The production schedule is a

project plan A project plan, according to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), is: "...a formal, approved document used to guide both ''project execution'' and ''project control''. The primary uses of the project plan are to document planning as ...

of how the production budget will be spent over a given timescale, for every phase of a business project. The scheduling process starts with the script, which is analysed and broken down, scene by scene, onto a sequence of breakdown sheets, each of which records the resources required to execute the scene. These resources include: * Cast Actors * Special Effects * Wardrobe * Special Equipment * Stunts * Extras/Silent Bits * Props * Make-up/Hair * Extras/Atmosphere * Vehicles/Animals * Sound Effects/Music * Production Notes * Others From the breakdown sheets, the Production Manager compiles a

production board A traditional production board, stripboard, or production strip is a filmmaking term for a cardboard or wooden chart displaying color-coded strips of paper, each containing information about a scene in the film's shooting script. The strips can then ...

which is used as the basis for a shooting schedule for every day of the shoot.

References

* ''Film Scheduling'' by Dennis . King (2nd Ed, 1991) * ''Film Production Management'' by

Bastian Clevé Bastian Clevé (born 1 January 1950, in Munich), is a German filmmaker and producer. He is Professor and Head of the Film Production-Department at the Film Academy Baden-Wuerttemberg in Ludwigsburg, Germany. Biography Clevé grew up in Hambur ...

(2nd Ed, 2000) * ''The Complete Film Production Handbook'' (3rd Ed, 2001)
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in Microsoft Office Excel by Eddy Grabczewski (2006) Film production {{filmmaking-stub

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