Schedule guide

Build a shooting schedule

A free shooting schedule spreadsheet, with the Cinevaris screens for arranging scenes into shoot days.

Best when
Use this when your scenes are ready to be arranged into possible shoot days.
You'll leave with
A first shoot-day plan shaped around your scenes, people, places, and available time.

Building shoot days

Shooting schedule

One sheet per shoot day. Put scenes, setup, breaks and travel in shooting order.

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Project
Shoot date
Updated
StartDurationSceneLocationCastScript day / nightTiming notes

Backup plan

How to fill it in

Start and Duration are planned shooting times. Script day / night describes the scene, not the crew call.

Use a separate sheet for each shoot day. Give setup, meals, travel and pack-down their own rows.

Keep timing notes specific, such as "Finish the wide before we move the desk." This is an illustrative note. Use Backup plan below for an access or weather alternative.

Copy gives you tab-separated rows to paste into a document or spreadsheet. The workbook includes project details and notes; CSV contains the table only. This preview is for copying or printing; it does not save entries. Blank table previews show four rows; print or download for the full sheet.

Build a first pass

Build a shoot day from your scenes

30 seconds. Silent walkthrough with English captions using Real Friends. Crew and shoot details are fictional. Download video. Watch tutorial and read transcript

Group scenes by location and availability, then allow time for setup, travel and breaks. Keep the scene numbers when you change the order.

Open the workbook in Excel, or import it into Google Sheets. Use Start and Duration for the shooting plan; Script day / night describes the scene. This is a standalone worksheet, not a Cinevaris project import.

CheckCheck cast availability, location access, travel time, and daylight before confirming the day.

Arrange your shoot days in Cinevaris.

Cinevaris keeps the scene details, shot list, shoot days, and call sheet together while you find the plan that works.

In Cinevaris

Do this in Cinevaris

Building shoot days

Current Cinevaris Breakdown workspace
BreakdownScene details

Confirm the scene, location, cast, time-of-day, and practical notes you need before grouping days.

See Breakdown in the product tour