# White pages > The first locked generation of a shooting script — white paper (or the unmarked digital baseline) before colored revision rounds begin. Also known as white draft ## In practice White pages are the first locked generation of a shooting script — white paper, or the unmarked digital baseline — before colored 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 color 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. ## Common questions ### Are white pages the same as a first draft? No. White pages are the locked production baseline. Your script may be draft four creatively and still not be a locked white-pages package. ### What does it mean if most of my script is still white? It means those page numbers have not been revised since lock. It is normal — not a grade. Colors appear only where production issued a replacement generation. ### Should I print a full white script after every rewrite? 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. ### Do white pages matter if we only use PDFs? Yes as vocabulary. Teams still call the locked baseline white and later generations by color name so everyone can ask for the same current set. ## Related terms - [Revision colors](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/revision-colours): The industry color sequence (white, blue, pink, yellow, and onward) used to mark each revision pass on a locked shooting script so the set knows which pages are current. - [Locked script](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/locked-script): A shooting draft whose page and scene numbers are frozen so every department shares one numbering scheme. After lock, changes become marked revisions instead of silently reshuffling the whole script. - [A-pages](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/a-pages): Inserted pages on a locked script that avoid renumbering everything after them — material between 27 and 28 becomes 27A, 27B, and so on. --- Canonical page: