Free shooting schedule generator. A proper stripboard.
Enter your scenes, add your shoot days, and arrange the board: strips colour themselves the traditional way, page counts total up per day, and the day-out-of-days grid builds itself as you go. Download the one-line schedule, the day-by-day shooting schedule, and the DOOD as PDFs, plus a CSV of the scene list. Free, with no account to create, and nothing you type leaves your browser.
Build your scheduleYour 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.
Sources & how this tool works
The board follows standard 1st AD practice: one strip per scene, coloured by interior or exterior and time of day (white for day interiors, yellow for day exteriors, blue for night interiors, green for night exteriors), arranged into shoot days with page counts in eighths. The day-out-of-days uses the standard SW, W, H, WF, and SWF codes.
The PDFs and the CSV are generated locally in your browser, so your scenes, cast, and schedule are never sent to or stored on our servers. Your draft is kept in this browser’s local storage only.
Sunrise, sunset, and the forecast come from Open-Meteo when you use the sun auto-fill (forecasts cover roughly 16 days ahead). Forecasts are estimates: check again the night before the shoot. A complex multi-unit shoot deserves real scheduling software, which is exactly what InteScene’s scheduler is for.
Quick answers
Is this shooting schedule generator really free?
Yes, completely free, with no account to create and no credit card. The finished PDFs carry one small "made with InteScene" line in the footer, and nothing else is added to them.
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.
What is a stripboard, and what do the colours mean?
A stripboard is the classic scheduling tool: each scene becomes one thin strip, and the strips are arranged into shoot days so the whole shoot reads at a glance. The colours follow the industry convention this tool applies automatically: white for day interiors, yellow for day exteriors, blue for night interiors, green for night exteriors, with orange and lavender for dawn and dusk scenes. You can also drop banner strips between scenes for company moves, meal breaks, and unit notes, just as scheduling software does.
Why are script pages measured in eighths?
Scripts are divided into eighths of a page because an eighth is a practical unit for estimating shooting time: a scene marked 2 4/8 is two and a half pages. Most productions plan somewhere between three and five pages a day depending on the material, which is why this tool flags a day much over five pages as heavy.
Does it make a day-out-of-days too?
Yes. The DOOD grid is computed automatically from the board: give your scenes cast names, assign them to days, and every cast member gets SW, W, H, and WF codes with work, hold, and total day counts. Move a strip and the grid updates. You can download it as its own landscape PDF.
Can I reschedule and download again?
Your draft stays saved in this browser, so you can come back after the plan changes, reorder the board, and download fresh PDFs. If you want a schedule that builds itself from your script, checks cast availability and daylight, and keeps the call sheets and DOOD in sync automatically, that is what InteScene itself does.
Rescheduling at 1 AM again? Automate it.
InteScene builds the schedule from your script: the AI proposes the running order, checks daylight and cast availability, and the call sheets and day-out-of-days update themselves every time the plan moves.