Professional Stripboard Template for Excel
Color-coded strips, day breaks, and DOOD-ready cast counts in a digital stripboard you can ship to anyone. Built in standard Excel — no Movie Magic license required.
- Format
- Excel (.xlsx)
- Best for
- Features, shorts, episodic
- Pairs with
- DOOD + Shot List
- License
- Free for commercial use
Why this template
Let's face it. Scheduling can be hard.
A stripboard is the spine of a film schedule — and the document everyone above the line wants to see before they sign. Get it right and prep runs itself; get it wrong and the production falls a day behind on day one.
We built this template for teams who would rather not pay for Movie Magic Scheduling just to ship a stripboard. It is not as feature-rich, but it covers the cases an indie or commercial production actually needs: strips, day breaks, page counts, INT/EXT, day/night, cast IDs, and a clean export to PDF.
What's inside
Strips, day breaks, and cast counts in one editable file.
Each row is a strip; each color block is an INT/EXT or day/night change; each break is a shooting day.
Color-coded strips
Conventional INT/EXT, day/night colors so the board reads the way every working AD expects.
Scene + page count
Auto-calculating page counts per strip and per shooting day.
Day breaks
Drag rows to reorder, drop a day-break to split the schedule, and totals re-sum.
Cast ID columns
Numbered columns so a glance at a strip tells you who's working.
Locations & sets
Group by location for company moves and consolidated shoot days.
DOOD-ready
Cast IDs match the DOOD template so you can build both side by side.
Stripboards 101
Making a stripboard schedule for your film.
A stripboard collapses your script into one row per scene, then lets you reorder those rows until the production day makes sense. Group your INT scenes at one location, fit the night work into one block, and back-load anything that depends on weather or hero builds.
Once the strips are roughed in, you drop in day breaks to mark out shooting days. The pages and scenes that fall inside each shooting day is what you'll defend in a UPM meeting — and the order of those days is the document you'll hand to the location manager and 1st AD.
When the schedule changes (and it always changes), the stripboard is the first document you update — then propagate to the DOOD, the call sheets, and the production calendar.
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Customizable
Standard Excel rows and dropdowns. Re-order strips, swap day for night, and the totals follow you.
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Professional
The same conventions a working AD or UPM expects to see — INT/EXT, day/night, day breaks — without the Movie Magic price tag.
- 03
Beautiful
Hand-laid color coding so the board reads at a glance. Day numbers, page counts, and cast IDs all in their right place.
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Free
Download, edit, share. No watermark, no email loop, no upsell.
Already on Movie Magic?
Export your MMS schedule straight into Excel.
If you're scheduling in Movie Magic but the rest of the team works in Excel or Google Sheets, our exporter turns your MMS schedule into a clean stripboard your team can read without buying a license.
Pair it with
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