Never alone
A minor on set always has an open period of care. If it ever lapses, a critical alarm reaches the welfare worker within 5 minutes and the production coordinator within 15.
Minors on set · welfare & schooling
Every child on set, accounted for until pumpkin time.
PumpkinTime keeps the on-set record for child performers: who has them right now, how much school they have had today, when they need to eat and rest, and the moment they go home to a named guardian.
For productions carrying minors, and the studio teachers and welfare workers who look after them.
Maya, 12
Stage 4 · The Little Harvest
3:37:00
until pumpkin time
17:45 today
In care of
J. Ortiz · welfareR. Lin · studio teacher
School today
Rest break in 35 min
Goes home with Ellen R.
Pumpkin time is the moment a child’s working day has to end. PumpkinTime works it out for every minor, every day, and starts the clock the moment an adult takes custody of them.
The limits come from the production’s jurisdiction, the child’s age and whether they are in school, and they are frozen for the day once custody opens. Everything that happens after that is measured against them.
A day on set
One child. One day. Every hand-off on the record.
There is no call sheet to fill in. Things happen on set and people respond; PumpkinTime keeps up with them.
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Picked up
Custody opens with the driver. Her limits for the day are worked out from the state, her age and her schooling, then frozen. The clock starts.
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Lands on Stage 4
Care is confirmed with a named welfare worker. Her guardian gets a "day started" message.
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Class begins
The studio teacher starts a class timer. Until the teacher ends it, Maya can only be checked on, not moved.
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Class ends
145 minutes count toward today's 180. Blocks under the minimum do not count, and short blocks are never stitched together.
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Meal
Logged. Had it run late, a meal alarm would already be open with the right adult.
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Wrap
Work ends. Care does not: she is still someone's responsibility until a guardian has her.
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Released to Ellen
Only to an active, named guardian. Every period of care closes, handed to Ellen, with the time and who did it.
What it watches
Four things that cannot slip.
School, counted by the day
Instruction is measured per session day against the daily minimum, never averaged across a week. Short days are named. A capped bank carries good days forward to top up a short one.
Breaks and limits, watched
Meal, rest, hold time and portal-to-portal hours are checked on a heartbeat. As a child nears a limit, the adult who owns it hears about it first.
Released, never just sent home
A day can always end. Care only ends when a named guardian takes the child, and the record says who handed them over.
Who uses it
The adults around the child.
Studio teachers
Run the board: land minors, start and stop classes, log what was taught, and write the weekly academic report.
Welfare workers
The care provider of record. First to hear any alarm, and the one who checks in on a child at any time, even mid-class.
Production admins
Set up the production, its places and its team, invite families, and see every child on the day at once.
Guardians
See their own children only: when the day started, what school they got, the paperwork, and when they were released.
Minors never sign in.
A child has a record, not an inbox. Nothing is ever sent to a minor; anything meant for them goes to their guardians.
It alerts. People decide.
PumpkinTime does not run your set. It tells the right person, early, that a child needs a meal, a break, more school or a ride home, and it keeps the record that shows it happened.