Free film production templates

The paperwork of a shoot follows one chain: the script gets broken down into scenes, the scenes get scheduled onto a stripboard, the schedule sets the budget, each scene gets a shot list (and often a storyboard), and every shoot day ends with tomorrow’s call sheet going out to the crew. These five templates cover that chain end to end — start with whichever document your production needs next. If the stripboard format is new to you, what is a stripboard in film explains where it came from and how productions read one.

Each template page also explains the conventions the format carries: what the stripboard colors mean, which call sheet fields crews actually read, when to send a call sheet so the crew actually reads it, and how budget categories split above and below the line. If you’re building this paperwork for the first time, read the guide on the template’s page before filling it in. And when you’d rather generate the paperwork than fill it in, Production Slate builds call sheets from your schedule, crew, and locations automatically.