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Method Schedule 0.1.0

The first release: a free, open scheduling app for film and TV that keeps your schedule in a plain file you own. It is an early alpha, for trying things out on invented productions before you trust it with a real shoot.

From script to stripboard

The stripboard of Field Station, an invented production: four shoot days of scenes, banners and day breaks

  • Import a script. Fountain (.fountain) and .fdx scripts come in as one breakdown sheet per scene, with their page lengths, and later drafts merge into the schedule you already have.
  • Break it down. Cast, props, wardrobe, vehicles and every other category on each sheet, with quick add and elements you can link, merge and renumber.
  • Schedule on a stripboard. Drag strips into days, add banners and day breaks, break the board automatically by pages or time, and keep several boards and sub-boards for different plans.
  • Three looks. Paper, the default, follows your computer's light or dark setting; Graphite is always dark; Ledger is a full-color board like a printed one. Choose in Settings.

Counts you can check

The day out of days for Field Station: each cast member's work days across the shoot

  • Day out of days. Start, work, hold, travel and finish for every element, with holds, drops and holidays following the rules schedulers use.
  • Explain this count. Ask why any number is what it is, and see the reasoning date by date.
  • Calendar, conflicts and red flags. Days off, events and holidays on a calendar; elements booked twice and dates an actor can't work are marked on the strips.

Paper and files

  • Print and save as PDF. The board, one-line and shooting schedules, the day out of days, element lists, the calendar and a call sheet for any shoot day.
  • Spreadsheets. .xlsx and .csv files for the reports that are tables.
  • Hand the shoot days to Method Budget. Export for Budget writes the shoot days and each element's work days for the budget to read.
  • Your file, safe. Autosave, recovery after a crash, backups you can revert to, and a question when someone else changes the file while it's open, with a merge.

For the command line and coding agents

The method-schedule command listing Field Station's shoot days

  • The same schedule from a terminal. Check, report, export and merge from the command line, and a git merge driver for schedules kept in git.
  • Coding agents. An MCP server lets an assistant read and edit schedules on your computer, only in the folders you name.

Known gaps

  • Windows and Linux builds are made automatically but nobody has installed them yet. The Windows installer is unsigned, so Windows shows a warning before it runs.
  • Printing uses Letter paper only.
  • Updates: this release checks for newer versions, but there is nothing newer to find yet.

Thanks

  • masyarakatai, for the contrast check on the Graphite and Ledger looks and for daylight saving in Australia's south-east and New Zealand.
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