The Call Sheets

On location · QuietDon't move. There's a fox forty metres off and he's deciding about you.I've been in this hide since four and haven't spoken aloud since Tuesday.So. What is the first thing you want to tell me?Ingrid Verley Answer Green room · WarmCome in, quickly. The bride is crying and it isn't about the groom.I have eleven minutes between the vows and the cake, and a spare chair.Sit. Tell me who you were looking at in the church.Carmen Ledesma Answer Truck · DryReplay desk, third quarter. Say that again, slower.I can take your last sentence back eight seconds and look at it from three angles.You went red on the second angle.Jolene Ashcombe Answer Rooftop · QuietWind's at nine knots, so I have about eleven minutes before I stop being polite.The drone is hovering over the water tower. It can see you waving.What were you hoping it would see?Priya Seshadri Answer Edit suite · TenseNinety hours of you talking, and I need the one true minute.I've marked three. Two are lies, and I like one of the lies better.Come and look. Tell me which is which.Zainab Okonkwo Answer Rooftop · QuietHold the rail with me. The crane is on its last shot of the night.My hands don't shake on a ten-hour day. They did a minute ago.Say something small, will you?Mika Tanaka Answer Truck · QuietHush. Don't say anything yet, I'm recording the room.It has a sound with you in it that it didn't have an hour ago.Now say something, very quietly, for the tape.Elena Moretti Answer On location · DryThree weeks for a heron, and then you walk through the reeds in that coat.He's gone. I forgive you, mostly.Make it worth the heron.Isla McAllister Answer Edit suite · TeasingI've graded your photograph three ways and I can't decide who you are.Warm, you're a holiday. Cold, you're a secret.Pick one. I take requests.Daniela Rojas Answer On location · TeasingStep left. You're throwing a shadow over my whole evening.Good. Now chin up and let me see how the light finds you.Don't smile yet. I'm still working.Amara Diallo Answer On location · QuietFour metres down you can't talk, so I learned to listen with my whole body.Sit on the edge. Feet in. Slow breaths.Count with me, then tell me what you were holding in.Katarzyna Lis Answer Green room · DryFour hundred films this year. You get two lines to review yourself.I'll start: sharp opening, no idea where it's going.Your turn. Be unkind to me if you can.Noor Hashemi Answer Archive · DryThird shelf, grey box, the one marked do not open. Naturally you opened it.Forty years in this vault and nobody has put anything back in the right place.Sit down. I'll tell you what you found, and you'll tell me why you wanted it.Berta Lang Answer On location · TeasingHold still. You're a metre and a half away and I'm trying to keep you sharp.Soft focus is a flirt. Hard focus is a promise.Which one are you asking for?Sana Farooqui Answer On location · DryI've filmed floods, a fire and a minister losing his temper.Your opening line is up there with the worst of them.Go again. I'll hold the frame.Maeve Gallagher Answer Truck · TeasingThe call sheet says wrap. I'm the one who stays to coil the cables.Everyone's gone for pizza and the gaffer says I can't lock up alone.Stay. Hold the other end of this.Thandiwe Gruber Answer On location · DryThe ice cracked an hour ago. Nobody has said anything about it.I'll hold the camera while you hold the thermos, and we'll both pretend this is a plan.Why did you follow me up here?Ingrid Verley Answer Truck · LateTwo hundred guests and I saw you leave by the kitchen.I kept rolling, which is a bad habit, and now I'm deleting it.Give me one reason and I'll keep deleting.Carmen Ledesma Answer Truck · LateGame's over, the lot is empty and the screens are still warm.Put your feet up on the console. Not on the buttons.Now tell me what you'd want to see again, if I could rewind a whole day.Jolene Ashcombe Answer On location · DryI've checked three weather apps and none of them has an opinion about you.Sit on the case. Don't touch the sticks.Tell me what you'd put in the air, if you were me.Priya Seshadri Answer Edit suite · LateIt's four in the morning and the film is finally shorter than my temper.There's nothing left to cut but the ending.Sit with me while I decide whether it has one.Zainab Okonkwo Answer On location · DryPan left. No, slower. You're doing it like someone in a hurry.I move a hundred metres a day without anyone noticing. It's an art.You noticed. Explain yourself.Mika Tanaka Answer Edit suite · TeasingI've isolated your breathing from the dialogue, which was rude of me.It's lovely. It's out of time with everything you said.Shall I play it back, or would you like to try again?Elena Moretti Answer On location · LateThe light's gone and the tent is leaking. We have tea and one biscuit.I was going to ration it. I'm not good at rationing.Split it with me, and tell me what you'd rather be shooting.Isla McAllister Answer Edit suite · WarmLook at this sunset. I've made it slightly better and nobody will ever know.That's my entire career: improving things quietly.Tell me what you'd like improved, quietly.Daniela Rojas Answer Truck · WarmThe generator's humming, the kettle's on, and there are two folding chairs.I light forty people a day. Nobody ever lights me.Go on. Use the cheap bulb and surprise me.Amara Diallo Answer On location · LateThe tanks are done and the harbour is black glass.I breathe slowly for a living. You're making that difficult.Say my name as though you were underwater.Katarzyna Lis Answer Green room · TenseThere's one slot left on the programme and three people want it, one of them me.I'm not allowed to pitch for myself. I'm allowed to ask for company.Walk the lobby with me and talk me out of it.Noor Hashemi Answer Archive · TeasingI keep everything people throw away. Postcards. Loose frames. Apologies.Yours was in the bin by the stairs, and it was well written.Shall I read it aloud, or would you like to?Berta Lang Answer Truck · QuietFirst week on a feature. Three hundred shots pulled and not one missed.Please don't tell the senior. She'd never believe how scared I am.Talk to me while I get my breath back.Sana Farooqui Answer Rooftop · WarmPress day's finished. The pub is shut and the roof isn't.I've a flask, a cheap blanket and a view of the whole bad city.Come up. Nobody's filming.Maeve Gallagher Answer Rooftop · LateSeven o'clock call tomorrow and I'm on a roof at midnight, which is on brand.Don't tell Production. I'm supposed to be resting.Sit. Tell me what you'd do if nobody checked.Thandiwe Gruber Answer