Work Schedule

Once your screenplay is finished, it may become a film. The work schedule is a document that specifies how shooting will take place.

The film won’t be shot in the chronological order of your screenplay. Scenes will be grouped together according to the set, period (Day or Night) and special effects. This makes the actors’ work yet more difficult, since they will have to skip from one emotion to another and sometimes have to play the closing scene during the first days of shooting!

A work schedule includes the day-by-day shooting schedule, as well as all details related to the people, technical and artistic elements that must be brought together for the director to shoot the film.

The assistant director will draw up a work schedule with the production director, who is in charge of the budget. Software used by most ADs: Movie Magic scheduling