The work that happens before the first shot: reading the script, tagging it, building the board, and getting a call sheet the crew can act on.
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Tag the script so the schedule has something to stand on.
Stripboard, DOOD, and the constraints that decide the day.
One-eighth of a page is the unit your entire shooting schedule runs on. Here's how to count it, write it, and turn it into a day that actually finishes.
Your producer wants a DOOD before you've finished your coffee. Once you know the codes, cast down the side, days across the top, it takes ten minutes, not an hour.
A stripboard is one strip per scene, color-coded and arranged into shoot days. Here's how to read it, build one, and the constraints that decide whether it survives Day 1.
Turnaround is the rest between wrap and the next call. The math is simple. It is the NIGHT-to-DAY swing that quietly turns into a forced call.
Back-timed calls the crew can trust at 7pm.