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The stripboard is how film productions have scheduled shoots for close to a century: one thin strip per scene, colour-coded by interior/exterior and day/night, physically reordered until the shoot days make sense, with a black strip marking the end of each day. The tool predates computers because the idea is sound — a schedule you can rearrange by hand.
This template is the classic board as a printable PDF: strip rows with scene, I/E, D/N, page count, synopsis, cast numbers, and location, the traditional colour legend, and example strips showing a completed day.
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The paper board’s weakness is arithmetic: every reorder means re-adding page counts, re-checking cast days, and re-writing the day-out-of-days by hand. Production Slate’s stripboard keeps the strip metaphor — colour-coded, drag-to-reorder, works on a phone — while doing the arithmetic live: page totals per day, cast day counts, and a Day-out-of-Days report generated from the same board that builds your call sheets.
A stripboard (or production board) is the classic film scheduling tool: one colour-coded strip per scene, arranged in shooting order and divided by day-break strips. The colours encode interior/exterior and day/night; strip order is the shooting schedule.
The traditional scheme: white for INT/DAY, yellow for EXT/DAY, blue for INT/NIGHT, green for EXT/NIGHT, and black strips for day breaks. Some productions vary the palette, but the I/E × D/N encoding is universal.
Scripts are measured in eighths of a page — a scene’s length written as 2 2/8 means two and a quarter pages. Eighths are the standard unit for estimating how much a production can shoot per day.
A report showing which days each cast member works, starts, and finishes — derived directly from the stripboard. It drives cast booking and is generated automatically in Production Slate.
Production Slate’s digital stripboard keeps the colours and drag-to-reorder, and does the page math and Day-out-of-Days for you.
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