ABSTRACT
Scheduling is at the heart of the production management role, looking after the day-to-day running of the project. Once again we will be able to make use of lists and templates in order to begin to put together schedules so that the production can be managed efficiently and coherently. Again, the strong recommendation would be to use a spreadsheet. This kind of computer software enables the creation of documents which are very simple, and yet capable of development into spreadsheets of great sophistication and complexity. This flexibility is invaluable in the
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download and may be adapted to your own particular requirements. One of the outstanding advantages of the use of spreadsheets in this context is that they can serve as a central gathering place for all the practical information needed for scheduling and can be updated as details fall into place when, for example, locations are confirmed and arrangements are made. A central spreadsheet for this information can also be used to generate other documents, such as call sheets and contact sheets, as they are required. As in earlier chapters, we will look first at scheduling for a simple factual programme and then go on to see how the basic principles are applied in drama, again at a fairly simple level.
