Film scheduling software for
the order you actually shoot in.

Yes. Storyflow runs in the browser with nothing to install: the AI builds a strip board of shoot days from the breakdown, you drag strips to reorder them, and the crew opens the schedule by view-only link with no account. StudioBinder and Yamdu also schedule on web stripboards, inside production suites with reports and call sheet distribution. Movie Magic Scheduling, long used on studio and union productions, is installed desktop software.

It turns the script breakdown into a shooting order. Each scene becomes a strip with its number, INT or EXT, day or night, location, cast and page count; strips are grouped into shoot days around locations, cast, light and turnaround; and the schedule produces the one-line schedule, the day out of days and each day's call sheet. Dedicated suites add conflict detection and multi-unit scheduling. Storyflow builds the strip board with AI beside the shot lists and call sheets.

Mostly locations, cast availability, time of day and turnaround. A location is shot out before the crew moves, because company moves cost hours. Actors' scenes are clustered to avoid paid hold days and fit stop dates. Dawn, dusk and night scenes are fixed to their light, and night exteriors share nights. Turnaround, the rest between wrap and the next call, limits what can follow a late day. Children's hours, animals, weather cover and rentals add further limits.

They say what kind of scene a strip is before anyone reads it. By common convention, white is interior day, yellow exterior day, blue interior night and green exterior night, with other colours for dusk, dawn and banners such as day breaks. Productions sometimes adapt the scheme, so the key belongs on the board. Storyflow's strip board sets each strip's colour from its INT or EXT and time of day, so the code stays consistent.

Not as an automatic report. Each strip carries its scene's cast, so you can ask which days an actor works and the AI reads it off the strip board, or lay the cast-by-day grid out as a table beside the schedule. It does not recalculate a day out of days when a strip moves. Movie Magic Scheduling, StudioBinder and Yamdu generate day out of days reports, which matters when hold days drive a cast budget.

It depends on the production. Four to six pages a day is a common target for narrative scenes, fewer for action, stunts, effects or heavy coverage, and more for simple dialogue on a controlled set. Page counts are measured in eighths and are estimates, because one line of action can take an afternoon. Commercials and music videos are scheduled by setups and light. Storyflow totals each day's pages and names any day that comes out heavy.

Turnaround is the rest period owed to cast and crew between wrapping one day and being called the next, usually set by union agreements or contracts. It matters most around night shoots and long days: a late wrap pushes the next call later, which can cost the morning light a scene needed. A schedule that ignores turnaround breaks the rules or loses hours, so night days and early days are ordered with it in mind.

Movie Magic Scheduling, from Entertainment Partners, is installed software for Mac and Windows with breakdown sheets, drag-and-drop stripboards, multi-episode management, unit coordination, conflict detection and day out of days reports. Storyflow runs in the browser, builds the breakdown and strip board with AI, and keeps them on one board with the shot lists, references and call sheets that the crew opens by link. For a large union feature or a TV series, Movie Magic Scheduling has depth Storyflow does not.

StudioBinder schedules on a web stripboard built from the imported script, with banners, a boneyard, call sheets and reports including day out of days. Yamdu adds real-time day out of days, call sheets, budgeting and time cards. Storyflow builds the strip board with AI from the breakdown and keeps it on a visual board with the storyboard, shot lists, references and locations. Choose a suite for reports and administration, Storyflow for speed and one shared board.

Yes. Without a formatted script, give the AI a list of scenes, setups or looks with their locations and light, and it groups them into shoot days on a strip board. A commercial is ordered by location and lighting setup around product and talent availability, a music video around locations, playback and the artist's hours, and a photoshoot around sets and talent. Each day's call sheet comes from the same board, which the client opens by view-only link.

Not yet. Storyflow is paid-only during early access, with plans from $7.99 a month billed annually ($9.99 monthly). A free plan launches before the end of 2026, and anyone a paid member invites to a board joins free, so an AD or coordinator scheduling with you does not need a plan. Crew who only read the schedule open a view-only link with no account. Plus includes unlimited boards, images, files and links, and AI usage that renews.