Drag the strips. It keeps the count.
For the 1st AD and the UPM. The stripboard you already think in, with the arithmetic carried for you. Time each day to the minute, and fifteen checks watch for the overloaded day, the day and night mix, the turnaround squeezed too tight.
The board, in the colours it has always worn.
Scenes wait in the rack until you deal them into days. Drag a strip anywhere: into a day, back to the rack, up and down inside a day. A century of muscle memory, kept.
Strips, racked and dealt.
- The real palette: yellow EXT day, green EXT night, white INT day, blue INT night
- Every strip carries scene, location, INT/EXT, time of day, synopsis and length in eighths
- Undo and redo on every move, with a trash you can restore from
Lunch is on the board too.
- Meals, company moves, travel, reloads, weather holds and custom banners, on the board as strips
- Editable labels, colours and durations; “2h30m” and “45m” both read
- A meal comes off the shooting clock on its own
Move one time, the day re-times itself.
Every scene and break gets a start, a length and an end. Change one and the rest of the day shifts to match.
Pin the things that cannot move.
- Start, length and end on every row, each one editable
- Anchors pin a fixed time, the day flows around them
- Time the day from page count, to fit a wrap, or by hand
- Gaps and overlaps surface on the row, not in a report
Fifteen checks, before the day goes sideways.
The board watches while you build it, and the day-out-of-days fills itself in from the strips. The numbers a UPM gets asked to defend are always the current ones.
It flags the heavy day as you build.
- Fifteen checks: overloads, day/night mix, multiple locations, missing dates and call times, duplicates, dates out of order, overnights, turnaround, actor day streaks, meal penalties, wrap overruns, unscheduled scenes
- Limits set to your show, your numbers, not ours
- Dismiss per day when the warning is wrong and you are right
SW to WF, filled in for you.
- The standard codes off the strips: SW, W, WF, SWF, H
- See it as a stripboard, a timetable, or a day-out-of-days
- Reorder the board and the matrix keeps up on its own
Synced from the script, into the call sheet.
The board doesn’t start empty, and it doesn’t end on your screen. Scenes arrive from the script, and a finished day walks straight onto the call sheet and out to the office.
The rest of the kit.
Scriptwriter
Live co-writing, Fountain & FDX.
TOOL 01 →Script breakdown
Tag the page, fill your lists.
TOOL 02 →Shotlist
Every setup, planned.
TOOL 03 →Storyboard
Frames beside the shots.
TOOL 04 →Canvas
Pin the look on one board.
TOOL 05 →Cast & crew
People and lists, in sync.
TOOL 06 →Budget
Quoted against actual.
TOOL 07 →Locations
Scouted, pinned, permitted.
TOOL 08 →Call sheets
Built from the schedule.
TOOL 10 →Get in early.
Curtyn is in open beta and free to use. Every tool, one project, and the people who need to see it. Start free and bring your production in.