Call Sheet Generator
The call sheet is due tonight and the template still has last week's crew in it. The calculator above takes production details, crew list, location and shoot date and returns print-ready call sheet, sun times for the day, weather line and crew call table — computed in your browser, with no sign-up and nothing leaving your device.
Call Sheet Generator
Print/PDF outputs the call sheet only. Everything stays in your browser — no account, no upload.
What the number actually depends on
A call sheet answers five questions: who, where, when, what happens if it rains, and who to call when it goes wrong. Crews report reading it for under 60 seconds — everything beyond one page is decoration.
Sun times belong on every exterior call sheet: a December shoot day in Hamburg has 7 fewer hours of light than a June one, and the call sheet is where the crew learns that.
The gap between a number that goes into a quote and one that holds on the day is rarely the formula — it is whether the constraints were entered honestly. That is why the inputs are spelled out below.
Common mistakes
The places where the arithmetic is right and the day still falls over:
- Sending the call sheet without a weather and sunset line for exterior days
- Listing one general call time when make-up and camera need different ones
- Leaving out the nearest hospital — the one line nobody needs until everybody does
In day-to-day production
The most common call sheet failure is version drift: the schedule changes at 22:00 and half the crew shoots from the 18:00 PDF. Generating the sheet from the plan, not next to it, is the only structural fix.
The number belongs in production planning — the point where a decision is still free to change. Working it out on the shoot day is no longer calculating; it is finding out.
In TillyGen this is not a separate step: the result sits inside the plan itself, alongside the shot list, schedule and call sheet. Change a constraint and the dependent values move with it — the affected parts of the plan are flagged rather than quietly left behind.
Frequently asked
How accurate is the Call Sheet Generator?
The maths is exact; the inputs rarely are. Treat the result as a solid floor and add your buffer deliberately rather than smuggling it into the inputs — a flattered input hides the buffer from everyone who plans with it later.
Is the calculator free?
No. It runs entirely in your browser, with no sign-up and nothing transmitted. There is no usage limit and no account.
Where does this fit in production planning?
In production planning. There it is a basis for deciding; later it is only a finding.
Can I export the result?
The calculator itself only displays the value. In TillyGen it lands directly in the shot list, schedule and call sheet, and goes out as PDF, CSV or through the API to everyone working from it.
What does the calculator return?
Print-ready call sheet, sun times for the day, weather line and crew call table. The first value is the one you carry into the plan; the rest show how sensitively it reacts to the inputs.
What should I watch for in the result?
Mainly this: sending the call sheet without a weather and sunset line for exterior days. That is the mistake that most often turns a correctly calculated number into one that does not hold.