One More Minute
Complete Production Bible: 1-Day Call Sheet, Hero Props & Art Department Specs
| Timeline | Production Milestone & Action | Departments |
|---|---|---|
| 08:00 - 09:00 | Load-in, set dressing, and prop placement | Art, Props, Wardrobe |
| 09:00 - 10:00 | Block room geography and eye-lines | Director, AD, Cast |
| 10:00 - 11:30 | Rig soft daylight through blinds and shape negative fill | Camera, G&E |
| 11:30 - 13:00 | Shoot wide and medium dialogue coverage | Camera, Sound, Cast |
| 13:00 - 14:00 | Lunch and reset for emotional close-ups | All |
| 14:00 - 15:30 | Shoot close-ups, phone vibration beat, tissue box slide, hand-hold climax | Camera, Sound, Cast, Script Supervisor |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Shoot final photo straightening, exit line, and room silence | Camera, Art, Cast |
Set Design & Location Specs
A quiet hospital family room with a sofa, a small table, a tissue box, a water glass, and a family photo. The room should feel muted, private, and slightly worn, with faded upholstery and practical institutional finishes. The sofa fabric should read as lived-in and tired. The table must be uncluttered except for the chart, tissue box, water glass, and family photo. Blinds should cast soft, horizontal daylight bands across the room, creating a visual sense of time slowing down. Spatially, the room should allow a triangle blocking pattern between sofa, table, and standing doctor position, with enough negative space to emphasize isolation and emotional distance. Surfaces should be matte and non-reflective to keep the mood subdued and intimate.
Lighting Schematics
Tier 1: Establishing daylight through blinds, soft and diffused, with muted contrast and gentle shadow bands across the room. Tier 2: During the confrontation, slightly deepen the shadows and isolate faces with controlled bounce and negative fill so the room feels more private and emotionally compressed. Tier 3: In the final acceptance beat, soften the contrast again, letting the daylight feel warmer and quieter, with the blinds creating a calm, dignified end-state rather than a clinical one.
Sound Design & Foley
Keep the soundscape sparse and realistic: faint hospital HVAC, distant muffled corridor ambience, subtle fabric movement on the sofa, the soft buzz of the vibrating phone, the gentle slide of the tissue box, and quiet room tone that becomes more noticeable in silence. No score is needed; the emotional weight should come from breath, pauses, and the acoustic emptiness of the family room. The room should sound private, insulated, and emotionally suspended.
- ✓ • Use one real hospital-style room or a simple dressed interior with blinds to avoid expensive set builds. • Keep the entire film in one location and one time of day to minimize company moves and lighting resets. • Use practical daylight and a small bounce/negative fill package instead of a large lighting rig. • Limit coverage to a few carefully planned setups so performances stay fresh and the schedule stays short. • Use one hero phone screen insert and one hero family photo prop; avoid extra inserts that add cost without story value. • Prioritize sound recording quality over elaborate visuals, since the scene depends heavily on silence and breath. • Keep wardrobe simple and character-specific, with no continuity-heavy changes. • Shoot the emotional climax with longer takes to reduce edit dependence and preserve performance authenticity.