What Lives Here
Globals is one production's settings. It has two sub-tabs, Globals and Email + SMS. Every field saves as you type and reaches every call sheet on the show. Viewers see the page with the fields greyed out.
Show Name, Header and Key Personnel
General Globals holds the show name. Call Sheet / Production Report Globals holds the rest of what prints at the top of the sheets:
- Header Information: production company, production office, address, city, state and ZIP, and the office phone
- Company Logos: shown on call sheets and invite emails
- Key Personnel: a title (Director, Co-Director, 1st AD, 2nd AD, Exec. Producer, Producer, Co-Producer, Line Producer, Assoc. Producer, UPM, EP, Co-EP) paired with a person from the crew list, in the order you drag them
Phone & SMS Settings
The default country code for phone numbers, the show's time zone (set one, or auto-detect it from the location), the number texts go out from, and the SMS credits used and left. A crew member with a foreign number is fine: type the full international number with its + code.
SAG & Work Hour Globals
The SAG block feeds Exhibit G and the minor call times. The work hours feed the planned wrap and the overtime figures elsewhere.
| Field | Used for |
|---|---|
| SAG Signatory Company, SAG Prod #, SAG Contact and phone, Shooting Loc. | The header of the Exhibit G |
| Straight Time Workday, Default OT, Meal Period | The shape of a normal day |
| Default Work Hours | The three above added up. The Daily Itinerary measures its planned wrap from it. |
| Minor Work Hour Limits (SAG Standards) | Hours for Under 6, Ages 6-8, 9-15 and 16-17, plus their meal period. Auto-drafted calls for minors respect them. |
Hot Cost Globals and Overtime After Hour
Hot Cost Globals is Producer level. It sets, for crew and for drivers separately, the budgeted daily hours, two overtime thresholds, the multiplier for each band, and the first, second and third meal penalty. AD-level members see the section locked. Overtime After Hour sits below it and sets the hour after which the UPM and the 1st AD earn an additional day's pay.
Transpo, Weather and Day Numbering
Three smaller sections:
| Section | What it sets |
|---|---|
| Transpo & Lodging Globals | Prep days before Day 1 and wrap days after the last day, which set the Lodging calendar's window. Private rooms per 2-banger, rooms per cubicle trailer, stalls per honeywagon and motorhomes available, which size cast holding on the Transpo footprint. |
| Weather Alerts | When the forecast has moved far enough from the printed one to warn you. The same panel opens from Alerts on the Weather tab. |
| Prep & Wrap Numbering | P1 and W1, or -1 and +1. Both name the same days, so switching moves nothing on the board. Shoot days are always their bare number. |
Scene Colours and Report Styling
Scene Color Scheme sets the six G-Matrix colours: INT. Day, EXT. Day, INT. Night, EXT. Night, INT./EXT. Morning and INT./EXT. Evening. The defaults are white, yellow, green, blue, salmon and orange. Every strip, chip and chart in the show uses them, the Wrap included. Report Styling sets the dark and light header colours on the tables of call sheets, production reports and the Exhibit G.
Time, Call Offsets, Auto-Draft and Print
The last four sections at the foot of the page:
- Unit Settings: the hour format, AM / PM or A / P, and Fahrenheit or Celsius
- Default Call Time Offsets: where courtesy breakfast, shooting call and lunch land relative to crew call
- Auto-Draft Call Times: the switch, the Avg Day Shoot Duration, the average blocking lead and pages per minute. The day length here is also what the wrap party counts from.
- Print Settings: the page size, from US Letter to A5 or a custom size
The Email + SMS Sub-Tab
Email Template sets the email that carries the call sheet. SMS Settings sets the text. Mobile Call Sheet Layout picks what a recipient sees on opening the call sheet link: Mobile Call Info, a map-led page with the key times and parking, or Mobile Email, the full email body with the PDF pages to swipe through.