Drag-and-drop stripboard scheduling, automatic labor cost calculations, crew assignments, and DOOD reports — all connected to your budget and call sheets.
Traditional production strip boards live in expensive desktop apps or on physical boards that can't be shared. Production Slate gives you a digital film stripboard you can use from anywhere — drag scenes between shoot days, reorder them, and see your shooting schedule take shape in real time. New to stripboards? Grab the free printable stripboard template to see the classic format.
Each scene shows INT/EXT, location, time of day, page count, and cast. Color-coded for day/night/magic-hour shoots so you can spot scheduling conflicts instantly.
Move scenes between shoot days or reorder within a day. Works on desktop and mobile with native touch support.
Each scene carries both the screenplay heading ("INT. APARTMENT - DAY") and the actual filming address. The filming location with full address surfaces on call sheets so the crew always has the real place, not just the narrative one.
A single calendar entry can be both a Travel Day and a Prep Day — pick all that apply. Day numbers auto-fill and renumber chronologically so adding a day in the middle doesn't break your DOOD.
When a single shoot day crosses two or more locations, add each stop with its own company-move time. The call sheet renders an amber "COMPANY MOVE @ HH:MM" row between location blocks so the crew knows when to wrap and roll.
Assign crew to each shoot day and see labor cost estimates calculated from their hourly or daily rates.
Schedule production meetings, table reads, color sessions, and post deliveries alongside shoot days. Pick attendees from your project people, set start/end times, attach an agenda, and they show up on the Schedule, Dashboard, and the calendar PDF.
Generate day-out-of-days reports with one click. See exactly which cast and crew are needed on which days across the entire production.
Add prep days, rehearsals, location scouts, travel days, and post days alongside shoot days — all on the same calendar.
Open the schedule in two browser tabs and edits flow between them in under a second. Make a change in tab A; your team in tab B sees it without refreshing. Powered by BroadcastChannel — no server polling.
Export a one-page breakdown per scene with cast, art, locations, and call times so departments can prep without printing the whole script.
A checkbox on every scene chip and stripboard strip flips a scene to "shot" without opening the editor. Shot scenes dim and carry a green pill so what's left to shoot reads at a glance.
Days dated before today drop into a collapsible "wrapped days" section at the bottom, each with a Wrapped badge. The top of your schedule is always what's next — and a postponed day rejoins the list the moment you fix its date.
Your schedule isn't just a standalone board — it feeds your call sheets, budget, and payroll automatically.
Most scheduling tools stop at the stripboard. Production Slate follows your schedule all the way through — from the initial breakdown, through daily call sheets, to wrap and payroll.
Add scenes with locations, cast, page counts, and notes. Tag them INT/EXT, DAY/NIGHT.
Create shoot days, drag scenes in, assign crew. See daily labor costs as you go.
Select a shoot day and your call sheet builds itself with all the relevant data.
A stripboard (or strip board) is the classic film scheduling tool: one color-coded strip per scene, arranged in shooting order and divided by day breaks. The colors encode interior/exterior and day/night at a glance. A digital stripboard keeps the same format but lets you drag strips between days and share the board with the whole team.
By convention: white for INT/DAY, yellow for EXT/DAY, blue for INT/NIGHT, and green for EXT/NIGHT, with black strips marking day breaks. Production Slate color-codes scene strips automatically from each scene’s INT/EXT and time-of-day tags.
A day-out-of-days report is a grid showing which cast (and crew) work on which shoot days — the document that drives cast booking and payroll. Production Slate generates a DOOD from your stripboard with one click and renumbers it automatically when days move.
Yes — the stripboard, shoot-day calendar, and DOOD reports are on Production Slate’s Free plan for up to 2 projects and 5 shoot days per project. There is also a free printable stripboard template if you want the paper format.
The classic paper strip board format, printable — see how the colors and day breaks work.
Colors, layout, and examples — the fundamentals of the format this page is built on.
Step-by-step from script breakdown to a shooting order you can defend.
The full color-code reference: INT/EXT, day/night, and day-break strips.
The real tradeoffs between the physical board and scheduling software.
A copy-paste one-liner layout if you want to start in a document first.
The schedule feeds the call sheet — grab the classic one-page layout, or generate it from your shoot days here.
The condensed schedule you distribute — and when to use it instead of the full board.
How to read a DOOD and why cast booking and payroll depend on it.
Free tool: script pages + genre presets → shoot days and calendar weeks.
Free tool: total scene lengths in eighths and estimate shoot days.
Start on the Free plan — no credit card required. Upgrade to Pro ($12/mo) or Team ($20 per user/mo, every seat gets everything) when you outgrow it.
Build your first schedule freeor try the interactive demo first
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