Call Sheet and Shooting Schedule from a Screenplay

A tool for prepping a shoot: it reads the scenes from a screenplay, their length in eighths of a page and the characters, arranges the scenes into shooting days and builds a call sheet for each day. The sheet shows the expected time of every scene, lunch, each actor's call time and the wrap. The call sheet and the full schedule are saved as PDF.

How to make a call sheet from a screenplay

4 steps
1
Load the screenplay

A Fountain or FDX file or plain text, or enter the scenes by hand.

2
Arrange the scenes into days

Press "Arrange into days" and move the strips where needed.

3
Fill in the day's sheet

Crew call, address, cast and crew; scene and call times are worked out for you.

4
Save the sheet as PDF

The call sheet for the selected day or the schedule for the whole shoot.

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Arrange scenes into shooting days and print a sheet for the crew

Drop a screenplay here: Fountain, Final Draft or plain text
Scenes, their length and the characters are read automatically
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Features

Script breakdown by scene
Scene headings are taken from a Fountain or Final Draft file or from plain text: interior or exterior, the set, the time of day, the length in eighths of a page and the speaking characters. Scenes can also be entered by hand.
A schedule on a stripboard
One button groups the scenes of each set together, day before night, and fills the days up to the page target. Strips in five colors are dragged between days, and a scene is never cut in two.
The shooting day to the minute
A start time is worked out for every scene, lunch goes before the scene that would run past six hours from call, and you see when the day wraps. A day longer than 12 hours is flagged.
Cast call times
An actor is called for the start of their first scene, less makeup and wardrobe time, but never before the crew call. Any time can be edited by hand and stays that way for that day.
Call sheet and schedule as PDF
The day's call sheet: crew call, address, scenes, cast, crew with phone numbers, notes. The shooting schedule puts every day in one document, in the strip colors. Text in the PDF can be selected and searched.
The project is kept in the browser
Scenes, the schedule, actor names and the crew are remembered on this device: closing the tab or reloading does not lose the project. You can keep several projects.

Questions about the call sheet and the shooting schedule

How should a script be formatted for the scenes to be read?

Scene headings in the usual form are enough: "INT. KITCHEN - DAY" or "EXT. YARD - NIGHT", with dialogue under the character's name in capital letters. That is how scripts are written in Fountain and in Final Draft. If you have no script in that form, add the scenes by hand: heading, length and characters.

What are eighths of a page, and where does a scene's time come from?

A script page is divided into eight parts and a scene's length is counted in them: a scene of a page and a half is 1 4/8. The time comes from your numbers: at five pages in a ten-hour day, one page takes two hours. Give a scene with a stunt or a crowd your own estimate in minutes, and it replaces the calculated one.

By what rule are scenes arranged into days?

Scenes on the same set are placed together so the company does not move more than it has to; within a set, day scenes come before night scenes. Days are filled up to the page target, and a long scene gets a whole day. This is a first pass, as on a paper board: after that you move the strips by hand, and the "Undo arrangement" button reverses the automatic layout.

Why is lunch not exactly six hours after call?

A scene is not interrupted for lunch, so lunch is placed before the first scene that would end later than six hours after the crew call. You set the length of lunch; a day shorter than six hours goes without it.

Can I adjust one actor's call time?

Yes. The calculated time is the start of the actor's first scene minus makeup and wardrobe time. Enter your own: the field is highlighted, and that time stays with the actor for that shooting day even if the scenes are rearranged later.

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