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What Is a Day Out of Days (DOOD)? Cast Scheduling Explained
A day out of days, usually called a DOOD, is a grid of every cast member against every shooting day. It marks the days each actor starts, works, is held and finishes, and it is what determines what they get paid.
Also called: DOOD · day-out-of-days report
Reading the grid
Cast run down one side, shooting days across the top. Each cell carries a code. SW is start work, W is a work day, H is hold, WF is work finish, and SWF covers an actor who starts and finishes on the same day.
Hold is the expensive one. An actor held between two work days is generally paid for the gap, so the same actor booked back to back costs a fraction of one scattered across three widely separated days. The stripboard will not show you that. The DOOD will.
Why it is generated rather than written
A DOOD falls out of two things you already have: which scenes sit on which day, and which cast are in which scenes. Reorder the board and the grid changes underneath you.
Keeping one current by hand next to a moving schedule is how cast days get miscounted, and cast days are the line item nobody wants to be wrong about.
