R+P Post 14: Our Call Sheet

For our main shoot, we produced a call sheet in order to communicate to our actors when we wanted them to arrive, a basic schedule and some contact mobile numbers for them to call if they had any problems. We felt this would make it far easier for our actors to know when and where they had to be, which made it easier to convince people to be our actors as they had all the information they needed and thus made it less of a burden for them to feature in our sequence.

Our Call Sheet

If we were to produce our call sheet again I would have included 2 further details. Firstly I would have included a basic risk assessment on our call sheet, as this would show to the actors that we had evaluated all the risks involved and had made it clear that there was little chance of them getting hurt during the production. This risk assessment would also have made the production seem more professional, which again would have made it easier to convince actors that working on our production would be worth their time. The other detail which would have been useful to include, would have been a prop and costume list personalized to each character. This would have meant that it would be less likely that an actor may arrive poorly dressed for the role or without relevant props, as they could simply refer to the list if they needed reminding, rather than waiting on a reply to a text or email from a crew member.