The New Call Sheet Industry Standard

Casper was created in 2013 by Michael Williams, Paul Silver, and Elion Olson: Excel call sheet templates that many ADs built their workflow on. A spreadsheet cannot read a shooting schedule, draft call times, merge a revised schedule or send a text. G-Casper Pro keeps the Casper layout and adds those. The AD still decides what goes out. Learn more about the team on our about page.

Most of the drafting starts from the imported schedule:

• Multi-Day Auto Call Sheet Generation: one import from Movie Magic 6 or 10, a ThinkCrew USS file, or a G-Casper or Casper spreadsheet creates a call sheet for every shoot day
• Auto-Draft Cast Call Times: drafts CALL, BLK/REH, SET and LOSE @ from the day's scene order. You approve, type over, or ignore each one
• Schedule Versioning & Non-Destructive Re-Import: a five-step wizard brings in a revised Movie Magic or USS schedule, shows every change for you to accept or deny, and saves each import as a version you can restore
• Banner Strips from Schedule Import: scene strips and banners such as Lunch, Company Move and Setup arrive in schedule order from Movie Magic and USS
• Movie Magic 10 Import: reads two built-in Movie Magic reports saved as PDF. No custom report template to install
• Movie Magic PDF Import Methodology: how the Shooting Schedule and Breakdown Sheet PDFs are matched into one import
• USS: The Universal Schedule Standard: imports the open schedule format that ThinkCrew exports
• Google Sheets Interoperability: sends the breakdown, days schedule, BG list, extras breakdown and Exhibit G to Google Sheets, and updates the same sheet as the show changes

Cast and BG:

• Minor Work Hours and Drafted Cast Times: flags a minor's saved hours against the age-group limits you set in Globals. The flag is a first check. The studio teacher has the final word
• Auto-Background: Import, Draft, and Merge: builds BG role groups from the breakdown's extras, drafts their calls, and keeps the groups in step when the breakdown changes

Crew calls without retyping them every day:

• Department Speed Schedule: one call per department, submitted to the CS Back in one go
• Crew DOOD Checkbox Scheduling: click or drag across the Crew DOOD to put crew on shoot days
• Crew DOOD View: every crew member against every day, grouped by department, with SW, W, WF, SWF and T codes that follow the call sheets
• Bulk Copy Crew Calls Across Days: copy one day's crew and calls to any other shoot days
• Relative & Offset Call Times: crew calls are stored as offsets from the general crew call, so moving the call moves everyone with it
• Call Time Wheel: the scrolling time list behind every call time cell, centered on Call, with each offset beside its clock time

A blank hospital address is easy to miss at 11 PM.

• AD Control Panel: two readiness dials on the Welcome tab and a checklist of what the production and the day are missing, each with a Fix button
• Call Sheet Warnings Overlay: screen-only flags beside the row they concern, for late lunch, early calls, minors' hours, overcalls and more
• Hot Costs in Brief: prices the IN and OUT times and MPV counts typed on the PR Back into hours, overtime and meal penalties
• SMS Opt-In Compliance: you certify consent once before texting, opt-ins from the invite page are recorded, and a STOP reply blocks the number

Colour and weather:

• G-Matrix Scene Color System: six scene colors, one per INT/EXT and time-of-day combination, set per production
• 20-Hour Granular Weather Reports: an hourly forecast at basecamp, from 6 hours before crew call to 14 hours after

Everything above is live in the Private Beta. The New Industry Standard category in the Help Center has more: layout density, info boxes, column management, the BG breakdown and the PR Back.