FREE WORKED EXAMPLE · FORSETIFEST

How a shorts block fills a room

This original fictional example can help you audit any festival schedule in a spreadsheet or on paper. The CSV and sample public program in this pack can be reused as templates. ForsetiFest itself is in the separate buyer ZIP.

Coastlines at 18:00

PartArithmeticElapsed
Introduction + trailers5:00 + 2:007:00
Three films7:30 + 11:20 + 9:1028:00
Between-film gaps2 × 1:002:00
Q&A + end buffer12:00 + 4:0016:00
Published show7:00 + 28:00 + 2:00 + 16:0053:00

Film starts: 18:07:00, 18:15:30 and 18:27:50. The show ends at 18:53:00. A 10:00 room turnaround makes the earliest next start 19:03:00. At 19:02:59, the room is still in turnaround. The last film has no trailing gap.

What the editor shows

Actual ForsetiFest block builder with a 53-minute Coastlines calculation

The screenshot is from a running ForsetiFest 1.0.0 with fictional Harbor Lights data. This guide does not include the app.