ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the scheduling movie-how to break down script and arrive at an accurate shooting schedule. All of that information on film scheduling remains, but because the producer have received a number of questions about scheduling as it relates to the filmmaking process as a whole, we decided that some of those questions should be addressed here. The producer refers to scheduling as preliminary at this point because it is the job of the first assistant director to arrive at a more formal schedule once the availability of the actors has been determined and locations begin to fall into place. However, for the line producer, preliminary scheduling is a necessary step to budgeting a film and is the basis on which will secure cast, crew, locations, extras, equipment, and so on. The producer schedules and budgets for a Screen Actors Guild (SAG) cast and operating within SAG parameters.
