Stripboard in practice
The board began as cardboard strips in a folding frame and is now mostly software, but the logic has not changed. Each strip carries the scene number, the set, interior or exterior, day or night, the page count and the cast needed. Colors mark the type of scene, and black strips separate the days.
Moving strips is how an assistant director tests ideas: what happens if the lead actor is only free for six days, or if the rooftop must be shot before the first snow.
Where it lives in CrewDesk
CrewDesk is not a stripboard tool. It takes over once the order is decided: the shoot days go in the calendar and the work to prepare each day becomes tasks. A stripboard view can be added in a custom build.