Schedule Review

There are various aspects of breaking down a script and those items which you will create after doing so.  The Script Breakdown section discusses how to do a breakdown, but then what?  What are the items you need to create, how do you read them - and how do you make them look good for others to communicate clearly?  This section will try to shed some light on those issues.

A note: Forms change slightly (or drastically) from AD to AD and UPM to UPM.  What I show here is what I use and have become comfortable with.  It will look different than yours, but the essence and information is the same.

SHOOTING SCHEDULE

The Shooting Schedule usually only gets printed for select crew, and department heads at the Production Meeting.  It's a thick document which gives every detail and element of each scene.  This is used to review everything.  I urge people to be green and try not to print this too many times.  Please.  Here's a one page example - sometimes they are printed in shoot order, sometimes in scene order.

ONE LINE

The One Line is the document you will see most as a schedule distributed to the crew by the A.D. Department.  The name comes from the theoretical idea that all the information is on 'one line'.  In practice, there usually at least two, if not three, lines per strip.  Here's an example:

I add the following information (I know other people may show these too):

STRIPBOARD

A stripboard technically refers to the old-school form of having the schedule in vertical strips - like a one line, but vertical.  I don't know too many people who use this printing format anymore.  However, for sake of clarity and completeness, here's what one would look like.

DAY OUT OF DAYS

Yeah, it's a funny name.  Think of it as "One Day's Work, Out of All Days", then truncate that to "Day out of Days".  Some people call it simply, "Day of Days".  Regardless of the funny names, and further truncation of the name - it's a chart which shows who or what works on a given day.  Here's one for Cast:

Here's one for Props:

I should note that after all the columns of days, there are a few totals columns, which may look something like this:

You'll notice a totals column for Travel, Work, Hold and Holiday days - then a grand total column.  Additionally, as a quick reference, the first and last day of work are noted.  These columns will be important for you to monitor to ensure cast Hold days don't got outrageous and as a reference for when you go to flesh out your budget.

So, you can make a DooD (Day out of Days) for anything.  Each box will show some code letters for what's going on that day.  Here's a rundown of the one's you are most likely to see.

• SW = Start/Work  |   The first day of work.  See the rules notes below for a huge exception to this mark.
• W = Work  |  A day of work.
• WF = Work/Finish  |  The last day of work.  Again, see below for an exception.
• TR = Travel  |  Travel day for the cast.
• FT = Fitting  |  A day of fitting (wardrobe) for the cast.
• WD = Work/Drop  |  A day of work, then this person has a drop-gap.  See below.
• PW = PickUp/Work  |  The first day back from a drop-gap.  See below.
• H = Hold  |  A day the person does not work, but is still getting paid to be available.

Notice that the Props DooD (as should any non-cast / person DooD) does not show HOLD days.  Day denotations can be combined in different ways too, such as "SWD" would be the first day of work for a person, and s/he will be going into a drop-gap; or perhaps PUF as the day back from a drop-gap and the person's last day of work.  A "W" in this case would not only not fit in the box, but in unneccesary and presumed given the other notations.  There are lots of rules for schedules which create these codes, but here are some of the most common you'll want to keep in mind:

NOT COMPLETE !!