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Golden Hour
aka Magic hour
The brief window just after sunrise or before sunset when daylight is warm, soft and low — prized by cinematographers and a scheduling headache for ADs.
Golden hour (or magic hour) is the short stretch around sunrise and sunset when the sun is low, the light is warm and soft, and shadows are long. DPs chase it for its flattering, cinematic quality; ADs dread it because the usable window is often 20 to 40 minutes and cannot be moved. Scheduling a golden-hour exterior means everything else bends around the clock. StoryboardCanvas Calendar computes sunrise, sunset, golden-hour and blue-hour windows per shoot day from the location coordinates, so an exterior that needs the magic gets scheduled against real daylight, not a guess.
In StoryboardCanvas
See Golden Hour live in /calendar
Every golden hour we generate stays linked to the rest of the project — change a scene heading and the golden hour updates automatically. No re-import. No copy-paste. One project file from script to wrap.
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Stripboard
A vertical strip per scene colour-coded by INT/EXT and DAY/NIGHT, arranged into shoot days so the production can be scheduled by location and time-of-day clusters.
Call Sheet
The one-page (or two-page) document sent to every cast and crew member the night before a shoot day with their call time, wardrobe time, scenes shooting, and locations.