Shooting schedule software
Change one row. The day re-flows.
Build each shoot day as rows with durations, and the clock takes care of itself: move a setup, stretch a shot, and every time after it updates. Pin lunch where catering is booked and the schedule tells you how far over you are before you get there.
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Stretch the morning and the buffer becomes an overrun, in red. The wrap only moves if you unpin lunch.
The problem
The schedule is a spreadsheet the AD retypes every time a setup runs long, so by 11am the times on it are fiction and nobody trusts the wrap. Moving a shot to Day 2 means editing three documents and telling everyone twice.
Times fall out of the durations
Nothing on the schedule stores a clock. Each row has a duration, the next one starts when it ends, and the day is recomputed every time anything changes.
- Call, setup, shot, meal, move, note, wrap: seven kinds of row, each colored so the day reads at a glance
- Steppers on every row: fifteen minutes up or down, and the whole day moves with it
- The scheduled wrap sits beside the target, green when it fits and red when it does not
- Night shoots that cross midnight are read correctly, not as twenty hours over
Anchors hold, and report
Lunch is at 1:00 because catering is booked for 1:00. Pin it, and the morning's overrun shows up as a number above it instead of quietly pushing the wrap.
- Any row can be anchored to a fixed time; the rest cascade around it
- A short morning shows as a buffer, a long one as an overrun into the anchor, in red
- Unpin it and the wrap moves instead: your call which one gives
- One row model behind both views, so nothing is entered twice
Drag it where it goes
A row drags to a new position in the day, or to another day on the board, and the shot list learns which day its shots are on.
- Day view: one day as a table crew can read, with time, what, location and set, talent and crew
- Board view: every day as a column of strips, INT/EXT and DAY/NIGHT on the edge, stripboard style
- Attach shots from the shot list; the schedule owns which day each shot is on
- Talent and crew per row, picked off the project roster, so 'when do I need to be there' has an answer
The difference
It is a schedule, not a spreadsheet of times.
Every scheduling tool lets you type a time in a cell. This one refuses to store one: it stores what each thing takes and derives the clock. That is why moving a setup never leaves stale times behind it, why an anchored lunch reports the overrun instead of hiding it, and why the shot list and the schedule cannot disagree about which day a shot is on.
- Durations in, times out, on every surface
- Anchored rows report slack and overrun instead of silently shifting the wrap
- One row model behind the day table and the stripboard, so the two never drift
Stretch the morning and the buffer becomes an overrun, in red. The wrap only moves if you unpin lunch.
More schedule features
Several days per job
Each with its own date, call, wrap target and location; a new day inherits the last one's.
Visible grips
Every row shows its handle; drop onto a row's upper half to land before it, lower half after.
Talent today
The day header names who is on set before the rows start.
Frames from the shot list
A row carrying shots shows their thumbnails, so the strip is recognisable.
Notes on the row
Reset times, backup bottles, whatever the department needs to know.
Location and set, separately
The address you drive to and the set within it, each in its own column.
Stripboard colors
INT DAY, EXT DAY, INT NIGHT, EXT NIGHT: the industry's four, drawn as the strip's edge.
Read-only for reviewers
A collaborator with review access reads the schedule and cannot change it.
Phone layout
On a phone each row is a card with labelled fields, not a squeezed table.
Works with
Call sheets
Sent, seen, confirmed, chased
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Shot lists
Build, import, present
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