Call Sheets and Shoot Boards

Before shooting, we needed to organise what we were going to do, on which day, and what time all of us would be needed. To do this, we drew up call sheets and shoot-boards for each individual shoot day.

The call sheets were designed to help us ensure that the day was properly organised, and contributed to the creation of the shoot-board. They allowed us to know what set-ups are being done at what time, when people were needed and where (i.e. Band needed to be in make-up at 12:50). The call sheets were made by figuring out what time we wanted to start filming and end filming, while time in between was allocated depending on how much time was needed for each set-up.

The shoot-board replaces the shot-log, shoot-schedule and shot-list, so makes the day more efficient as we only have to refer to one document to understand what is happening, and also to help keep us on track. On our shoot-board, we used the images from our storyboard to visually represent what the shots are meant to look like, which has proven useful in other projects as it is clear and easily understandable, so no time is wasted.

Figuring out how much time was needed for each set-up helped in the creation of the shoot-board, as allocating time for each shot became easier, and it ensured that the schedule didn't run over the amount of time we had available.