call sheet

Noun

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.
   • 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).2003, Penny Delamar, The Complete Make-up Artist
   • 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.2006, Cathrine Kellison, Producing for TV and Video: A Real-world Approach, page 120
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.
   • 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...2010, Steven Webb, Paramedic: Lights and Sirens, page 201
   • Bob, realizing they had forgotten to bring in the call sheet, went back to the ambulance for it.2014, Pat Ivey, EMT: Beyond the Lights and Sirens
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.
   • On last nights call sheet in your notebook, you need to call Karen re: Denver. Its real important.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...
   • 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.2001, United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform, The Justice Department's Implementation of the Independent Counsel Act, page 359
4. A script or plan used by a salesperson to guide them through making their sales calls or visits.
   • Once you get off the phone or back out into your car, open your call book and review that call sheet.2005, Brian Sullivan, 20 Days to the Top, page 208
   • 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.2007, Stephan Schiffman, Stephan Schiffman's Sales Essentials