Stripboard and calendar
Drag strips between days or straight onto a date in the calendar, add day breaks and banners, undo every step. Cast IDs are never cut off - the strip grows instead.
Demo project with invented scenes. Strip colours are the Blockshot Studio set - or yours, straight from your file.
Opens .msd filesFrom Movie Magic Scheduling 6, with a check of everything that came in - and exports back to it.
Runs in the browserNothing to install. Chrome, Edge and Safari on Mac or PC. Keeps working offline on set.
Autosaves to the cloudServers in the EU (Frankfurt). Download a file whenever you want.
English and CzechGerman, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Portuguese are on the way.
What's inside
Overview, control, certainty. Everything clicks into place.
Your whole crew in the loop
Invite heads of department and producers to follow the latest schedule. They comment on a strip or a day and send suggested changes - you decide what goes in. Publish a version and everyone gets it by email.
Reports that print right
One Line Report, Full Fat, Breakdown, Day Out of Days and the stripboard itself - on A4 or US Letter, as PDF or Excel.
Your own layouts
Design strips, reports and calendar printouts on a real page preview - or bring in the layouts already saved in your .msd files.
Script import from PDF
Drop in the PDFs: scene headings, eighths and speaking characters come in as breakdown sheets. Print sides for any shooting day.
Units and conflicts
Run a second unit alongside the main one. Blockshot flags an actor booked twice on the same day or scheduled against a red flag.
Coming from Movie Magic?
Open your schedule. Keep working.
Blockshot reads your .msd files with their boards, breakdown sheets, elements, calendars, colours and layouts - and shows a check report of everything that came in and anything it can't use. It also checks that a copy saved by Blockshot matches your original file.
When someone on the production still uses MMS 6, export a regular .msd and send it over.
- 1Open the .msd
Drag it into the browser window and see what came in. - 2Schedule as usual
Stripboard, calendar, reports - saved to your account as you go. - 3Export when you need to
A .msd for MMS 6, PDF for the crew, Excel for production.
Early access · Founding 8
Schedule your next job in Blockshot.
We invite assistant directors and production teams in small groups, so every request gets read. Tell us a little about your work and we will be in touch. Everything on this page works today; we are still fine-tuning, and what you report gets fixed fast.
- Free during early access
- Your schedules stay yours - export them any time
- Direct line to the person building it
- The first 8 ADs to subscribe keep their price for as long as they stay
Questions
Do I need Movie Magic to use Blockshot?
No. Blockshot is a scheduling tool on its own - start a new schedule from a template or a PDF script. Opening and exporting .msd is there for when you or your production still work with MMS 6.
Where are my schedules stored?
In your account, on servers in Frankfurt, EU (encrypted nightly backups are stored with GitHub in the US). Only you and the people you invite can open them. You can download any schedule as a Blockshot file or a .msd at any time.
Is my script safe?
Your scripts and schedules sit in your own account on servers in Frankfurt, EU. For a script under NDA, choose "script only on this computer": the PDF never leaves your computer and only the breakdown goes to the cloud. We never sell your data; only the providers that run the service process it for us (listed in the Privacy policy), and we do not look at it unless you ask us to help with a problem.
Does it print on A4 and US Letter?
Yes. Every report and the stripboard itself print on A4 or US Letter, as PDF or Excel - with a real page preview before you print.
What does it cost?
Early access is free. After launch, an individual licence costs $197 a year or $28.88 a month, and a production licence for the whole AD team costs $12.68 per shooting day, never more than $629 per project, prep days free - in the US, the UK, Western and Northern Europe and other high-income countries; less elsewhere. Try it free for 30 days. Students use it free.
What happens to my schedules after early access?
They stay in your account. We will announce the end of early access and any pricing at least 30 days ahead, and you can download every schedule as a Blockshot file or a .msd at any time.
Can my team work on the same schedule?
Yes. Your AD team edits the schedule, while heads of department and producers follow the latest schedule read-only, comment and suggest changes. Everyone sees who else is in the schedule right now.
Which languages?
English and Czech now. German, French, Spanish, Italian, Polish and Brazilian Portuguese are being checked with working ADs. You can print reports in a different language than the one you work in.