Plan the shooting schedule
Import a schedule straight from a stripboard PDF or build days by hand. Scenes move from the script list onto the days you shoot them, and the calendar shows the shape of the shoot.
The scene list reads in script order. The shoot does not. The shooting schedule is where those two part company: it is the plan for which scenes are covered on which day, in whatever order the production actually works.
Importing an existing schedule
If the schedule already exists as a stripboard PDF, import it rather than retyping it. SceneMatch reads the file and creates the shooting days from it — a two-dozen-day schedule arrives in one step, with each day's scenes already attached.
This is usually the fastest way to a working schedule on a production that has a 1st AD already working in something else. Import first, adjust by hand afterwards.
Or build days yourself
A new shooting day needs only a number. Days are numbered rather than dated, so Day 1, Day 04, Day 07 — whatever the production calls them — and numbers must be unique: a second Day 04 is rejected.
Then attach the scenes you intend to cover. The picker offers the production's scenes and you can filter by scene number to find one in a long list.
A scene belongs to one day at a time
The available pool in the picker shrinks as scenes are assigned, across the whole schedule. Assign a scene to Day 3 and it is no longer offered for Day 4.
That is the schedule's core rule, and it is what makes the numbers trustworthy: every scene is scheduled once or not at all, so nothing is quietly double-booked and nothing is silently dropped.
Scenes that have been scheduled show a shooting-day tag on the scene list, so you can see at a glance what is covered and what is still loose.
The calendar
Days render on a calendar, grouped, each badged with its number. Open one and you get its detail: the scene rows for that day, and chips for every character called.
Two things worth knowing about that view:
- Click a character chip and the day filters to just that character's scenes. This is the fastest way to answer "what is she in on Tuesday".
- Open a scene row and you can preview the script for that scene without leaving the day.
Deleting a day frees its scenes
Deleting a shooting day does not delete anything from the production. The scenes it held go back to being unscheduled — they stay in the scene list, keep their content and their continuity, and become available to attach to another day.
So a day is a plan, not a container. Rescheduling is safe: delete the day, or move the scenes, and nothing about the scenes themselves changes.
Seasons work the same way
On a season, shooting days sit at the production level and draw scenes from the episodes. A day can be built from an episode's scenes exactly as a feature film's day is built from its own, and the episode's scene list shows the same shooting-day tags.
The thing that is not obvious
The schedule does not renumber or reorder your scenes. Scheduling scene 108 on the first day of the shoot changes nothing about scene 108's place in the script list — it stays where its number puts it. See how scenes are ordered for that side of it.
The two orders are independent on purpose. Script order is what the story is; shooting order is what the production does. Only the second one changes when the schedule changes.