The three sheets a shoot day actually runs on. A shot list, a call sheet and a shooting schedule as print-ready PDFs. Released under CC0, so you can edit them, rebrand them, hand them to a client or put them in a course pack without asking us or crediting us.
CC0 1.0 · 3 sheets · A4 and US Letter · No signup
The pack
Each sheet is one page, ruled for handwriting on set and clean enough to hand to a client. Download the ones you need — there is no bundle to unpack and nothing to sign up for.
16 rows
Landscape, sixteen rows. Shot number, scene, shot size, camera movement, subject, sound, duration and notes — the order an assistant director reads them out in.
Fill this in the night before. On the day it is the only document that answers “what are we shooting next”, and ticking rows off it is how you know whether you are behind.
18 rows
Portrait, eighteen rows. General call, first shot, estimated wrap, location, parking, weather, nearest hospital, and a table of who is called when.
This is the one you send the night before. The nearest hospital line is not decoration — it is the field people look for when something has already gone wrong.
20 rows
Portrait, twenty rows. Time, scene, interior or exterior, location, description, cast and page count, in the order the day runs.
Order the day by location and light rather than by script order. This sheet is where that decision gets written down so nobody drives back across town at four o’clock.
Licence
These sheets are released into the public domain under CC0 1.0. Edit them, print them, put your own logo on them, include them in a paid course, hand them to a client as your own. You do not need to credit PrismPoster and you do not need to ask. Every PDF carries our URL in its footer, and removing it is also fine.
Read the CC0 licenceUsing them
They are filled in in a fixed order, and skipping a step is what turns a shoot day into an argument about what happens next.
Go scene by scene and write one row per setup, not per line of dialogue. Shot size and movement are the two columns people leave blank and then regret on the day.
Move the rows around so everything at one location happens together, regardless of script order. This is the schedule, and it is where a shoot day is won or lost.
Be honest about how long a setup takes, then add the moves between locations. If the schedule needs a twelve-hour day, you have found that out before you booked anybody.
Everyone gets the same page: where to be, when, where to park, and who to ring. Attach the schedule; keep the shot list on the monitor.
Before the shoot day
A cutaway, a product beauty shot, an establishing shot of a city you cannot afford to fly to — those rows come off the schedule entirely if you generate them instead. PrismPoster makes the footage, the images and the music, and cuts them together in the same place.
The templates stay free and CC0 whether or not you ever open an account.
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A row-per-setup list of everything the camera has to record, with the shot size, the camera movement and roughly how long each one runs. It is written before the shoot and read out during it, and it is the difference between finishing a day and discovering in the edit that a coverage shot was never taken.
The shot list is what you are shooting; the schedule is when and where. The list is written in script order and the schedule reorders it by location and light — which is why they are two sheets in this pack and not one.
For two people who have already talked it through, no. The moment a third person is involved, or a location owner, or anyone who is not in the messaging thread, one page with the address, the times and an emergency contact saves the entire morning.
Yes. They are CC0, which means public domain — edit them, rebrand them, sell a course that includes them. No credit required and no permission needed. The PDFs are flat print templates, so for heavy editing rebuild the table in your own document and keep the column order.
Both, for every sheet. US Letter for North America, A4 everywhere else. The layouts are drawn per paper size rather than scaled, so the ruled rows stay the same height on either one.
Yes, and anonymously — no email, no account, no download gate. PrismPoster is the paid studio this page sits in front of, and the templates are not a trial of it.
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