew member receives an email
If crew member has an existing Engine account, they log in
If crew member doesn't have an Engine account, they follow these simple steps to quickly create their account
Check the Startpack is correct
In order to accept the Offer (be contracted to the project, start work and be paid), Crew member must:
Complete and check that their startpack contains up-to-date information (latest address, bank, vehicle, passport etc)
Click UPDATE on each tab you edit in order to save changes
Check the Offer is correct
Check that the Offer is to their satisfaction (check Start date, Rate, Allowances, eta plus Engagement type)
NOT ACCEPT the offer if it is not correct
Use the links to phone or email the project to discuss the changes required
Closely read the 'Accept offer' popup confirmation
Do not proceed if Offer or Startpack is incorrect
The information in the Startpack at the point the crew member clicks 'Accept offer' is used to write the contract & other documents.
If you proceed it will mean that documents which contain errors will be emailed to you every other day until you sign or decline.
If the information is not correct, click 'Cancel' or 'View startpack' to go back and update your Startpack
When happy to proceed, tick the box and then click 'Accept offer'
Contract documents are created
The Contract and other documents are populated with the relevant information from 1. The Offer, 2. The Project settings, 3. The Crew member's startpack
The documents are sent to the pre-determined signing chain (configured here), using Docusign.
You don't need a Docusign account to sign. You are emailed a link which opens the documents in Docusign (no log in required).
You are prompted to read and sign (pick a signature) everywhere required. The real 'signature' is the unique electronic transaction behind the scenes.