Choose the material
Build a board from one shooting draft or combine scripts and episodes that will shoot together.
Film production scheduling
Scheduling
Turn broken-down scenes into shoot days, compare the needs of each setup, and keep cast, sets, page count, timings, and department requirements visible while the board changes.
Schedule one script or several episodes, mark working and non-working days, watch for availability conflicts, and carry the locked day into breakdown reports, sides, and call sheets.
Shooting ScheduleProd Start · Aug 18
24INT. MOTEL ROOMNIGHT · 2 3/8
25EXT. MOTEL PARKING LOTNIGHT · 1 1/8
31EXT. BUS TERMINALDAWN · 3/8
END OF SHOOTING DAY 43 7/8 pages
From breakdown to shooting order
Make the board from the production information already in the scenes
Select the scripts or episodes for the schedule and bring their scene strips onto one board. The scene number, slugline, INT/EXT, day/night, set, one-liner, page count, cast, breakdown elements, and shot list remain tied to the strip.
Lay out the strips
Drag scenes into shooting order, place EODs, and use banners for moves, units, notes, or production events.
Test the days
Review pages, timings, cast, sets, availability warnings, and department requirements before holding the order.
Issue the plan
Print the stripboard, breakdowns, or DOOD and use the scheduled day for sides and call sheets.
The AD's working board
Tools for building and revising the shooting order
Move quickly on the board without losing the details that determine whether a day is workable.
Drag-and-drop stripboard
Move one strip or a selected group into shooting order and rearrange the board as production conditions change.
Shoot-day dividers
Insert End Of Day strips to establish shoot days, dates, and the page count carried by each day.
Board banners
Add colored banners for company moves, meal notes, units, travel, rehearsals, or any event the board needs to show.
Boneyard
Keep scenes off the active shooting order without losing them, then return them to the board when they are ready to place.
Multi-pass strip sorting
Sort ascending or descending by scene number, set, day/night, or INT/EXT, with more than one sorting condition.
Editable strips
Correct INT/EXT, day/night, set, one-liner, length, and estimated duration directly on the working board.
Strip timings
Enter scene durations and read the scheduled time as the day builds, alongside screenplay page counts.
Availability warnings
Flag conflicts when cast, background, vehicles, props, costume, animals, or other required elements are unavailable.
Breakdown and shot list
Open the scene breakdown, department elements, screenplay scene, or planned coverage without leaving the stripboard.
Detail and simple views
Show a full production strip or a compact line, with optional warnings, cast IDs, timings, breakdown, and shot-list controls.
Undo and redo
Step backward or forward through local board changes while trying a new shooting order.
More than one schedule
Keep alternate boards, identify the current schedule, and assign its production color while versions are being compared.
Production calendar
Make dates on the board mean the dates production can work
Establish prep start, first day of principal photography, and wrap. Mark weekly off days and individual holidays so the calendar advances shoot days around the production's actual working pattern.
- Prep start, production start, and wrap dates.
- Recurring weekly off days.
- Individual holidays and non-working dates.
- Shoot-day dates generated from the working calendar.
Prep · Aug 4Photography · Aug 18Wrap · Sep 12
MONTUEWEDTHUFRISATSUN
18Day 119Day 220Day 321Day 422Day 523OFF24OFF
Three production views
Read the same schedule as a board, a calendar, or a day-out-of-days
Each view answers a different production question while staying tied to the current shooting schedule.
Stripboard
Read shooting order, strip colors, page count, timings, cast IDs, scene requirements, banners, and EODs in the format used to build the schedule.
Month view
See shoot days and pages across the calendar, then filter the month by scene or by a selected production element.
Day-out-of-days
Read start, work, finish, hold, idle, rehearsal, and travel markings with work, hold, travel, and total-day counts.
CAST1819202122TOTAL
1. AVASWWHF5
2. BELLHOPSF2
3. DRIVERTHSWF5
Departmental day-out-of-days
Track more than cast work days
Build a DOOD for the selected department and add hold, idle, rehearsal, or travel days where the shooting order alone does not tell the whole story.
- Automatic start, work, and finish markings from scheduled scenes.
- Manual hold, idle, rehearsal, and travel markings.
- Worked, held, travel, and total-day counts.
- Department selection for the production elements being tracked.
Production reports
Print the board the production meeting needs
Prepare a stripboard, scene or shoot-day breakdown, or DOOD. Narrow reports to a script, episode, scene, shoot day, department category, or production tag before they go into the binder or department meeting.
- Stripboard by the full schedule or selected shoot day.
- Breakdowns by scene or shoot day.
- All departments or selected categories and tags.
- DOOD output for a selected department.
- Letter, legal, or A4 paper sizes with per-day page breaks.
REPORTStripboard
FORShooting Day 4
CATEGORIESCast · Props · Vehicles
PAGESStart each day on a new page
PAPERLetter · Portrait
From stripboard to set
The scheduled day keeps working after the board is locked
Scenes do not need to be re-entered when they move from the schedule into daily production paperwork.
Script breakdown
Bring scene strips, cast, sets, page counts, and department requirements from the breakdown onto the board.
Shot Lister
Open the planned coverage for a scheduled scene while judging how much work belongs in the day.
Sides
Pull the screenplay pages for the scenes selected on a shoot day.
Call sheets
Start the day's call sheet from its scheduled scenes, cast, locations, and production date.
Production scheduling FAQ
Questions from the AD department
Can several scripts or episodes share one board?
Yes. Select multiple scripts or episodes and schedule their scene strips together on one production board.
Can I keep alternate schedules?
Yes. Create more than one schedule, identify the current board, and use schedule colors to distinguish versions.
What can appear on a strip?
Scene and episode number, INT/EXT, day/night, set, one-liner, pages, cast IDs, timing, warnings, breakdown elements, and shot-list access.
How are off days handled?
Set recurring weekly off days and individual holidays in the production calendar alongside prep, photography, and wrap dates.
Does the schedule show availability problems?
Yes. Strip warnings identify required cast or department elements that are marked unavailable on the scheduled date.
What schedule paperwork can I print?
Print stripboards, scene or shoot-day breakdowns, and departmental day-out-of-days with category, tag, day, scene, and paper controls.
Build the board before the day builds itself.
Lay out the strips, test the work, mark the calendar, and give every department a shooting plan grounded in the breakdown.
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