We write the must-have frames first: the still that prints, the shot the edit cannot live without. Everything after that is a bonus with a time attached.
Locations get a backup that is not ‘we will find a wall’. If the square is closed, the alley is already permitted.
Talent, catering, and camera department see the same document. Versioning a call sheet in three chats is how a lunch becomes a missed window.
On mixed stills/motion days the stills block is a named hour, not ‘we will grab it’. Grabbing is how the hero still is shot in leftover light.
Wrap includes a five-minute stills pull for social if the producer asked in the brief. It does not include a new concept invented at 18:40.
Seacount Desk is on Rua da Prata, a ground-floor room with a yard. The book is tinned fish, tile workshops and the small rooms that rent by the week. Mornings are for the street and the hill. Afternoons are tabletop in the yard, under a silk, when the tile is too bright to be useful.