Prep notes
Makeup prep notes on every scene, ready for the test.
For hair & makeup continuity
Every look, matched. However long it's been, however it shoots.
Haystack is the continuity tool built for hair and makeup. Track every look a character wears, keep your reference and the products behind it in one place, and recreate it exactly, scene after scene, day after day.
- Works fully offline
- Reference from every angle
- Built with H&MU crews
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in the right order A bruise that ages through five colours. A cut that heals on a schedule the shoot ignores. Sweat, dirt, tears, a wig that has to sit exactly so. Hair and makeup continuity is a hundred tiny states that all have to land in the right order, even when the days don't.
LOOK NOTE
Bruise — day 3 colour
Cut — healing stage 2
wig: parting left
Built around the shoot
Your production, scene by scene
Every look, note and photo hangs off a scene, so nothing drifts. Sort by shoot date to match the call sheet, or by scene to follow the story. When the schedule jumps, Haystack holds the line.
- Shoot-date and script-day, side by side
- Out-of-order ready, built in
- Episodic productions, organised by episode
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Looks
Build a look once, carry it through
Set up each character's looks, then link them to every scene they appear in. Open a scene and see who's in it and exactly which look they're wearing. Take a character out of a scene and nothing's lost; put them back and their looks and notes are right there.
- Link a look to every scene it appears in
- See who's in a scene and which look they wear
- Removing is reversible, nothing is lost
The part you'll live in
Reference from every angle, pinned to the moment
Shoot from your phone on set and it lands keyed to the right scene, character and look. Capture the detail that decides a match (today's exact bruise colour, the parting, the level of dirt) in wear notes, and pin annotations straight onto the photo so the note sits where the eye needs it.
- Front, side, back, all in one place
- Pin annotations directly on the image
- Drag to reorder; your first frame is the key shot
- The whole history of a look, one tap away
Products & kit
Track the kit behind every look
Log the products and kit you reach for (shade, brand, where it came from), tie them to the characters who wear them, and pack your kit into boxes. Tag the pieces that matter with NFC and a tap opens the record. Recreate a look without second-guessing what you used.
- Products and shades, catalogued your way
- Pack and find kit by box
- NFC tags, one tap to the record
Minutes, not days
Start with scenes and characters already in place
Upload the script and Haystack pulls out the scenes and characters, so your look breakdown starts from something, not nothing. Review, adjust, done. New draft turns up? See exactly what changed.
- Scenes and characters, pulled from the script
- Review and adjust before it lands
- Re-import a new draft and see what changed
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Built for the set, not the office
Trailers, tunnels, a stage with zero bars. Haystack works offline and syncs the second you're back on signal, so logging a look never waits on reception. It keeps itself current in the background, then backs off to save your battery for the long days.
- 0 bars
- Still fully editable
- 100%
- Synced on reconnect
- seconds
- To pull any look
Offline queueNo signal
- on reconnect
Sc. 14 — Lead look
4 photos
- now
Sc. 22 — bruise note
edited
- waiting for signal
Sc. 31 — wig change
2 photos
“I used to scroll my own camera roll for twenty minutes to match a look. Now I search the scene and it's there, every angle.”
The smaller wins that add up
Less obvious, just as useful.
Bulk edits
Change a field across your kit when the brief shifts.
Archive, never lose
Archive characters, looks and kit without losing history.
Department-only views
Hide what's not yours, so makeup sees makeup.
Web and app
Web at the trailer, app at the chair, the same live data.
Printable reports
Print look and product reports when paper still rules.
To: Hair & Make up
From: Another Haystack
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