call sheet

call sheet (plural call sheets)

1. (film production, television production) The production schedule for a single day, detailing every scene to be filmed, and who is needed for each of those scenes.
   • 2003, Penny Delamar, The Complete Make-up Artist:

     First, you fill out on the call sheet breakdown what episode, scene and story day you will be filming that day from the call sheet. Then you fill in from the call sheet what actors are in each scene (on the first line).

   • 2006, Cathrine Kellison, Producing for TV and Video: A Real-world Approach, page 120:

     The night before the next day's shoot, the call sheet is distributed to the producer(s), director, UPM, production coordinator, studio or network executives, and other people that the producer puts on the distribution list.

   • 2009, Ed Decter, Laura J. Burns, The One, page 14:

     Only one cast member may be listed first on the call sheet and that person is the star.

   • 2020, Christine Sciortino, Makeup Artistry for Film and Television, page 59:

     This means that once a final call sheet has been issued to crew members, depending on cast or crew turnaround, you may need to push the call half an hour later to accommodate a problem that has arisen or a delay" (Gill 128).

   • December 6 2022, Lucy Feldman, “Michelle Yeoh: Icon of the Year”, in Time‎:

     She’s done Marvel, Star Trek, Kung Fu Panda, Minions — Avatar, Transformers, and The Witcher are next. But, until Everything Everywhere All at Once, which premiered in March, she had never been No. 1 on a Hollywood call sheet.

2. A document filled out by ambulance personnel describing a call that has been made, including all presenting problems, any treatments administered, and any other relevant notes, which is passed on to the medical team at the hospital.
   • 2010, Steven Webb, Paramedic: Lights and Sirens, page 201:

     I point out here that response cars had no call sheets to complete so all the information pertaining to times on the call sheet and computer log would reflect the ambulance times, however the dispatcher would have been able to and should have made a special note that a car had been sent and its arrival time as well as any special instructions received thereafter from the response crew.

   • 2014, Pat Ivey, EMT: Beyond the Lights and Sirens:

     Bob, realizing they had forgotten to bring in the call sheet, went back to the ambulance for it.

   • 2022, President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy - U.S. Government, The Warren Commission: Investigation and Final Report:

     That is why I placed his initial on the call sheet, but when it got in there Officer Hulse had already been talking to the ambulance and was dispatching the call rather than Mr. Jackson.

3. A log kept by someone who makes telephone calls as part or all of their job, tracking the calls scheduled or made and the outcome of those calls.
   • 1999, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and the Workforce. Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Report on the Financial, Operating and Political Affairs of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, page 1176:

     On last nights call sheet in your notebook, you need to call Karen re: Denver. Its real important.

   • 2001, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform, The Justice Department's Implementation of the Independent Counsel Act, page 359:

     Although only six donors' telephone numbers appear on the residence phone records, it is probable that other donors from the October 18, 1994 call sheet received calls from the President on that date.

   • 2002, Joe Catal, Telesales Tips from the Trenches, page 7:

     Use a call sheet to track your calls.

   • 2008, Paul J. Lavrakas, Encyclopedia of Survey Research Methods: A-M, page 79:

     When a questionnaire was completed, the interviewer manually stapled the call sheet to the top of the questionnaire and then the supervisor removed that case from further data collection attempts.

4. A script or plan used by a salesperson to guide them through making their sales calls or visits.
   • 2005, Brian Sullivan, 20 Days to the Top, page 208:

     Once you get off the phone or back out into your car, open your call book and review that call sheet.

   • 2007, Stephan Schiffman, Stephan Schiffman's Sales Essentials:

     I want you to go get a piece of paper, or your sales notebook, or your call sheet, or whatever you use to write in your sales work.

   • 2011, Donald Todrin, Successfully Navigating the Downturn, page 129:

     Track how many new calls are made per day, and then come back and tell me it is impossible to improve the call sheet.

   • 2012, Tony Forster, Love is in the Air, page 24:

     The sales car's out front; the call sheet's in the front seat; the samples are in the boot and the back seat; the first stop's Middlesbrough - Noel's ill!