Also known as white draft
The first locked generation of a shooting script — white paper (or the unmarked digital baseline) before coloured revision rounds begin.
White pages are the first locked generation of a shooting script -- white paper, or the unmarked digital baseline -- before coloured revision rounds begin. They are not a synonym for "first draft." Your story may already be draft four creatively and still not be a locked white-pages package for prep.
Once blue or pink pages go out, "white" means the unchanged leftover pages from the original lock, not "the good pages." Production tracks the mix carefully so nobody rehearses an obsolete line from a pocket copy that never received the pink revision issued for that page number on the locked continuum.
On set, the practical question is always currency: which colour is latest for each page number. Keep your own binder or PDF set synchronized with the production office; a beautiful white stack with three missing pinks is how wrong dialogue reaches camera on an already busy shoot day.
No. White pages are the locked production baseline. Your first draft may be draft four creatively and still not be a locked white-pages package.
It means those page numbers have not been revised since lock. It is normal -- not a grade. Colours appear only where production issued a replacement generation.
After lock, productions usually issue changed pages (and A-pages) rather than reprinting the entire book each time. Full reissues happen, but they are deliberate, not the nightly default.
Yes as vocabulary. Teams still call the locked baseline white and later generations by colour name so everyone can ask for the same current set.
