How to read the Day Out of Days

The Day Out of Days shows, for each cast member, which shoot days they work, hold, or are off. Storiara fills it in from the stripboard, so it's only as accurate as the schedule and the character assignments behind it.

Steps

1. Open Schedule and click Day Out of Days in the tabs under the header.
2. Read across a row. The pinned column on the left holds the cast number and name, then one column per calendar day headed with the weekday, the date, and its day number (D1, D2) or Off or Hol. It stays put while the days scroll sideways.
3. Read the totals on the right: Work, Hold, Other (travel, rehearsal, fittings), Hol, Drop, Paid, then Start and Finish.
4. Check the legend above the grid if a code is unfamiliar. It shows only the codes in use.
5. To change a code, click the cell and pick one. A dot in the corner marks a cell you entered by hand.
6. The foot of the grid counts Cast working per day and totals every column.

How the codes are filled in

A cast member counts as working on a day when a scene with their character is scheduled on it. From there:

• the first work day is SW (start work) and the last is WF (work finish)
• a single work day is SWF
• work days in between are W
• a shoot day inside their span with none of their scenes is H (hold)
• a company travel day inside the span is T, a company holiday is HOL, and a dark day is OFF
• days before they start and after they finish are I (not engaged)

Drops are worked out for you. When the gap between two work days is longer than the SAG-AFTRA consecutive employment window (more than 10 calendar days, once per performer), the last day of the first stint becomes WD, the gap becomes D, and the return is PW, or PWF if it's their last day. R (rehearsal), SR, and FT (fitting) are yours to enter.

Here's a worked example on a 10-day shoot with no weekend in the middle. An actor has scenes on Days 2, 3, and 7. The grid reads I, SW, W, H, H, H, WF, then I, I, I. Paid counts work days, holds, travel, rehearsal, fittings, and paid holidays, so it reads 6: three work days and three holds. The gap here is under the window, so they stay on hold and you pay for it. Push that last scene past the window and the same actor drops and is picked up instead, which changes the cast budget. The drop/pickup entry explains the idea.

The budget uses the same paid-day total for cast lines.

If it doesn't work

• "No shooting days scheduled yet" means there's no production schedule and nothing on the stripboard.
• A row of all I usually means the person isn't assigned to a character. Assign them on the Cast & Crew page.
• Missing someone? Only people on the Cast tab appear. Crew, locations, and gear aren't in this grid.

The printer icon prints this view in landscape when Day Out of Days is selected, and Export writes it as a PDF or an Excel file. More on the view is in the DOOD guide.