When we say "Set!"

[Brendan Cherry]

AD: Roll Camera

Sound: Sound has speed or 'speed'

1AC: Nods to 2AC or says, camera speed or mark it

2AC: Slates

Operator: Set (I don't say set until the 'set' is 100% ready for the actors to start acting

AD or Director: Action

 

The sets I've been on in Australia it tends to run

 

AD: Turnover

Sound: Speed

DP/1AC: Rolling/Mark it

*claps*

DP/Operator: Frame

1AD/Director: Action

[Charles Papert]

....or, the camera simply never stopped rolling between takes, which is more and more prevalent.

[Twojay Dhillon]

Just got done working on a high fashion still/motion commercial campaign. Many countries represented at the AD/DoP/Op/Director positions. Things were getting pretty out of hand on the first two takes of the day, with zero adherence/calling of the cadence. I had a quick chat with the DoP and AD (we laughed about it, no frowning or pursed lips), and from there on out it was standard US nomenclatured cadence calls. Not the most difficult thing to convey to folks, but I have a feeling the fact that we were shooting film helped the request immensely.

[Dan Ayers]

I've worked with two ASC D.P.'s who use "Frame" . They are "older" and both American, so maybe that is an "Old School" way of saying "Set".

My favorite way to get the AD and Director on the page to wait until the camera is ready is after the Director calls "Action" when you haven't called "Set" is to call "Set" when I am "Set", usually on the first line of the Actors! Usually once is enough.

[RonBaldwin]

like many others, I don't call set until everyone is ready, not just me. Sometimes there are things happening off camera that the dir/ad cannot see -- It's rude to call set when the ac isn't 100%, the actor is checking his/her lines or even if my arch nemesis the boom op isn't ready. I have only gotten flack once for me waiting until everyone was set from an ass-kissing/director-fellating/no talent hack ad (no names...ok fine, Sonia Bhalla). She seemed to think it was her job to throw everyone under the bus...I do not play that way.

[Eric Fletcher S.O.C.]

Just came off a show where the director would call action as soon as the slate cleared the frame, we did tons of Handheld, easy fix, slates were shot with the cameras tilted straight up, when the set was ready the other operator and I would frame up THEN call set, took two days to break that director of the habit

[Joe Lawry]

Turnover is used here by all 1st's... only over eager young directors call Roll camera in NZ.

 

Set and frame both get used. I find Set more related to steadicam as our frames are ever changing :-)