Stripboard Generator

A stripboard is the traditional tool a first assistant director uses to plan a shoot: one strip per scene, color-coded by interior/exterior and day/night, arranged in shoot order rather than script order. Grouping scenes this way — by location and cast availability instead of the order they appear in the screenplay — is how a real production schedule gets built. A scene that's page 90 in the script might shoot on day one, because that's when the location and the cast are actually available.

The standard color code — white for interior day, yellow for exterior day, blue for interior night, green for exterior night — lets a production office scan a stack of strips and immediately understand the shape of a shoot day without reading every scene description in full. This follows common US production convention.

How this generator works

Add a strip for each scene — scene number, INT/EXT and DAY/NIGHT, a short description, location, cast numbers, and page count — and the strip colors itself automatically to match the standard convention. Use the up/down arrows to reorder strips into your actual planned shoot order. When it looks right, use Print / Export PDF to save a clean, color-coded stripboard — no account required.

A stripboard answers what order; it has no calendar in it. Once the order is right, the free shooting schedule generator answers what day — it packs these strips into dated shoot days against a page-per-day ceiling, skips your rest days, and flags every company move.

This tool gives you a static, manually-ordered stripboard. If you want the strips generated and grouped automatically from your actual script — cast, locations, and elements pulled directly from a breakdown instead of typed in by hand — The Story Maker's in-product scheduling tool builds the stripboard and Day-Out-of-Days schedule directly from your script breakdown.