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NICKY EARNSHAW

The first person to do the schedule may be the line producer, or it may be the first assistant director. Even if the line producer does the first pass, the first assistant director takes it over very fairly early on and makes it their own. Initially it tells you- it's crucial, the schedule, for knowing everything about the project, not just how many days or weeks your shoot is going to last for, but where you need to shoot, whether your interiors, exteriors, as in, are you building? Are you on location? Are you out in the countryside? Are you in a town?

There's various reports that you can run from a schedule, including your stunt days, your cast days, even things like your action vehicle days. If you've got lots of extras, it will give you what we call a day-out-of-day for the background, the supporting artists. It's a blueprint, really, for everything, and each department takes something- everybody takes global information. Each department takes their information as well.