I have not wrote my own call sheet before and I didn't not know where to start or what to write so I need to do some research, I have seen call sheets before as I worked on a low budget feature and they sent call sheets the night before with the details of what seems they were shooting and what time we was starting, now I know that I do not want to be emailing people call sheets hours before we are due to start so I want to have as much detail and them done as much as I can so people know weeks before ruffly what we are doing on what day of the week. When i worked for the BBC they would send the call sheet out of Friday evening for the show on Sunday which was about 4 pages of people and information.
I went looking for information to see what I could find out about call sheets and what basic information needs to go onto the sheet, this website has a step by step of what I should write and what I don't need to include. The website was really helpful and even gave me templates along with the advice and examples, but the website also has other useful items for not just producing.
The basics start at the title of the production at the top of the page along with the location, date and the weather, but in our case I can't predict the weather 3 months in advance so I have left it blank till nearer the date. This should also include the sunset and rise in small in the weather box. The location is important and all the details especially postcode for the sat nav and if possible a map, also the location and address of the nearest hospital is very important.
The time of the big break (lunch or dinner) should be at the top near the call time so people know when they will get to break, and a wrap time.
The scene numbers and description so people know what scene that are in on that day and what they need to wear so then know if they get breaks in-between and if they are not in that day at all.
Important numbers such as producers and runner numbers should be on the call sheet incase someone needs it but the rest of the numbers should be with the producer or head runner.
This call sheet is a template/example for the website above, as you can see it is in really good detail and is 2 pages long but it covers a lot of aspects, such as travel arrangements and health and safety. This I felt was a good example as it is a call sheet especially designed for TV short dramas but I do however feel that this is a bit long for our production but the style and layout is very clear and formal which I feel is necessary.
This another example I took of a similar sort of website, where by it hd a lot of useful tips and document for filmmakers especially in TV. Unfortunately when uploading the conversion went wrong and the layout has overlapped on the first page making it miss out the box for the scenes and crew call times. But as you can see both the call sheet examples are similar and have the same aspects needed they are just set out different ways and the top one has more detail in people and transport whereas this one has more about scene descriptions and the full teams separate call times.
I found by comparing the two I didn't have to use one or the other but by downloading them both from their website I could combine the two so I could take out the travel descriptions from the first one and the teams call times from the second one and then both call sheets hold similar details its just the second one has more distinctive layout which I feel would be clearer especially the call time and production title at the top so I will use this as my main template.
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