Glossary

Production and SceneItAll terms used throughout this help center. Use it to look up a word you don’t recognize.

Script terms

Action — narrative description in a screenplay that tells the reader what happens on screen. Also called direction or scene description.

Dialogue — lines spoken by a character, shown with the character name centered above the lines.

INT. / EXT. — abbreviations for interior and exterior. They start a scene heading to show whether the scene is indoors or outdoors. SceneItAll also recognizes INT/EXT and I/E.

Montage — a sequence of short scenes edited together, usually to show the passage of time or a series of related moments.

Parenthetical — a short direction in parentheses below a character name and above the dialogue, indicating how a line is delivered (for example, “(whispering)”).

Scene heading (slug line) — the bold, all-caps line that starts each scene and names the Set and time of day, such as INT. POLICE STATION - NIGHT.

Set — the in-story place named in a scene’s slug line (for example, POLICE STATION), managed as its own record. A scene can be linked to a set.

Location — a real-world filming address you manage as its own record. A scene can be linked to a location.

Screenplay — the written script for a film or television episode, formatted to industry conventions.

Secondary heading — a sub-location or extra heading within a scene, often used when moving between rooms in one general place.

Transition — a direction for how one scene moves to the next, such as CUT TO:, FADE IN:, or DISSOLVE TO:.

Revision terms

Revision — a draft of a script. Each revision has a version label and, optionally, a revision color.

Revision color — an industry-standard color assigned to each draft to track changes. The order is White (first draft), Blue, Pink, Yellow, Green, Goldenrod, Buff, Salmon, Cherry, Tan, Gray. See Revision colors.

Breakdown terms

Breakdown — analyzing a script scene by scene to identify everything production needs: cast, props, wardrobe, vehicles, effects, and more.

Element — any item identified in a breakdown that production must plan for. Elements are grouped by type.

Element type — a category for elements. SceneItAll has 26 types, including Characters, Stunts, Extras, Props, and Vehicles. See the element type reference for the full list with colors.

Scene split — dividing one script scene into multiple production scenes, typically when a scene spans different times of day or needs different setups.

Synopsis — a short summary of what happens in a scene. You can write it yourself or generate it with AI.

Crew terms

Call sheet — a daily document sent to cast and crew listing call times, locations, the scenes to shoot, and other production information.

Cast list — the actors in a production, with their characters, contact details, agencies, and managers.

Crew list — crew members grouped by department, often shared with stakeholders through a secure link.

Department — an organizational unit of the crew, such as Camera, Lighting, Art, Wardrobe, or Sound.

DOOD (Day Out of Days) — a chart of each cast member’s working status across every shoot day. Status codes are SW (Start Work), W (Work), WF (Work + Fitting), SWF (Start Work + Fitting), H (Hold), T (Travel), R (Rehearsal), F (Fitting), WD (Work + Drop), and D (Drop).

Head of department (HOD) — the lead of a crew department, such as the director of photography for Camera.

Mailing list — a list of email addresses gathered for sending production communications to cast and crew.

AI terms

Continuity warning — an issue flagged when something doesn’t add up across scenes, such as a night scene that follows a morning scene with no time transition.

Detection proposal — a set of AI-suggested elements found in a script. You review each suggestion and accept, reject, or change it before it’s applied.

Element detection — the AI process of reading scene text and identifying the production elements mentioned in it.

Scheduling terms

Banner — a non-scene row on the strip board that marks an event in a shoot day, such as a company move, meal, travel, or safety meeting.

Change marker — an indicator that flags a wardrobe, makeup, or hair change for a cast member between scenes. It can be detected by AI or added by hand.

Conflict — a scheduling problem detected when a rule is broken, such as insufficient turnaround between days, exceeding daily hours, or an element being double-booked.

Day type — the classification of a schedule day: shooting, prep, travel, hiatus, weekend, holiday, weather, or wrap.

Full fat schedule — a detailed, day-grouped schedule showing complete breakdown information for each scene, with all tagged elements by category.

One-liner — a compact schedule with one line per scene, grouped by shoot day, for quick reference and distribution.

Production unit — a crew that operates separately, such as Main Unit or 2nd Unit. Strips can be assigned to a unit.

Scenario — a named version of a schedule. Multiple scenarios let you plan alternatives (for example, “Weather cover” or “Revised order”) and compare them. A scenario can be locked to prevent changes.

Shoot day — a numbered day in the schedule on which filming takes place. Shoot days are sequential (Day 1, Day 2) and may not match calendar dates.

Sides — selected scenes pulled from a script for a specific shoot day, for distribution to cast and crew. You can filter them by character or department.

Strip — a single row on the strip board representing a scene to film. It carries the scene number, set, page count, cast, and status, and is named after the cardboard strips of traditional production boards.

Strip board — the main scheduling surface, showing all strips organized by shoot day, with drag-and-drop reordering.

Strip status — the state of a strip: scheduled, shooting, completed, omitted, or held.

General terms

Episode — a container for scripts. In a TV series it maps to one episode; for a film you can use a single episode for the whole script.

Project — the top-level container for one production. All scripts, episodes, crew, and breakdowns belong to a project.

Script settings — project-level configuration for how scripts are parsed and displayed.