9 December 2025

Call sheets that protect the idea

A shot list is not a wish list. It is the order of work when the weather, the talent, or the building turns.

We write the must-have frames first: the still that prints, the shot the edit cannot live without. Everything after that is a bonus with a time attached.

Locations get a backup that is not ‘we will find a wall’. If the square is closed, the alley is already permitted.

Talent, catering, and camera department see the same document. Versioning a call sheet in three chats is how a lunch becomes a missed window.

On mixed stills/motion days the stills block is a named hour, not ‘we will grab it’. Grabbing is how the hero still is shot in leftover light.

Wrap includes a five-minute stills pull for social if the producer asked in the brief. It does not include a new concept invented at 18:40.

Fllect shoots stills and film as one observation of a thing. Grey cyc, quiet grip, finishing in Zagreb. Campaigns that need tungsten are built honestly — not warmed in the grade after the fact.

← Journal