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Managing cast

Who can do this: Free plan on your first project, Supporter on all projects. Changing talent on a call sheet needs the Edit call sheets permission.
Your actors read one line of the call sheet: their own. Put the right people on it, with the times they need, and Spell Slate sends each of them theirs. Open a day’s call sheet and scroll to Talent. The Talent table on Day 1: Elena Ruiz, Walter Boone, and Nora Whitfield as MAYA, DEL, and RUTH with status SW, and HARBORMASTER with Click to add cast and status SWF

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Where talent comes from

Talent lists the characters in the scenes scheduled that day. After you change the stripboard, click Resync Call Sheet to bring the list back in line with the day. If someone on the sheet has no scenes that day, a note above Talent names them. See Call sheets.

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Cast IDs

The ID column is each character’s Cast ID, the same number the breakdown and stripboard show, and talent is listed in Cast ID order. To change a Cast ID, see Managing characters.

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Add an actor

  1. Click Click to add cast… next to the character.
  2. Type the Actor name and Email.
  3. Click Save.
HARBORMASTER going from Click to add cast, to Sam Ortega typed in with his email, to Sam Ortega in the table They’re the character’s actor from then on, on the character’s board and on every call sheet the character is on. You can also cast a character from their board. See Managing characters.

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Status

Status is the character’s Day Out of Days code for the day:
  • SW: their first day
  • W: a day in between
  • WF: their last day
  • SWF: their only day
A code you set on the Day Out of Days report shows here too. To use a different status on this call sheet, click it and pick one. Auto goes back to the Day Out of Days code.

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Call, on set, and wrap times

Talent start with times from the day’s schedule. Click Call, On set, or Wrap to change one. Each actor’s email gives their call time at the top, then their on set and wrap times.

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Where each actor arrives

Arrival sets where each actor reports: the basecamp, the first location they’re in, or another location. See Call sheets.

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Take someone off the call sheet

Click the × at the end of their row. Resync Call Sheet puts them back if they’re still in the day’s scenes.

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Background talent

Extras are in their own section under Talent, with their own arrival and times. See Managing extras.