Scheduling and the stripboard

Scheduling turns a broken-down script into shoot days.

Strips and days

Each scene becomes a strip. You arrange strips into shoot days, grouping scenes that share something expensive to move — a location, a cast member, a time of day, a set.

Because the scenes carry their tagged elements from the breakdown, the board knows what each day requires without you telling it again.

Drag strips to reorder. A shoot day moves through planned → shooting → completed, or is cancelled.

Day Out of Days

The Day Out of Days is generated from the schedule — you never maintain it by hand. It is the grid showing, for every cast member, what each shoot day is for them:

| Code | Meaning | | --- | --- | | SW | Start Work — their first day | | W | Work | | WF | Work Finish — their last day | | SWF | Start Work Finish — begins and ends on the same day | | H | Hold — not shooting, but held and usually paid | | T | Travel | | R | Rehearsal |

The DOOD is what tells you an actor is being held for six days between two scenes — which is a cost, and usually a schedule you can improve.

Scenarios

You can save a scenario: a named version of the board. Each one keeps its own arrangement of strips along with its total shoot days, hold-day summary and budget impact.

Use it to compare honestly. Ordering by location and ordering by cast availability produce different day counts and different hold costs, and a scenario lets you see both before committing. One scenario is active at a time.

What to do next

With days set, you can build shot lists for coverage, or go straight to daily call sheets.