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Stripboard and shoot days

The stripboard is the shooting schedule. Each scene is a strip, and a day break under a run of strips makes them one shoot day, with its date and call. Move strips around until the days work, and call sheets, sides, and reports follow. In the project nav, click Production, then Schedule. Click a schedule to open its stripboard. After your script is parsed, the project has a Working Schedule with every scene on it. The sidebar lists each shoot day with its date. Under a day, Call opens that day’s call sheet and Day Bible opens the day’s board. The two icons next to them open the day’s Daily Production Report and print the day’s sides. Click the magnifying glass to show only that day on the board, and the arrow next to a day to list its scenes. The arrow at the sidebar’s edge hides the sidebar for a wider board.

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Read a strip

Each strip shows the scene number, INT/EXT and time of day, the set, the cast IDs, the shoot location, and the page count. Strips are colored by INT/EXT and time of day.

• Click the set to read the scene.
• Click the cast IDs to change who is in the scene.
• Click the pencil to open the scene in the script editor.

A day break row closes each day. It shows the day number, the date, and the day’s total pages. Everything above it, back to the previous day break, is that day.

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Jump to a day

The Days bar above the board has a chip for each day, with its date. It stays pinned while you scroll, and the day on screen stays highlighted. Click a chip to scroll to that day. A day with no scenes yet shows empty on its chip. If a day filter is hiding the day you click, the filter clears.

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Find strips

Type in Search Strips to find scenes by number, set, heading, location, or cast name, like maya for every scene she’s in. To see one day, pick it under Filter. Above and Below add that many days before and after it, for a look at the days around it. Export, then Export PDF prints what the filter shows.

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Add day breaks

To add one day break:

1. Click the three-dot menu on a strip, then Insert Day Break Under or Insert Day Break Above.
2. Optional: add a description and the new day’s shoot date.
3. Click Add Day Break.

The strips above the new break keep the day’s date and call sheet. The strips below it, up to the next day break, become a new day. To break the whole board into days:

1. Click the + in the stripboard toolbar (Add Day Breaks).
2. Choose a day break every so many pages or hours.
3. Optional: check Set start date to date the days as they’re added.
4. Click Add day breaks.

To remove a day break, click the × on its row. Its day’s call sheet and Day Bible go with it, and its scenes join the next day (or the day before, if it was the last). A day whose call sheet has been sent, or that has a production report, can’t be removed, so nothing that went out to the crew is lost.

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Name a day

Click Day Break on a day break row and type a name, like “Bait shop and dock”. Press Enter to save.

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Set a day’s date and call

On a day break row, click the date (or Date TBD) and pick the shoot date. You can also set it from the date under the day in the sidebar. The day break’s Start Time is the day’s call. The day’s first strip is suggested to start at it.

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Move a scene to another day

Drag a strip up or down to reorder it, within a day or into another one. On a long board, the strip menu is faster:

1. Click the three-dot menu on the strip.
2. Under Move to day, click the day. The strip’s own day is marked current.

The scene lands at the end of that day, and its times and the day’s call sheet update the same way they do after a drag.

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Strip menu

• Move to day: send the scene to the end of another shoot day.
• Insert Day Break Under / Insert Day Break Above: start a new shoot day.
• Add Banner Under: add a label row, like a company move or a meal. Banners take start and end times too.
• Duplicate Scene: put a second strip for the scene right under it, starting when the original ends, for a scene shot on two days. Later strips keep their times.
• Split Scene…: cut one scene into several strips (see below). Revert split puts them back together.
• Recalculate times from here: recompute start and end times from this strip to the end of the day.
• View Breakdown: open the scene’s breakdown page.
• Remove from schedule: take the strip off this board. The scene stays in your script.

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Add a banner

A banner is a label row between strips, like a company move or lunch.

1. Click the three-dot menu on the strip it goes under, then Add Banner Under.
2. Type a Banner name, or pick a suggestion: Company Move, Meal Break, Lunch, or a company move to one of your locations.
3. Optional: add a description, and Prep Time, Shoot Time, or Est. Time for how long it runs.
4. Click Create Banner.

Company moves show in orange-brown and meals in dark amber. Click a banner’s name or times to change them, or its × to remove it.

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Split a scene across days

1. Click the three-dot menu on the strip, then Split Scene….
2. Click Split mode. A scissors shows at every place the scene can be cut.
3. Click a scissors, then Cut here. Add as many cuts as you need.
4. Click Save.

Each part becomes its own strip, like 10A and 10B, with its own page count. The parts run back to back from the scene’s start time. Strips after them keep their times, so check the amber rings and use Recalculate times from here if the day should follow. Move each part to whatever day it shoots. To put the scene back together, click Revert split in a part’s strip menu.

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Set start and end times

Turn on Start Time and End Time under Display (see below). Then click a strip’s start or end time to change it. The editor shows a suggested time from the strip before it and this strip’s length. Use the arrows or type, then click Save. Saving a start time moves every later strip in the same day to follow it, so you can anchor one strip and let the rest of the day line up. A strip runs for its Est. Time, or its Prep Time plus Shoot Time. Shoot Time starts from the page count. Turn those columns on under Display and click one to change it. The rest of the day moves to follow. A time that no longer matches its suggestion, after you reorder or change a length, gets an amber ring. Hover it to see the suggested time. Recalculate times from here in the strip menu does the same from any strip, after you confirm.

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Print a day’s sides

In the sidebar, click the sides icon under a day. Click Day sides (all) for every scene that day, or a character’s name for just their scenes.

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Change who is in a scene

1. Click the cast IDs on a strip.
2. Check the characters in the scene and uncheck the ones who aren’t.
3. Click Save.

Click + Add Character… to add someone who isn’t in the list yet. The cast on each strip drives the call sheet’s talent and the day’s sides. See Call sheets.

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Show or hide columns

1. In the stripboard toolbar, click Display (the sliders icon).
2. Check the columns you want.
3. Click Save.

The choices are saved with the schedule. Scene # and I/E & Day always show.

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Reorder the whole board

1. In the stripboard toolbar, click the three lines icon (Reorder Strips).
2. Pick a 1st Sort, 2nd Sort, and 3rd Sort, like Shoot Location, then Day then Night.
3. Optional: check Add day breaks after reordering for new day breaks every 8 hours.
4. Click Reorder Stripboard.

Reordering removes every day break first, with each day’s call sheet and Day Bible. If a day’s call sheet has been sent, or it has a production report, the board won’t reorder and names the day instead.

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Reset times

1. In the stripboard toolbar, click the clock icon (Reset Times).
2. Choose what to clear: everything, clock times only, durations only, the strips’ times only, or the day breaks’ times only.
3. Click Reset Times.

Cleared times show —. Dates don’t change.

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Remove a scene and bring it back

1. Click the three-dot menu on the strip.
2. Click Remove from schedule and confirm.

When that was the scene’s only strip, it moves to the Boneyard (Omitted Scenes) box above the stripboard, and stays there through script saves and new versions. Click Restore to put it back. It returns as one strip at the end of the board. Drag it to its day, and duplicate or split it again if it was on more than one day. The Boneyard link at the top of the sidebar is a different place: it holds archived schedules. See The official schedule and the Boneyard.

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Make it the official schedule

When the board is ready, click Set as official so call sheets and reports use it. See The official schedule and the Boneyard.

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Related

• Schedule
• Your first schedule
• Call sheets
• Your first call sheet
• Boards and cards