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What Is a Daily Production Report? The DPR Explained
A daily production report, or DPR, is the sheet the production office files at the end of every shooting day: what was scheduled, what was actually shot, and the gap between the two.
Also called: DPR · daily progress report · production report
What goes on one
Times first, in pairs. Crew call and the call that was actually made, first shot scheduled against first shot achieved, meal in and out, camera wrap. The variance between the two columns is the number the report exists for.
Then the day itself: scenes shot with their page counts, setups completed against setups planned, cast who worked, company moves, meal penalties, and anything that went wrong. Pages are counted in eighths, the same unit the schedule uses, so a day can be compared against the board it came from.
Who reads it
The production office, the line producer, and on a bonded show the completion guarantor. It is the document that answers whether the schedule is holding, and it is read the morning after rather than on the day.
A run of DPRs is also the evidence behind a claim. If a day was lost to weather or a location fell through, the paperwork is what the insurer asks for.
Why the breaks belong on it
A report that lists only scenes cannot explain where the hours went. Load-in, a camera rig going on and coming off a picture car, the company move, camera wrap: those are the day as much as the scenes are, and a report that drops them makes an eleven-hour night look like four setups.
