Free day out of days generator. Codes computed for you.
Enter your scenes with their cast, arrange them into shoot days, and the day-out-of-days grid computes itself: start work, work, hold, and finish codes for every cast member, with work, hold, and total day counts. Download it as a landscape PDF, alongside the stripboard and shooting schedule the same data produces. Free, with no account to create, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
Build your day out of daysThe grid is derived from a shooting schedule, so this page opens the full schedule builder: enter scenes and days, and the DOOD computes itself in step 05.
Your work is saved as you go, so you can close this tab and pick it up later. Every field is optional: anything you leave blank is simply left off the PDFs.
Production
Who is shooting, and what. This fills the header of every PDF.
Scenes
One row per scene, straight off the script. Page length is picked in eighths, the way scripts are timed. Cast names typed once reappear as suggestions on every later scene.
Shoot days
Add a card per day. Sun auto-fill pulls sunrise, sunset and the forecast for each dated day from Open-Meteo (up to about 16 days ahead); everything stays editable.
Arrange the board
Drag strips to reorder a day or move scenes between days (the arrows do the same on touch screens). Add banners for company moves, meal breaks and unit notes. Strips take the traditional stripboard colours: white for day interiors, yellow for day exteriors, blue for night interiors, green for night exteriors.
Unscheduled scenes
Every scene with content is on the board. Add more scenes above and they appear here first.
No scenes yet. Drag a strip in, or use "Add to…" on an unscheduled scene.
Day out of days
Computed automatically from the board: SW = start work, W = work, H = hold, WF = work finish, SWF = start and finish the same day. Move a strip and the grid updates.
Give your scenes cast names and assign them to shoot days: the grid builds itself from the board above.
Quick answers
What is a day out of days?
A day out of days (DOOD) is the grid that shows which cast members work on which shoot days: cast down the side, days across the top, with a code in each cell. Production uses it to plan bookings and spot expensive hold days, and it is a standard deliverable alongside the shooting schedule.
What do the SW, W, H, WF, and SWF codes mean?
SW is start work (the first day), W is a working day, H is a hold (an idle day between working days, usually still paid), WF is work finish (the last day), and SWF means the actor starts and finishes on the same day. This tool computes all of them from your scene and day assignments, plus work, hold, and total day counts per cast member.
Is this day-out-of-days generator really free?
Yes, completely free, with no account to create and no credit card. The finished PDF carries one small "made with InteScene" line in the footer, and nothing else is added to it.
What happens to the information I type in?
It stays in your browser. The PDFs and the CSV are generated on your device, so your scenes, cast names, and schedule are never uploaded to our servers. A draft is kept in your browser storage on this device so a refresh does not lose your work. The only network request the tool makes is the optional sun and weather auto-fill: it sends the town name to Open-Meteo, then the coordinates that lookup returns along with each shoot date. Nothing else from the schedule is sent anywhere.
Why do hold days matter?
An actor on hold is typically paid to wait, so holds are wasted budget. The point of reading a DOOD before the shoot is to reorder scenes so each actor works consecutive days where possible. This tool highlights hold days so you can try a different arrangement and watch the grid update.
Holds cost money. Catch them early.
In InteScene the day-out-of-days updates itself every time the schedule moves, so an expensive hold shows up the moment it is created, not when the invoice arrives.