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Sides

What is sides in film production?

Sides are the extract of a script containing only the scenes being shot on a given day, printed small and distributed to cast and crew on set. They are a working reference for the day's pages, not a copy of the screenplay, and are usually generated from the call sheet's scene list.

Sides also refer to the pages an actor is given for an audition, which is a different document with the same name. Context distinguishes them: on set, sides are the day's scenes; in casting, sides are the audition material.

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Reviewed 2026-08-27

Related terms

Call sheet: A call sheet is the document issued the day before each shooting day telling everyone where to be, when, and what is being shot. It carries individual call times, the scene list, the location and its parking, weather, sunrise and sunset, hospital details, and department-specific notes.
Coloured pages: Coloured pages are script revisions distributed on tinted paper so that everyone can see at a glance which draft they are holding. Each new revision takes the next colour in a fixed sequence, and only the changed pages are reissued rather than the whole script.
Fountain: Fountain is a plain-text markup format for screenplays. A Fountain file is readable as ordinary text and needs no proprietary software, but carries enough convention — capitalised scene headings, centred character names, indented parentheticals — for software to render it as correctly formatted script pages.