Call Sheets & Shooting Schedules

Here is the layout. Call sheets in Colombia have to communicate the same info at two different operating tempos — the global visiting crew working an English call list. The Colombian heads-of-department reading Spanish day plays. Our ADs publish bilingual EN/ES sheets through Studio Binder, Set Hero, or the producer's preferred tool, with metric units, COP per-diem calls, and DIAN tax-withholding annotations on the talent block so payroll has zero ambiguity on Friday.

Here is how the picture comes together. Each sheet carries the altitude acclimatization note for Bogotá (2,640m) or Sierra Nevada (3,000m+) shoots, the dengue/leishmaniasis prevention reminder for Pacific Chocó and Amazon (Leticia) work, and the ARL incident-reporting hotline at the bottom — non-negotiable under SG-SST. Weather blocks track Pacific wet-season patterns, Caribbean dry-season UV, Eje Cafetero afternoon storms, and the morning fog window that affects Bogotá and Manizales sunrise shoots.

Here is what we have to work with. Schedule planning factors the Colombian calendar bluntly. FICCI (Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena, the oldest in Latin America, founded 1960) and the BAM Bogotá Audiovisual Market close out hotel inventory and crew openings for their host cities. Carnaval de Barranquilla (UNESCO intangible heritage) blacks out the Caribbean coast for the four days before Ash Wednesday. Semana Santa, the December holiday window, and regional patron-saint celebrations all impose hard limits we flag in the schedule weeks before printing.

Here is the layout. Daily call sheets are pushed to crew via WhatsApp (the default Colombian production channel), email, and the producer-OK'd mobile app, with read receipts and a confirmation list the 1st AD walks before lock. Last-minute changes — a location pulled by the alcaldía, a weather hold on Tayrona's beach unit, an ARL briefing added by safety — re-publish with version tracking inside fifteen minutes, and the Spanish-speaking PA layer keeps regional crew aligned even when the visiting AD's Spanish stops at buenos días.