Dad’s New Password
Complete Production Bible: 1-Day Call Sheet, Hero Props & Art Department Specs
| Timeline | Production Milestone & Action | Departments |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 - 09:30 | Load-in, art placement, and living room dressing | Art, Grip, Camera |
| 09:30 - 10:30 | Lighting rig and practicals test with ceiling fan and laptop glow | Gaffer, Camera, Electric |
| 10:30 - 11:15 | Blocking rehearsal for triangle staging and reveal beats | Director, Cast, Camera |
| 11:15 - 13:00 | Dialogue coverage: banking lesson, rules notebook, OTP exchange | Camera, Sound, Cast |
| 13:00 - 13:45 | Lunch break and reset | All |
| 13:45 - 15:00 | Reveal sequence and final TV remote beat | Camera, Sound, Cast |
| 15:00 - 16:00 | Pickups, inserts of feature phone, notebook, bank card, remote | Camera, Art |
Set Design & Location Specs
A single family living room at evening, designed as a cozy but slightly cluttered domestic arena. The sofa should be central and lived-in, with enough depth for two sons to occupy different power positions. A side table must hold the TV remote like a symbolic object of control. The laptop’s blue glow should create a cool contrast against the warmer ceiling fan light, giving the room a split emotional temperature: practical instruction versus home comfort. Textures should include soft upholstery, a slightly worn table surface, and the matte plastic of the feature phone. Spatial layering should allow Suresh to sit forward with authority, Rohan to occupy the laptop zone, and Kartik to remain off-angle with his phone camera, creating a triangle of tension and comedy.
Lighting Schematics
Tier 1: Evening domestic base light from the ceiling fan fixture, warm and soft, establishing a normal family room. Tier 2: Laptop blue spill as the key practical accent, creating a cool modern contrast on faces and the sofa. Tier 3: Controlled reaction highlights for the reveal and punchlines, using soft fill to keep expressions readable while preserving mild shadow and comedic tension.
Sound Design & Foley
Ceiling fan hum should be constant and slightly present, creating a domestic bed. Laptop clicks, feature phone taps, notebook rustle, and the soft handling of the bank card and TV remote should be crisp and comedic. Dialogue must remain clean and intelligible, with room tone kept natural and lightly echoing as a lived-in living room. Kartik’s phone recording can be hinted at with subtle interface beeps or handling noise, but never overpower the scene.
- ✓ Shoot the entire film in one real living room with practical lamps and a single laptop screen to keep costs low.
- ✓ Use one ceiling light and one motivated blue screen source for all scenes.
- ✓ Keep props minimal and story-specific: feature phone, notebook, bank card, remote, and one laptop.
- ✓ Prioritize performance and timing over coverage; the comedy depends on reaction shots, so a small camera package is enough.
- ✓ Record clean production sound carefully because the dialogue is the engine of the film.
- ✓ Use the same set dressing throughout and avoid unnecessary resets.
- ✓ Let the final reveal happen with a simple push-in rather than a complex move.