Cinella writes the whole call sheet from a brief and two times - run of day, shot list, kit list and a client version included. Or grab the free print-ready template below and keep doing it by hand, just faster.
Two print-ready A4 pages: the four key times, location and parking, the nearest A&E, contacts with call times, a full run of day, a shot list with tick boxes and a kit checklist. Built from the sheet working UK crews actually use - not a film-school prop with 40 fields you’ll never fill in.
Crew call, first shot, lunch and estimated wrap. These four numbers answer 90% of the questions your crew would otherwise text you the night before. Put them at the top, big.
Full address with the postcode (phones navigate on postcodes), plus where to park and where to load in. “Parking: loading bay behind the unit, buzz #4” saves more shoot-day stress than anything else on the sheet.
The section everyone skips until the day they need it. Name, address and drive time from the location. It takes two minutes to look up and it belongs on every call sheet, every shoot - it’s also what separates a professional sheet from a group chat.
Everyone on the day: name, role, mobile, and their individual call time if it differs from crew call. When the gimbal op is lost at 7:40am, nobody should be scrolling a group chat for a number.
Times down the left, what’s happening on the right: rig, shooting blocks, lunch, pickups, de-rig, wrap. It doesn’t need to be minute-perfect - it needs to exist, so everyone shares the same picture of the day.
The crew version of the sheet should carry the shots you cannot go home without and the kit that must make it into the van. Tick boxes beat memory at 6am.
Give Cinella the brief, the call time and the wrap time. It writes the full run of day, carries your shot list and kit list, keeps a clean client version in sync automatically, and exports a branded PDF with your logo on it. When the schedule changes at 9pm, you change it once - both versions update, and your client confirms the day in one tap from their portal link.
The essentials: crew call, first shot, lunch and estimated wrap times; the location with full address and parking; the nearest hospital with A&E; everyone's name, role, mobile and call time; the run of day; and ideally the shot list and kit list. If your crew can find the place, know when to arrive and know who to ring, the sheet has done its job.
Yes - it's a print-ready PDF with every section a small crew needs, and it costs nothing. We email it to you so you always have a copy, and we'll mention Cinella once at the bottom of the email. That's the whole deal.
A template still makes you write everything by hand, every shoot. Call sheet software like Cinella writes the sheet for you: give it the brief, the call time and the wrap time and it generates the full run of day, then keeps the crew and client versions in sync when things change - which they always do.
No - and that's the point. Your crew sees everything: phone numbers, kit, shots, internal notes. Your client gets a clean branded schedule with none of it, through their own portal link, and can confirm the day in one tap.
£12 a month, everything included - unlimited shoots, call sheets, the client portal and invoicing. There's a 14-day free trial with no card needed, and it's a launch price: you keep your rate for as long as you subscribe.
No. You share the call sheet as a link or a PDF - nobody on your crew or client side has to create an account or download an app.
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