Build a day-out-of-days for your cast in seconds: mark the days each actor works and get SW / W / H / WF codes with hold and work-day totals, ready to print. Free, no sign-up.
A day out of days (DOOD) is the production report that shows, for every cast member, which days they start, work, hold and finish across the shooting schedule. Assistant directors and production coordinators use it to plan bookings, contracts and payroll at a glance — one row per actor, one column per shooting day.
SW — start-work: the actor’s first day on the schedule. W — work: any working day between the first and the last. H — hold: an idle day that falls between two work days; the actor isn’t on set but is still attached to the production. WF — work-finish: the actor’s last day. SWF — starts and finishes on the same single day.
On union productions, held days are typically paid days — every H in the matrix is money. A schedule that clusters an actor’s scenes together reduces holds, which is why the day out of days sits right next to the stripboard when you decide the order of your shooting days.
Add your cast, set the number of shooting days, then click the days each actor works. Start, work, hold and finish codes compute automatically, with per-actor work and hold totals and a per-day cast count. Print it for the production binder — or plan the whole schedule (stripboard, day out of days and call sheets together, straight from your script) on Mooiev, free to start.