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Sides
Sides are the small excerpts of a script handed out for a specific purpose — the few pages an actor reads for an audition, or the scenes scheduled for a single day of shooting. Pulled from the full screenplay, sides give a performer or crew exactly the pages they need and nothing more.
In casting, sides are the selected scenes an actor prepares to audition a role — usually a page or two that show the character's range. In production, "the day's sides" are the trimmed pages covering everything being shot that day.
Either way, sides are a subset of the script generated for convenience: lighter to carry, focused on the task, and drawn straight from the locked pages so they match the document the rest of the crew is working from.