Call Sheet
The call sheet is the daily plan for one shooting day: who is called when, which scenes are shot where, plus addresses, weather and emergency contacts.
What this is about
Somewhere around dinner time the AD department sends the call sheet, and the phrase the call sheet is out closes the planning day. From that moment the paper outranks memory: if the sheet says 7:00, an earlier verbal agreement is void. Crews read the small print too — safety notes, nearest hospital, sunset time. A late or sloppy call sheet is the most reliable early warning sign of a production in trouble.
A term only helps when everyone on set means the same thing by it — so what follows is how it is used, not a dictionary definition.
What runs differently here
Where this differs from the general case:
- General crew call and individual calls differ; make-up and lighting are usually called earlier.
- Weather, sunrise and sunset, nearest hospital and safety notes are fixed components, not extras.
- Changes after sending go out as a new version and get announced loudly — silent edits cost calls.
With TillyGen
TillyGen generates the call sheet from the schedule, so a moved scene updates times and locations without retyping.
Change one constraint and the consequences travel through the whole plan: affected shots are flagged, the call sheet is regenerated, and nobody keeps working from yesterday's version.
Frequently asked
When should the call sheet go out?
The evening before, early enough that the crew can still plan travel and sleep. Many productions treat wrap of the previous day as the latest acceptable moment.
How long does it take to get started with TillyGen?
A first project takes under an hour to set up. There is no configuration phase in which templates and fields have to be defined before the tool produces anything.
Can the results be exported?
Yes — as PDF for the crew, CSV for downstream systems and through the API for anything automated. The plan stays the source; the exports are views of it.