# Call sheet > The plan for one shoot day: call times, the location, the scenes and pages being shot, which cast and crew are called and when, and notes such as weather, parking, and safety. Also known as: daily call sheet ## In practice The call sheet is issued the day before, usually by the assistant directors, and it is the document everyone on set actually reads. It lists the scheduled scenes by number with their page counts and cast, the time each person is due, and the location details a crew needs to arrive in the right place. Scene numbers are why it works. The call sheet points at the locked script and the day's sides by number, so a renumbered scene or a missing OMITTED slot turns tomorrow's call sheet into a puzzle. Writers delivering revised pages during production should expect them to be read against it. Writers rarely appear on a call sheet unless they are on set, but the sheet shows what a day of their script asks for: how many pages, how many locations, how many actors. It is a useful reality check on why a production asks to combine locations or trim a scene. ## Common questions ### Who makes the call sheet? The assistant directors, from the shooting schedule. It is usually issued the day before the shoot. ### What is on a call sheet? Call times, the location and address, the scenes and page counts scheduled, which cast and crew are called and when, and notes such as weather, parking, and safety information. ### How do call sheets relate to sides? The call sheet lists the day's scenes by number; the sides are the matching script pages. Both point at the same locked scene numbers, which is why those numbers must not shift. ## Related terms - [Sides](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/sides): Excerpt pages of a script prepared for a specific day, audition, or work session -- usually only the scenes and lines the actors or crew need, not the full book. - [Stripboard](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/stripboard): The production schedule laid out as strips — one per scene, carrying its number, set, day or night, length in eighths, and cast — ordered by shoot day rather than by story order. - [Day out of days (DOOD)](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/day-out-of-days): A production report that shows, for each cast member, which shoot days they start, work, hold, and finish — so a production can see how many days each actor is booked and paid. - [Scene number](https://www.inkwell.software/glossary/scene-number): A production number attached to a scene heading so every department refers to the same unit — Scene 42 stays Scene 42 after a lock, even if pages shift. --- Canonical page: