Film production glossaryFilm production glossary
The terms a production runs on, each answered in two sentences and shown on a real production.
GlossaryWhat is a stripboard?A stripboard is a shooting schedule laid out as strips, one per scene, stacked into shoot days and coloured by interior or exterior and day or night.GlossaryWhat are eighths in a script?Scenes are measured in eighths of a page: a page is divided into eight parts so a scene that fills half a page is 4/8. Why schedulers use them, with a real example.GlossaryWhat is a day out of days?A day out of days is a grid of cast against shoot days showing who works when, with codes for start, work, finish and hold. See a real example with two holds.GlossaryWhat is a call sheet?A call sheet is the one-page daily document that tells cast and crew where to be and when. What it contains, who sends it, and a real filled-in example.GlossaryWhat is turnaround on a film set?On a film set, turnaround is the rest period between wrap on one day and the next call. Why a night shoot followed by an early call is the usual problem.GlossaryWhat is a script breakdown?A script breakdown is a scene-by-scene list of everything the script needs, used to schedule and budget a shoot. What it lists, who does it, with an example.GlossaryWhat is a company move?A company move is when the whole crew and equipment relocate from one location to another during a shoot day. Why moves cost hours and how schedules avoid them.GlossaryWhat is a daily production report?A daily production report records what happened on a shoot day: first shot, lunch, wrap, scenes completed, delays and incidents. What it holds and why it matters.