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Hi, I'm George Edelman with StudioBinder.
And today we're going to talk about staggering call times
on your call sheet.
We've gone over call sheets in the past.
And we've talked a little bit about
how you might want to call people at different times.
But the question is
why not call everyone at the same time?
And the answer to that
really comes down to
you want to maximize everyone on your cruise performance.
You don't want to waste anybody's time,
certainly not with your talent.
There are also certain rules, guidelines,
that you have to follow depending on the unions
that you're working with.
So, let's hop into our call sheet and take a look
and talk about some of the reasons you might choose to do certain things.
We'll go up top to edit call sheet.
And as we take a look,
we will see our general crew call.
One way to determine the general crew call
is what time you wrapped the night before.
Say this is day two of days three, maybe four or five days shoot.
Say there's a 12-hour turnaround
or maybe less,
maybe you're dealing with a union that says there needs to be a
10-hour turnaround.
Whatever it is, you need to be respectful of that
and that'll determine when you can start the next day.
If it's your first day, it doesn't really matter.
Now, you're going to have your crew show up
before you want camera rolling
because you obviously need a little lead time.
So let's say,
we want to get our talent on set at 9:30.
Maybe we're going to start this load in at 8:15.
Now for scene,
say it's going to be 10.
So now, you can already see how things are sort of
staggering in a domino effect from our call time.
Our call time is 8
that's when the majority of our crew is going to show up.
Our talents going to come at 9:30.
And then 10 o'clock is when we expect
to begin shooting the first scene of the day.
That gives a half-hour for
talent call, to get into makeup etc. etc.
I'm going to go further from there.
We'll look at some of the other times
that we may want to stagger,
for shooting this scene at 10:00.
Maybe we're shooting this scene at 11:15
for seven-eights of the page.
Maybe we actually need less time.
So you can see all of these sort of decision start to cascade
from that initial determination.
It`s 45 minutes for two-eighths of a page.
And then we'll decide when lunch is going to be.
Now, this may be cutting it tight,
so we can always change and make lunch 12:30.
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We`ll change that here.
Back in at 1:30.
We're realistically not going to be shooting again at 1:30
if we're back in then,
maybe 1:45
maybe even 02:00.
Looks like we can probably wrap a little earlier than seven here.
And say we're going to start loading out at six.
Now up here, I'm going to give it an estimated wrap of eight,
that's a 12-hour shoot day.
Seems like that's probably going to be more like seven.
Now, we're going to come down here and see our talent.
And make sure all of their call times line up with the changes we've made,
as we continue to stagger call times.
If we want our cast on set at 9:30,
which is this to 9:30 as well.
Can adjust these, as you can see.
We'll see right here,
this call times.
Maybe we'll just adjust a little more.
Now, obviously, this is incorrect,
if we're not calling this actor until 11:00.
It's not going to be on set later, though.
11:15.
And then as we go down, we'll see our whole crew.
So when you get to your crew`s call times,
you might want to adjust them based on
how much time they're going to need to get ready for the day,
or there may be some people in your crew
who can really determine for themselves when they should be there
because there's not going to be anything specific demanded of them.
For example,
a lot of times,
take a look here,
we`ll have producers, just be on call.
Let's say the director can come a little later,
if they wish to.
Give the crew
a little time to get started first.
Well, one our A.D. and production assistant,
and all of these other members of the crew.
On set at general crew call time .
The whole reason for being able to do this
is that you want to maximize the time you have on set and the resource
of your crew and casts energy.
You don't want them sitting around with nothing to do.
You want to call them as late as possible,
but with enough time to get prepped for the day.
That'll pretty much cover it for staggering of call times
on your call sheet.
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