Digital Platforms
Digital collaboration platforms can reduce the need for in-person meetings, travel, and printed materials. When used in place of physical meetings, these tools can contribute to lower transport-related emissions.
The platforms listed here are included for their role in enabling remote collaboration, not for environmental certification or sustainability claims at a company level.
Google Meet is a web-based video conferencing and collaboration tool that allows teams to hold virtual meetings, share documents, and communicate in real time.
In the film and TV industry, it functions as a remote production coordination tool, helping producers, crew, and sustainability officers connect efficiently across different locations — reducing travel, paper use, and overall production emissions.
Zoom
Zoom is a virtual communication and video conferencing tool that enables real-time meetings, collaboration, and training sessions online.
In the film and TV industry, it serves as a remote coordination and pre-production tool, allowing teams to conduct creative meetings, casting sessions, sustainability briefings, and cross-department check-ins without the need for travel — reducing costs, time, and carbon emissions.
WhatsApp is a digital communication and collaboration tool — specifically, a mobile messaging platform that enables instant text, voice, video, and file sharing.
In the context of film and TV production, it functions as a real-time coordination tool that streamlines communication between departments, replacing paper call sheets, printed memos, and unnecessary in-person meetings.
Microsoft Teams is a digital collaboration and communication platform that combines chat, video meetings, file sharing, and project management tools in one workspace.
In the film and TV industry, it serves as a centralised production management tool, allowing producers, departments, and sustainability officers to coordinate remotely, share documents securely, and reduce paper use and travel — supporting a more efficient and sustainable production workflow.
iCloud is a cloud-based storage and file-sharing tool developed by Apple that allows users to securely store, sync, and access data across multiple devices.
In the film and TV industry, it functions as a digital asset management tool, enabling productions to share scripts, call sheets, photos, and sustainability documents without printing or physical transfers — reducing paper waste, travel, and hard-drive duplication while supporting efficient, low-carbon workflows.
Google Calendar is a digital scheduling and time-management tool that allows users to plan, share, and coordinate events online.
In the film and TV industry, it serves as an organisational and production-planning tool, helping producers, sustainability officers, and crew manage shoot schedules, meetings, and travel efficiently — reducing printed call sheets, miscommunication, and unnecessary travel, thereby supporting a more sustainable workflow.
