The schedule

The stripboard

One strip per scene, carrying its number, its page-eighths, its location, its interior or exterior, its day or night and its cast. Drag strips into days; group them by location to count company moves.

Page-eighths are how a day is measured. ScriptLock computes them from the pagination rather than asking you, with the convention's minimum of 1/8 for a scene that is shorter than that.

Day Out of Days

The document that decides what a cast member is paid, derived every time rather than stored — a DOOD that disagreed with the stripboard would be worse than none.

For each performer, across the days: SW start work, W work, H hold, F finish, SWF for a single day.

Hold is the whole point. A performer who works Monday and Friday is held Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday — and paid for them — whether or not anybody wrote it down. Move their Friday scene to Tuesday and you save three days of their fee. No stripboard shows that; this does, and it names who to look at first.

A banner day — travel, a company move, a holiday — is not a working day and nobody is held on it.

Call sheets

Built from the day: scenes in shooting order, cast with their calls, the unit's call and wrap, locations, weather, sunrise and sunset, and the hospital.

• It refuses to go out incomplete. No hospital, no nearest-hospital distance, a cast member with no call: it says so before it sends.
• Sent on WhatsApp, email or both, and you see who opened it.
• A published call sheet is frozen. A change is a new version, with what changed listed at the top.

Turnaround

The stripboard cannot see travel time. Wrap at 22:00 two hours from the hotel, called at 09:00 after another two hours, is eleven hours by the board and six hours forty in the bed. ScriptLock checks the real one and says so.