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Production schedule

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ7247843 ↗
Source-derived summary

The production schedule is a project plan 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 which is used as the basis for a shooting schedule for every day of the shoot.

See also

Breaking down the script

References

Film Scheduling by Dennis .

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This entry incorporates text from “Production schedule” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.