The sequence
This is the order most productions use, with the first revision after the white draft coming out on blue:
| Revision | Color | Header example |
|---|---|---|
| Production draft | White | WHITE DRAFT 09/08/26 |
| 1st | Blue | BLUE REVISIONS 09/22/26 |
| 2nd | Pink | PINK REVISIONS 09/29/26 |
| 3rd | Yellow | YELLOW REVISIONS 10/03/26 |
| 4th | Green | GREEN REVISIONS 10/09/26 |
| 5th | Goldenrod | GOLDENROD REVISIONS 10/14/26 |
| 6th | Buff | BUFF REVISIONS 10/20/26 |
| 7th | Salmon | SALMON REVISIONS 10/24/26 |
| 8th | Cherry | CHERRY REVISIONS 10/30/26 |
After cherry, the lists differ. Tan, gray, and ivory are common next colors, and some published orders put cherry before salmon or tan. When the colors run out, the cycle restarts as double white, double blue, and so on. Some UK productions swap the first two (white, pink, blue). Use whatever list the production office sends out, and put it on the cover of every revision.
What a revised page looks like
A blue page 31 from the table above carries the revision header in the top right, an asterisk in the right margin beside every changed line, and the original page number:
BLUE REVISIONS 09/22/26 31.
42 EXT. GAS STATION - NIGHT 42
Rain hammers the pumps. MAYA pulls up to pump 4. *
A TRUCKER (50s) watches from his rig. *
The cover sheet for the set lists every changed page: "Blue pages: 1, 12, 31, 31A, 44, 47." Crew members pull their old pages and swap in the new ones. If the change adds material, you get A-pages; if it cuts a scene, you get an omitted scene.
What each revision means for the breakdown
That blue page adds a trucker. For the script breakdown, that's a new cast member (or an upgraded background actor), probably a picture vehicle, and maybe a wardrobe fitting. Someone has to update scene 42's breakdown sheet, the strip, the cast list, and possibly the budget.
The practical habit: when revision pages arrive, read only the asterisked lines, list every element added or removed, and push those changes to each department the same day. Department heads each work from their own copy of the script, and a crew member who missed the pink pages is working from wrong information.
Mixed-color scripts
By the middle of a shoot, a script is a stack of colors. Page 12 might be yellow, page 13 white, page 31 green. That's normal. The color of each page tells you the last time it changed, and the most recent color in the stack tells you whether your copy is current. The shooting script page covers how the full production draft is put together, and our script revision colors post goes into how writers' offices manage the process.