Seven steps.
One evening.
From choosing the part to show, to the report on your desk. Your guests install nothing and make no account.
- —There is no Lodge app. A guest needs a browser and the email you invited.
- —The link alone opens nothing — entry is a six-digit code sent to their inbox.
- —Their name is on their screen, and they are told so.
- —Talk on the call you already use. Lodge holds the film, not the conversation.
What a guest actually does
Confirms who they are
One email, one click, about two minutes — and never again. Confirms their name and the browser they will watch in.
Opens the same link
Their room lives at one address. The address on its own opens nothing, so a forwarded link is useless to whoever receives it.
Is told their seat is ready
A check runs by itself and says plainly whether this browser will work. Nobody needs to know anything technical to find out they need a different one.
Types six digits
Sent to their inbox. On a device they have used before, they walk straight in — the code only appears on a machine Lodge has not seen.
Seven steps
Choose what they see
Drag across your film until the part you are willing to show is marked — a song, a scene, an act or the whole thing. Everything outside it fades back, still in your account and visibly not going.
Invite your viewers
Add people by name and email, and decide whether they are told the title in advance. Many hosts keep it back: a screening people go in blind to is one they turn up to on time.
Agree the time
Guests reply with the times that work, or suggest their own. Lodge settles it and sends a calendar invitation with no link in it to anything.
Prepare the clip
Lodge makes a separate clip containing only the part you chose. This is the step that makes the promise true — from here there is no full-length copy anywhere a guest could reach.
Check the seats
When each guest opens their room, their browser reports whether it can play. You see green, amber or red per person before you start, while there is still time to tell someone to switch devices.
Start the screening
A ten-second countdown while everyone’s player lines up, then the title — which, if you kept it back, is the first time anyone has heard it. Pause for everyone and the whole room stops on the same frame at once.
Let it close
Ten minutes’ warning on everyone’s screen, then the room goes dark and every viewer’s access ends at the same moment. A week later the clip is deleted.
The evening leaves a report behind
When the room closes, Lodge writes the screening report: who was invited, who accepted, exactly which minutes were shown, the name mark on each screen, when each person joined and left, how much of it each person watched, every message that was sent, and when each way back to the film was shut. Print it or keep the file. It is on your desk before anyone thinks to ask for it.