Choose the script
Build a board from one shooting draft or combine scripts and episodes that will shoot together.
Film production scheduling
Scheduling
Turn the script breakdown into a shooting schedule. Cast, locations, page counts, timings, and department requirements remain with each scene on the stripboard.
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.
From breakdown to shooting order
Creating a Stripboard
Select the scripts or episodes for the schedule and bring their 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 End Of Days, and use banners for moves, units, notes, or other production events.
Review
Review schedule, availability warnings, and department requirements.
Distribute
Print the stripboard, breakdowns, or DOOD and use the scheduled day for sides and call sheets.
The AD's work space
Revise the stripboard as the schedule changes
Move scenes between shoot days while their page counts, cast, sets, and department requirements stay attached.
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.
Board banners
Add colored banners for company moves, meal notes, units, travel, rehearsals, or any other production event.
Boneyard
Keep scenes off the active schedule without losing them.
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 in the stripboard.
Strip timings
Enter scene durations and calculate the scheduled time per shoot day, alongside 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, scene, or shot list 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 changes while creating the schedule.
More than one schedule
Create alternate stripboards, identify the current schedule, and assign its production color while versions are being compared.
Production calendar
Keep the stripboard synced with the production calendar
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 production calendar.
Prep · Aug 4Photography · Aug 18Wrap · Sep 12
MONTUEWEDTHUFRISATSUN
18Day 119Day 220Day 321Day 422Day 523OFF24OFF
Three production views
Show the schedule as a stripboard, a calendar, or a day-out-of-days
Each view displays a different overview of the shooting schedule.
Stripboard
Shows shooting order, strip colors, page count, timings, cast IDs, scene requirements, banners, and end of days in stacked strips.
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
Show start, work, finish, hold, idle, rehearsal, and travel markings with work, hold, travel, and total-day counts per cast member.
CAST1819202122TOTAL
1. AVASWWHF5
2. BELLHOPSF2
3. DRIVERTHSWF5
Departmental day-out-of-days
Track more than cast work days
Build a day-out-of-days for the selected department and add hold, idle days where the shooting order alone does not tell the whole story.
- Automatic start, work, and finish markings from scheduled scenes.
- Manual hold, idle markings.
- Worked, held, and total-day counts.
Schedule printouts
Print the schedule by view
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 production 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
Lock the stripboard and keep production moving
Scenes do not need to be re-entered when they move from the schedule into call sheets.
Script breakdown
Bring strips, cast, sets, page counts, and department requirements from the breakdown onto the stripboard.
Shot Lister
Open the shot list for a scheduled scene to understand the workload.
Sides
Pull the screenplay pages for the selected shoot day.
Call sheets
Start the day's call sheet from its scheduled scenes, cast, locations.
Ready to create your first stripboard?
Build the stripboard, schedule scenes into shoot days, and carry cast, locations, page counts, and department requirements into the day.
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